Cricket

Australia’s Meg Lanning has been named captain of the Upstox Most Valuable Team of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 after guiding her side to the title and scoring 394 runs. Four Australians have made the team, including Player of the Tournament Alyssa Healy. The wicket-keeper-batter made two centuries in the knockout stages, including 170 in the final. The team was chosen ...

Australia won their seventh ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup with a 71-run victory over England in Christchurch. Alyssa Healy’s staggering innings of 170 saw Australia put on 356 for five as England’s bowlers had no answer to a batting masterclass, Anya Shrubsole’s three for 46 the only highlight for the defending champions. Nat Sciver once again steered England’s reply by battling ...

Meg Lanning is pleased her Australia side are nervous ahead of tomorrow’s ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 Final against England. The captain is expecting her players to draw on their nerves as well as their excitement as they look to steal England’s crown and win a seventh title in the match starting at 1pm local time at Hagley Oval. ...

Heather Knight knows history beckons for England if they emerge victorious against Australia in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 Final on Sunday. England have never won back-to-back World Cups but a win at Hagley Oval would see them achieve the feat at the fourth time of asking. More history will be made if they can beat their greatest ...

The following is the schedule of media opportunities on Sunday, 3 April at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 (not for publication): Australia and England play the final at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch starting 13h00 local time. Players from both teams will address post-match media conferences.     Link for all media conferences in Christchurch: Zoom Meeting https://icc-cricket.zoom.us/j/84457217092?pwd=NEU0d2FOYllaVU5YczdVMDhBYXdFZz09 Meeting ...

  BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) Coaching Development Programme, in conjunction with the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) delivered a series of face-to-face Coach Development events in Barbados from March 25 to 27. The events were aimed to upskill, assess and accredit local coaches and coach developers from the CWI Level 1 to Level 3 coaching ...

Yasir Shah-led Balochistan made history when they defeated defending champions Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by eight wickets at the Multan Cricket Stadium to clinch the Pakistan Cup – the final tournament of the 2021-22 domestic cricket season. This was Balochistan’s first title since the inception of the new domestic structure in 2019.     Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have already annexed the U13, U16, ...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricketers in host countries for the recent ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2022 are set to benefit from a donation of 15 bowling machines which were purchased by Cricket West Indies (CWI) for the 16 participating squads to use in their training sessions.   CWI has donated four bowling machines each to Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago, with three donated to Antigua ...

  The following is the schedule of media opportunities on Saturday, 2 April at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 (not for publication): Australia and England play the final at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Sunday. Australia will address their pre-match media conference at 13h15 local time and England will address theirs at 13h45 local time.   Link ...

The third of April, a date with destiny that both England and Australia have been marching towards in their own way. Now that day is almost here as the two sides prepare to meet in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 final. Despite having won 10 of the previous 11 World Cups between them, England and Australia will face ...