Ricky Ponting believes Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma aim for the 2027 ODI World Cup. Both players are performing well in IPL 2026, with Kohli scoring 542 runs and Rohit showing improved fitness.
1st ODI: England, 211-9, bt New Zealand, 210, by 1 wktCaptain guides long tail to low targetAfter all the hype about England’s biggest summer, it got off to an underwhelming start at Chester-le-Street on Sunday, as they limped to a one-wicket win in the first one-day international against New Zealand, chasing just 211. Only a calm rearguard effort from the stand-in captain, Charlie Dean, who finished unbeaten on 31 and valiantly marshalled England’s long tail, enabled them to crawl across the line.England played exactly the way you might expect from a team who have gone 194 days without playing an international match (their last outing was the World Cup semi-final in October). First, they made a spate of fielding errors, costing them precious runs in a low-scoring thriller. Then they subsided to 149 for six, after Emma Lamb, Amy Jones and Dani Gibson all holed out to gleeful fielders. Continue reading...
Fifa is developing a new protocol to restrict domestic league games played in foreign countries, limiting each league to one such match per season and requiring approval from multiple stakeholders, including a potential Fifa veto.
