Category: Cricket World Cup 2019

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Such is the eternal universality of Shakespeare’s insights, that Malvolio’s musings in Twelfth Night could easily apply to the Australian captaincy instead. If that was the case, then Aaron Finch would certainly fall into the third of those categories. Incidentally, Malvolio’s preceding line is “be not afraid of greatness” and that neatly epitomises Finch’s attitude after having the role thrust upon him last November following Steve Smith’s year-long ban and the struggles of his immediate successor…

VINODE MAMCHAN (England) West Indies captain Jason Holder is calling on his team to be more consistent in moving forward. The West Indies had their chances of making the semi-finals of the World Cup slip through their hands yesterday when they went down to a heart-breaking loss at the hands of New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester. Chasing 292 for victory, the West Indies slipped to 160 for seven before Carlos Brathwaite made staged a remarkable recovery with a hundred to take them to 286 all out with one…

MANCHESTER: The swashbuckling Carlos Brathwaite and Chris Gayle did their brutal best to upstage him but, ultimately, it was Kane Williamson who was the match-winner as New Zealand and West Indies combined to produce an ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup thriller. Skipper Williamson dug his New Zealand side out of a huge hole with a match-winning knock at Old Trafford that showed precisely why he is ranked alongside Virat Kohli, Steve Smith and Joe Root as the finest batsmen of the modern era. Put into bat after losing the toss,…

Haris Sohail batted with a point to prove, while Mohammad Amir has a glint in his eye back, according to coach Mickey Arthur after the duo led Pakistan to a vital victory over South Africa. With both teams’ ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 knockout chances on the line, Pakistan came out firing as Haris – playing only his second match of the tournament after being preferred to Shoaib Malik – blasted a brilliant 89 off 59 balls. That helped lead his side to 308/7 from their 50 overs and…

LEEDS: Lasith Malinga didn’t even take his jumper off for this latest masterclass. In the white-hot heat of a must-win ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup game – against the tournament hosts and world’s No.1 side no less – the great man remained predictably ice cold. And while the midriff may be a little more rotund, the ambling run-up slower than ever, and the beard flecked with grey – there remains no sight in world cricket quite like Malinga in full flight. The slower balls, the yorkers and the short stuff…

Leeds (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Jofra Archer moved joint top of the World Cup bowling charts as England restricted Sri Lanka to 232-9 in a group match at Headingley on Friday. The fast bowler took 3-52 — his fifth three-wicket haul in six matches this World Cup — to join Australia’s Mitchell Starc on 15 wickets. Fellow quick Mark Wood followed up with 3-40. Sri Lanka’s total represented something of a recovery after a collapse to three for two. Angelo Mathews’ painstaking 85 not out helped them bat their full…

NOTTINGHAM: The 381/5 that Aaron Finch’s Australia amassed in Nottingham, in what proved a 48-run victory over a spirited Bangladesh side, set up a match featuring more runs – 714 – than we’ve ever witnessed before at a single ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup encounter. Built upon David Warner’s fine tournament-high 166, where he became the only man ever to record two 150s in the competition, this was the second highest total the five-times champions have ever accumulated at any World Cup, also a figure that only England have bettered…