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Jansen and Harmer take South Africa closer to 2-0 sweep of India

The visitors have a cushion of 522 runs to pick up the eight wickets they need on the final day of the Guwahati Test

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Graham Thorpe’s widow says he would be alive if ECB had offered more support

Cricketer killed himself after period of depressionWidow said remote support offered was ‘woeful’Graham Thorpe’s widow believes he would still be alive if there had been more support from the England and Wales Cricket Board after he left his coaching role with the governing body.Thorpe – one of the…

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Australia rolls out red carpet to England fans with newfound time on their hands

Last-minute side trips the norm for fans in Bazball-eraCricket Australia faces $4m shortfall after two-day TestRegional centres are rolling out the red carpet to travelling England cricket supporters with newfound time on their hands, and last-minute side trips are becoming the norm for the Barmy A…

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India and Pakistan to play on February 15 in men's T20 World Cup

ESPNcricinfo has learned that USA, Namibia and Netherlands are the other teams in the India-Pakistan group

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Travis Head’s devastating knock gives Australia’s selectors a dilemma

Test-winning century and Usman Khawaja’s bad back make strong case for the stand-in opener to lead Australia’s innings againAccidents do not come much happier. Usman Khawaja’s mid-game back problem was annoying for the player and potentially damaging for his team, until it wasn’t. Clearing out the …

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Jansen too hot for India as SA start dreaming of series sweep

Jaiswal's 58 and Washington's 48 the only bright spots for India, with Jansen's short-ball brilliance causing trouble

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England batters opt out of pink-ball warm-up match despite first Ashes Test failures

Only three fringe players will go to CanberraRest of squad to have extra sessions at the GabbaTo hell with the optics was the message from England on Monday after confirmation that none of the players who collapsed to the shattering two-day defeat in the first Ashes Test will change tack and travel…

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England plot route to Ashes recovery as Mark Wood admits they were ‘hit hard in round one’

Nervous flyer considered driving from Perth to BrisbaneFast bowler says team was shellshocked after first Test lossMark Wood has considered driving from Perth to Brisbane – a journey of 2,500 miles (4,000km) over four days – just to fill the extra time created by the chastening start to Englan…

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Does Travis Head’s knock deserve to be among the greatest Ashes innings? | Martin Pegan

The Australian did not make the Guardian’s recent list of the top 100 Ashes players, but his Perth heroics sit comfortably alongside the series’ best individual innings everCometh the hour, cometh Travis Head. The always swashbuckling but recently out-of-sorts middle-order batter put his hand up an…

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Ashes Weekly: Australia wins and England collapses in the first Test - podcast

Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and Jim Wallace to discuss Australia’s humbling defeat of England in the first Test in Perth that ended three days earlyRead more: Continue reading...

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Australia not guaranteed to pick Usman Khawaja for second Ashes Test even if injury-free

Opener dealt with back spasms in Perth as Travis Head excelled Josh Hazlewood’s injury not bad enough to sideline him for seriesAustralia coach Andrew McDonald has failed to guarantee Usman Khawaja will be selected for the second Ashes Test, even if the under-pressure veteran opener is fit, while …

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Dire not fire: England’s Ashes confidence seems misplaced after two days | Geoff Lemon

Ben Stokes’s side had been more bullish than past teams to tour Australia, but history implies another belting is comingAs an Australian, even one lacking in cricket parochialism, it’s flat to sit around the Perth CBD city centre on what should have been the third day of the opening Ashes Test but …

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Rahul to lead in ODIs against South Africa in Gill's absence; Pant back

Jasprit Bumrah was rested while Shreyas Iyer and Hardik Pandya continue to recover from their injuries

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England must avoid Perth 2025 becoming the new Adelaide 2006 | Ali Martin

Losing the first Test to Australia by eight wickets after being 105 ahead with one man out could derail the entire tourStuart Broad was a highly meme-able cricketer and it turns out that talent now extends into commentary. As Joe Root chopped Mitchell Starc on to his stumps during England’s subside…

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Confident McCullum ‘planning how to bounce back’ after England’s Ashes flop

Coach asks fans to keep faith despite two-day defeat‘We’ll head to Brisbane with high expectations’Brendon McCullum has called on England fans rocked by the team’s calamitous two-day defeat by Australia in the first Ashes Test to “keep the faith”, insisting the team’s only chance of turning the ser…

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Muthusamy ton, Jansen 93 put South Africa in dominant position

No team has lost a Test in India after scoring as many as South Africa's 489

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England collapse and Travis Head steals the show – Ashes Weekly podcast

Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and Jim Wallace to discuss a humbling defeat for England in the first Test in Perth that ended three days early Continue reading...

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Two-day Test could cost Cricket Australia millions in lost revenue after Travis Head brings swift end

Aggressive play from both sides causes first Ashes Test to end on day twoHead said he felt ‘sorry’ for fans who could no longer come to day threeJust weeks after forecasting a record year ahead, Cricket Australia is facing a multimillion dollar drain from the rapid-fire two-day Ashes opener.A combi…

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Travball 1-0 Bazball: Head’s big numbers add up to a damning zero for England | Geoff Lemon

Australia’s bold call as replacement for creaking Usman Khawaja in second innings set up a Test-winning 69-ball ton, the second-fastest in Ashes historyIn short, England tried to play a certain style of Test cricket. Travis Head succeeded at it. As his numbers grew on the second afternoon here, wha…

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‘Shellshocked’ Stokes urges England to move on from mauling in first Ashes Test

Head’s century gives Australia eight-wicket victoryStokes: ‘Let emotions in but get rid of them quickly’Ben Stokes has warned his England players not to wallow in the pain of losing to Australia inside two days. A hotly anticipated Ashes series got off to a catastrophic start in Perth and he said t…

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Kuldeep three-for gives India edge on flat pitch

South Africa finish the day on 247 for 6 after opting to bat in Guwahati, the newest venue in Test cricket

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Australia v England: Head blasts hosts to eight-wicket Ashes win in first Test inside two days – as it happened

An astonishing 83-ball 123 from Travis Head shattered England, who lost the first two-day Ashes Test since 192143rd over: Australia 131-9 (Lyon 4, Doggett 6) And on it goes for Doggett. Another clunky drive, this time through mid on, gets him back for a second run. Fourth ball of t…

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Zak Crawley’s awkward prod sends England down another terminal spiral | Simon Burnton

Team refuse on a point of principle to rein themselves in but latest batting collapse lays bare glaring weaknessesIt is the UK that is living through a cold snap, but in balmy Perth they were playing in a snow globe. The scenery was static, solid, but everything else was constantly getting shaken u…

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Travis Head powers Australia to humbling Ashes Test win over England inside two days

1st Test, D2: Australia, 132 & 205-2, bt England, 172 & 164Opener’s devastating 123 seals eight-wicket victoryThe news from Perth is that the catalogue of great English calamities in Australia has a brand new entry. For the first time in 104 years an Ashes Test match has been wrapped up ins…

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Mystery pitch adds to intrigue in Guwahati's Test debut

The best India can hope for is to finish with honours even, while world champions South Africa have a chance to make it a second series defeat for India in their last three

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England’s fab five bully Australia’s finest with faultless display of raw aggression | Simon Burnton

By the time Mark Wood replaced Jofra Archer the only thing Steve Smith seemed to know for certain was that he wanted to be at the non-striker’s endAfter freewheeling at increasing pace for 16 giddy months, the Ashes hypemobile had to run out of road. But instead of letting it come to a juddering ha…

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Sports quiz of the week: Ashes sledging, Arsenal v Spurs and a young world No 1

Have you been following the big stories in football, rugby, tennis, cricket, basketball, darts and other mystery sports? Continue reading...

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Bangladesh women's tour of India in December postponed

A BCB spokesperson confirmed the news, saying that the board has received a letter from the BCCI saying that the white-ball series will be scheduled at a later date

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Gill ruled out of Guwahati Test, Pant to lead India

Shubman Gill "will head to Mumbai for further assessment of his injury," BCCI says in a media statement

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Deepti, Wolvaardt, Ecclestone, Healy in marquee set to kick off WPL 2026 mega auction

A total of 277 players (83 overseas) will vie for a maximum of 73 slots (23 overseas) in the auction in Delhi on November 27

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Gill set to miss Guwahati Test against South Africa; Pant to stand in as captain

India's Test captain has been advised more rest to avoid recurrence of neck spasms

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What type of pitch will India want in Guwahati?

A red soil surface at a new Test venue, an early start, and the possibility of bad light in the evening awaits India and South Africa

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Fixtures for Men's Under-19 World Cup 2026 confirmed; Harare Sports Club to host final

Tanzania will be making their debut in the competition, which will also see Japan featuring in it for the second time

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Mitchell replaces Rohit as No. 1 ranked ODI batter

This marked just the second time that a New Zealand batter has occupied the top spot, following Glenn Turner's reign in 1979.

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Tamil Nadu split coaches mid-season after Ranji Trophy struggles

Senthilnathan will remain in charge of the red-ball team. Venkataramana has been brought to coach the white-ball team

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Sangakkara confirmed as Royals head coach and director of cricket

Vikram Rathour has moved up from batting coach to assistant coach in the back room that also includes Shane Bond, Trevor Penney and Sid Lahiri