Category: Sport

David Warner has avoided surgery on his injured groin but is now racing against the clock to play in the first Test of the summer. Warner went down in Sunday night’s ODI series-clinching win with scans confirming a strain that will keep him out of the white-ball matches. He has been replaced in the Twenty20 […]

The death of Diego Maradona provided another reminder that life is seldom simple for the sporting superstar. Maradona was obviously a footballing genius, whose later life was, by all accounts, chaotic. In 1986, at the age of 25, the brilliance of his feet, his vision and his deception led to Argentina winning the World Cup. […]

The continuation of the World Test Championship beyond the final next year appears to be in doubt after Greg Barclay, the newly elected chair of the International Cricket Council, questioned whether the competition is fit for purpose. It was hoped the two-year league cycle, one that culminates in a showpiece Test between the top two […]

Jofra Archer will sign off from England’s tour of South Africa after Tuesday’s final Twenty20 at Newlands and could see this rest period extended into February amid thoughts of allowing him to miss the two-Test series in Sri Lanka. The 25-year-old fast bowler is one of three players to feature in the recent Indian Premier […]

The argument for playing one-day matches before a Test series has always been straightforward. You have an entree before the main. For spectators, shorter matches rouse the appetite. For players, it follows the principle of building up training loads, working their way into the most demanding format a day at a time. On both sides […]

Cricket Australia has hit back at the Seven Network, claiming it is talking the game down after the broadcaster lodged paperwork in the federal court. In an extraordinary 24 hours that puts at risk their $450m deal, the free-to-air broadcaster on Monday evening lodged an application to see emails between CA, the Board of Cricket […]

It was a bonfire of bowling figures in Cape Town on Tuesday as, a year out from the World Cup, Dawid Malan’s unbeaten 99 from 47 balls took England to the top of the Twenty20 rankings with a nine-wicket victory. South Africa looked to have given themselves a sniff of avoiding a 3-0 clean sweep […]