Poor things, maybe they give up their status (which should have been stripped)
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I think itâs great they made the semis⊠Just a shame they lost so heavily⊠The only thing i donât like about them is their government.
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Englandâs title defence is over after they lost their second semi final to India by 68 runs in Guyana.
The win was sweet revenge for India, which got hammered by England by 10 wickets in the 2022 World Cup semifinal at Adelaide Oval.
Chasing 172 for victory, England made a fast start, but lost their batters at regular intervals. No one scored higher than 25. Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav each took three wickets.
Earlier, India made 7/171 from 20 overs, thanks mainly to captain Rohit Sharma who smashed 57 off 39 balls, and Suryakumar Yadav (47 off 36).
South Africa will play India in the final on Saturday local time.
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India beat South Africa by seven runs in the final in Bridgetown, Barbados, to win their second T20 World Cup title, 17 years after claiming the inaugural tournament.
After winning the toss and choosing to bat first, India struck early trouble at 3/34, before player of the match Virat Kohli (76 off 59) and Axar Patel (47 off 31) put on 72 for the fourth wicket. After Patel was dismissed, Kohli added 57 for the fifth wicket with Shivam Dube (27 off 16). India eventually finished on 7/176 after 20 overs.
Playing in their first ICC tournament final, South Africa lost two early wickets but Quinton de Kock, Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klassen and David Miller steadied the ship. Klassen and Miller blasted 24 runs in the 15th over, and the Proteas were within sight of victory at 4/151 with five overs to go, but Indian bowlers led by Jasprit Bumrah (player of the series) fought back, slowing down the run rate and taking the crucial wickets of Klassen and Miller.
After the match, Kohli and captain Rohit Sharma announced their retirement from T20 internationals.
India will co-host the T20 World Cup in February-March 2026 with Sri Lanka.
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I will wonder if the Indian Pakistan match will take place in Sri Lanka?
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When India/Bangladesh/Sri Lanka hosted the 2011 ODI WC, the IND v PAK game was played in India.
Not sure if/how things would have changed to make that not possible now or in the future.
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No chance unless thereâs visa issues. Ahmedabad most likely.
The team of the ICC Menâs T20 World Cup 2024 (in batting order) is:
Rohit Sharma (captain) - India
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper) - Afghanistan
Nicholas Pooran â West Indies
Suryakumar Yadav - India
Marcus Stoinis - Australia
Hardik Pandya - India
Axar Patel - India
Rashid Khan - Afghanistan
Jasprit Bumrah - India
Arshdeep Singha - India
Fazalhaq Farooqi â Afghanistan
12th player: Anrich Nortje - South Africa
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On the first anniversary of Jonny Bairstowâs controversial stumping at Lordâs, former England captain Joe Root has admitted he might well have taken the same action as his Ashes rival had he been faced with a similar scenario.
Englandâs players have had their say on the pivotal moment of last yearâs drawn campaign â when Australia keeper Alex Carey threw down the stumps with Bairstow ambling carelessly out of his crease â in a three-part documentary series âThe Ashes 2023 | Our Takeâ.
The series, produced and aired by England and Wales Cricket Board, provides the counterpoint to Cricket Australiaâs latest edition of The Test with the central characters of the incendiary second Test at Lordâs revealing new insights.
Joe Root said:
âJonny will hate me saying this, but if you stay in your crease you canât get given out can you?â
(The three episodes of The Ashes 2023 | Our Take is now streaming on the ECB official website, but you will need a registered account to see them)
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WOW. What a debut for Gus Atkinson! 7/45 (12 - 5 - 45 - 7): third best England debut figures.
Nice to see the return of the wooden-coloured stumps as well.
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England thrashed West Indies by an innings and 114 runs at Lordâs today, in James Andersonâs final test. He took four scalps in this match to finish on 704 wickets. Gus Atkinson grabbed another five wickets (5/61) in the Windiesâ second innings to claim player of the match honours.
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Amazing feat by Anderson to last 188 Test matches for his 704 wickets (just four behind Warnie).
Him and Stuart Broad are well ahead of the next highest pace bowlers, McGrath at 124/563 and Courtney Walsh 132/519 (matches/wickets).
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A new-look womenâs domestic season will get underway in September, while the new T20 league will provide the ideal warm-up to WBBL|10
The new womenâs domestic T20 tournament will be staged across Sydney and Adelaide in the lead-up to Weber WBBL|10 in October and will be dubbed the âT20 Spring Challengeâ, Cricket Australia has confirmed.
CA today revealed the full domestic schedule for the 2024-25 summer, including both the T20 Spring Challenge and the 2024-25 edition of the Womenâs National Cricket League.
The new nine-team T20 competition â created to ensure there would be no overall reduction in womenâs domestic games following the shortening of the WBBL â features teams aligned with the eight Big Bash clubs along with the ACT.
View the full T20 Spring Challenge schedule here
View the full 2024-25 WNCL schedule here
Australiaâs leading male players will have a rare chance to pit their red-ball skills against one another, with the Sheffield Shieldâs critical role in priming Test stars for their bid to wrestle the Border-Gavaskar Trophy off India revealed today.
Cricket Australia has announced four Shield rounds will be played before the Test summer opener against India on November 22, including the first two in a window free of any overlapping international commitments.
Unlike the three previous years that have seen white-ball World Cups run into November, there is clear air in Australiaâs international program through the entire month of October when the Sheffield Shield season gets underway following an opening blitz of domestic 50-over matches.
Australiaâs limited-overs tour of the United Kingdom ends on September 29. The national side are then not back in action until a three-match ODI and T20I home series against Pakistan from November 4-18.
None of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc or Steve Smith have played a single match in any of the previous three Shield seasons, while other leading Australian players have also seen windows to turn out for their states shrink amid cricketâs global schedule squeeze.
Domestic access to major international grounds improves as the season progresses. Only two of the first 12 Shield games will be hosted by a current Test ground (MCG and Adelaide Oval to host), while the first 11 one-dayers are all being played at secondary venues.
But from mid-November there is a solid run of matches at the MCG (which hosts a second Shield match before Christmas, plus the Australia A-India A game), the SCG, Adelaide Oval and the Gabba (three Shield matches each for the season) either side of the blockbuster menâs and womenâs international fixtures.
Perthâs Optus Stadium is not hosting any domestic cricket outside of the KFC BBL with WA hosting all their games at the WACA Ground, likewise with Tasmania at Blundstone Arena.
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The fixture for the menâs One-Day Cup (which doesnât have a naming sponsor) shows that there will be two matches featuring neutral teams: WA v SA in Sydney on September 24, and Tasmania v QLD in Melbourne on September 25. Otherwise it is a traditional home and away fixture.
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Between Tasmaniaâs match against Victoria on the 23rd and Queenslandâs game against the Vics on the 27th.
Same with this one: WA play NSW in the season opener on September 22 and SA play on the 26th. (all three at Cricket Central)
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Southwick and Shoreham, a West Sussex-based cricket club formed in 1790, has outlawed the high-scoring shot after one neighbour threatened to call the police for damage done to their property by balls flying over the boundary.
Damage to windows, cars and sheds has reportedly been caused by players who have smashed the ball over the boundary rope at the small ground.
Now, the club have warned batters that the first six they hit will not count for any runs and, if they strike a second during their innings, they will be out.
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I live opposite a sports oval where cricket is played in summer, and a very big straight six may smash my front windows. Thankfully Glenn Maxwell wonât be visiting Bungendore any time soon 
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