Tummy bug cripples England
England players have been struck down with a suspected stomach bug on the eve of the first Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi.
England players have been struck down with a suspected stomach bug on the eve of the first Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi.
Pakistan play England in a home Test series for the first time since 2005 starting on Thursday.
England will get their first taste of Pakistan conditions in 17 years when the first Test begins in Rawalpindi on Thursday.
England coach Brendon McCullum says Pakistan will miss injured fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi in the three-match Test series starting this week.
England have arrived in Pakistan to play three Tests for the first time in the country since 2005.
Teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed could become England’s youngest Test cricketer after being added to the squad for next month’s tour of Pakistan.
Travis Head and David Warner led from the front with a 269-run opening partnership to lead Australia to a 221-run thrashing of England at the MCG.
Australia wrapped up the three-match ODI series against England with a comprehensive 72-run win at the SCG on Saturday.
Dawid Malan scored a magnificent 134 but it was not enough to prevent England from falling to a six-wicket defeat to Australia in the first ODI in Adelaide.
New captain Pat Cummins says Australia will have a point to prove in the ODI series against England after their failure at the T20 World Cup.
In Player of the Tournament Sam Curran, and his bowling at the death, England found the final piece of the jigsaw to turn Jos Buttler’s side into T20 world champions.
Jos Buttler is reticent to call England one of the best white-ball teams ever, but the captain is confident there is more to come to cement their status as all-time greats.
England captain Jos Buttler hailed Ben Stokes as “a true match-winner” after the all-rounder’s unbeaten 52 helped steer them past Pakistan to win the T20 World Cup.
Sam Curran and Ben Stokes propelled England to a five-wicket win at the MCG.
Ben Stokes and Sam Curran starred as England beat Pakistan to win the T20 World Cup on Sunday and become cricket’s first dual white-ball champions.