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South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt says test cricket will always be the pinnacle of the sport and believes the women's game needs to be a showcase for more red-ball matches at the elite level.
Australia's T20I captain Mitchell Marsh has been cleared to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season for his new team, Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), as a batter-only. Despite missing the Champions Trophy due to a back injury, he is set to travel early next week. Marsh was ruled out of the ODI tour of Sri Lanka and the Champions Trophy on January 31 due to "lower back pain and dysfunction", ending his domestic season. The issue, linked to a disc problem he had managed since Australia's limited-overs tour of the UK in September 2024, saw him undergo rest and specialist treatment in early February.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that the 2025 Women's ODI World Cup Qualifier will be held across two venues in Lahore from April 9-19. Six teams will compete for two places in the main event to be held in India in October-November. Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, along with hosts India, have already qualified for the World Cup by virtue of finishing in the top six of the 10-team ICC Women's Championship (2022-25). The sixth edition of the Women's ODI World Cup Qualifier will see teams from four Full Members - Bangladesh, Ireland, Pakistan, and the West Indies - compete with Associate nations Scotland and Thailand in the 15-match tournament.
Australian cricket team star pacer Mitchell Starc believes that India had a clear advantage during the Champions Trophy 2025 as they played at just one venue. India played all of their matches in Dubai after the government did not allow the cricketers to travel to Pakistan for the competition. The 'hybrid' nature of the competition sparked a lot of criticism among the experts with some claiming that India had an 'unfair advantage'. During a recent interaction, Starc praised the Rohit Sharma-led side for their brilliant title triumph but pointed out that the lack of travel did help them when compared to other teams.
When previewing the International Cricket Council’s 2025 Champions Trophy for Arab News, Azeem Rafiq felt that India started as slight favorites. As the tournament progressed, it became apparent that several factors underlined that initial assessment. India’s superiority and team cohesion was sufficient to achieve an unbeaten route to the final in which a tenacious New Zealand was narrowly beaten.
Australia Test opener Usman Khawaja has opted out of Queensland's upcoming Sheffield Shield match against South Australia, where a win would seal their spot in the final. Khawaja was not named in Queensland's 14-man squad after the opener had flagged that he only wanted to play one of the two Shield matches that followed his return from Sri Lanka. Queensland have announced the squad for this week's must-win Sheffield Shield match against South Australia in Adelaide, with skipper Marnus Labuschagne returning to the line-up, following Australia's Champions Trophy campaign, to replace Khawaja.
Pakistan team arrived in Christchurch on Thursday ahead of their T20I series opener against New Zealand on March 16. Pakistan are set to play five T20Is and three ODIs during their three-week tour. It will be Pakistan's first white-ball series after a debacle performance in the home ICC Champions Trophy where they failed to win a match and faced an early exit from the tournament. Pakistan lost to New Zealand and arch-rivals India before their match against Bangladesh was washed out due to rain in Rawalpindi.
India delivered a stellar performance on the second day of the World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2025 with Rinku Hooda emerging as the standout star in the men's javelin events. Rinku clinched the gold medal in the F46 category with an impressive throw of 60.26 meters, continuing his golden streak after his recent triumph at the 22nd National Para Athletics Championships in Goa and a silver medal at the fourth Asian Para Games.