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Usman Khawaja expects to be dropped from Australia’s ODI team the moment Aaron Finch is fit after a finger fracture, despite his Man of the Match-winning turn against Ireland in the opening match of the South Africa tour.Clearly benefiting from conditions more familiar than those witnessed recently in Sri Lanka, Khawaja stroked his way to an unbeaten 82 in the company of David Warner and Steven Smith. While hopeful the innings meant a turnaround from his wretched times in Sri Lanka, Khawaja had no illusions about where he now stood in the limited-overs order of preference.”You can never count your chickens in cricket or in life, you can’t get too far ahead,” he said. “I’m only here because Shaun Marsh hurt a finger and Finch was out with a broken finger as well, so I got an opportunity opening the batting. To get out there and be Man of the Match first game of the tour is a really nice feeling.”Nice to get out there early on, I enjoy opening the batting in shorter form cricket, so it was good fun and with Davey at the other end going berserk it made life a lot easier.”It was a tough time over there [in Sri Lanka], it’s been a tough couple of months. So from an individual point of view it’s nice to get out there and score some runs. We played some really good cricket the back half of Sri Lanka, but I still didn’t contribute the way I wanted to contribute over there, so I had a tough time there, but glad I could contribute to a win first up here.”The Australians were quickly into a groove against Ireland, and now face a South Africa side shorn of AB de Villiers due to injury. Khawaja said it was useful to pick up the winning habit instantly in South Africa, and acknowledged the hosts would have to be weakened by de Villiers’ enforced absence.”We won and that’s the main thing,” Khawaja said. “You want to win as much as you can and keep reaffirming that winning feeling. Winning is a habit, it’s a cliche but it’s true, the more you win, the more natural it becomes. Every game you play we want to win every time, whether it’s a dead rubber or a final, because that’ll keep us in good stead for really close games.”I don’t know who’s going to take over [AB’s] role but they’ve got big shoes to fill, he’s one of the best batsmen in the world. Looking at it from that point of view it’s never nice to see a player not play, especially someone like AB because he brings a lot of people through the gates and that’s what it’s all about in the end. But he’s a big player for them, so they are weakened, but South Africa have a lot of depth.”

Kuldeep Yadav’s 5 for 55, the bowler’s maiden first-class five-for, spliced through the heart of India Green’s line-up on the third day of the Duleep Trophy match to render an already tough chase of 497 all but impossible

Arun Venugopal25-Aug-2016
ScorecardFile photo – Kuldeep Yadav combated dew to claim his maiden first-class five-for against India Green on Thursday•ICCAfter seam bowlers and batsmen aced the pink-ball test on the first two days, it was the spinners’ turn to join the party. Kuldeep Yadav not only turned up, but did a merry jig too, as he spliced through the heart of India Green’s line-up to render an already tough chase of 497 all but impossible. His maiden first-class five-for reduced India Green to 217 for 7, still 280 runs adrift of the target, after India Red had galloped to 486 in the afternoon.India Green were in a reasonable position at 184 for 4 before Kuldeep struck twice in the space of five overs to dismiss Saurabh Tiwary and Sandeep Sharma, leaving captain Suresh Raina as the sole recognised batsman going into day four. Kuldeep did not have everything going his way as he had to combat the dew – he admitted to finding it “very difficult” to grip the wet ball – and two ball changes which, according to Robin Uthappa, helped the batsmen as the ball came on to the bat quicker.Kuldeep also played a useful hand with the bat, as his 49-run partnership for the eighth wicket with Anureet Singh supplemented Gurkeerat Singh’s robust 82 off 96 balls. His performance also overshadowed fellow wristspinner Shreyas Gopal’s skillful show, which had earned the latter five wickets.While the eventual score might bear little trace of it, India Green’s pursuit initially acquired a sturdy set of wheels as they soared to 52 for 0 in six overs. With Nathu Singh and Anureet unable to find swing or lateral movement, Uthappa and Jalaj Saxena made the right noises. While Uthappa scorched drives down the ground, Saxena got away with whips that saw his bat descending in a risky, angular arc.India Red wrested some control through Ishwar Pandey, who operated on a run-drying line, and bowled Saxena as he attempted to guide a straight ball. It wasn’t until the 15th over that Kuldeep was introduced, but all seemed well at that stage for India Green with Uthappa sustaining the initiative. Kuldeep, however, deceived Uthappa with a ball that went with the angle and the batsman edged it to first slip. Two balls later, Rajat Paliwal was lbw after he pre-empted a googly only to get a chinaman.While Uthappa handled Kuldeep relatively easily, what was less noticeable was Parthiv Patel’s struggles against the chinaman bowler – he managed only two runs off the 47 balls he faced from Kuldeep in both innings, and fell to the bowler on both occasions. In the 27th over, Parthiv hung back to a fast-ish googly that skidded on to catch him in front of the stumps; the previous ball, he had thrust out a diffident prod to another googly.Suresh Raina also started off nervously against Kuldeep. At one point he was harried into swishing across the line with no foot movement. But, along with Tiwary, who had scored a fifty on the second day, Raina cobbled up a 54-run stand for the fifth wicket, only for Kuldeep to wreck the innings with his late blows.That the pink ball retained its shine helped Kuldeep get the ball to skid on, although the fact that there were two instances of the ball losing shape – in the 19th and 32nd overs – might be a worrisome aspect.In the afternoon, India Green might have reconciled to copping another round of brisk pummelling had rain not made its now-customary appearance. In a little over an hour, India Red had jogged along to 67 runs in 14.4 overs, although India Green had mitigated things somewhat by removing Abhinav Mukund and KB Arun Karthik.It was after the early, rain-enforced tea break, however, that India Green, aided by Shreyas, looked like they were in control for the first time in the innings. With Sandeep Sharma and Ashok Dinda doing little to curb Gurkeerat’s scoring-rate, Raina turned to Shreyas, who showed his variations while cutting through the India Red middle order.Gurkeerat had a jolly good run up to that point, camping in his crease, and either guiding or slashing the seamers behind square. Four overs into the second session, Shreyas sent down a delivery that would also define Kuldeep’s performance later in the night: the ball veered in, dipped and turned away from Gurkeerat, who had lumbered forward and lost his balance as Parthiv quickly swiped the bails off. Not long after, Shreyas had Akshay Wakhare lbw, but Anureet and Kuldeep frustrated India Green before the side was bowled for 486.

Middlesex 294 for 7 (McCullum 110, Malan 70, Ingram 3-38) beat Glamorgan 266 (Ingram 85, Rudolph 45, Fuller 3-53) by 28 runs
ScorecardDawid Malan enjoyed a good day after his England call with runs and wickets•Getty Images

Brendon McCullum hit 110 off 85 balls and Dawid Malan produced a telling all-round display, scoring 70 and taking two wickets, the day after his England call-up as Middlesex secured a 28-run victory against Glamorgan in Cardiff.Despite another masterful innings from Colin Ingram, who scored 85 from 73 balls, Glamorgan were beaten for the first time although they remain top of the table ahead of their break from this competition before resuming in the first week of August.Middlesex, who were put in to bat on a good pitch, made a respectable 294 for 7, but after an opening partnership of 176 in 27 overs between McCullum and Malan, they would have expected to have reached a total in excess of 350.On the ground where he scored 160 on his Championship debut for Glamorgan against Leicestershire 10 years ago, McCullum was soon into his stride, striking boundaries on both sides of the wicket, but he was reprieved on 49, when a leading edge was dropped off Craig Meschede at mid-off.He then raced to his first century for Middlesex, but after scoring 110 from only 85 balls with 11 fours and five sixes he struck a full toss to long-off.Earlier, Malan, who was named in England’s T20 squad on Monday for the forthcoming game against Sri Lanka, played a composed innings of 70 before touching one to the wicketkeeper.From a strong position, Middlesex then suffered a mid-innings collapse, as Ingram settled into an accurate 10-over spell with impressive figures of 3 for 38. Eoin Morgan played a laboured innings of 10 from 16 balls, which included eight singles, until he swept Ingram to deep square leg.Glamorgan’s bowlers were so effective that no boundaries were struck between the 30th and 46th overs, and it needed a partnership of 46 in 26 balls between Toby Roland-Jones and Ollie Rayner to boost Middlesex’s total.Needing to score at six runs an over, Glamorgan’s openers Jacques Rudolph and David Lloyd made a rapid start, reaching 50 from the first ball of the eighth over with Lloyd striking Roland-Jones for three fours in his third over. He scored 41 from 29 balls, before pulling a short ball from James Fuller to Paul Stirling on the long leg boundary.Rudolph and Will Bragg then added a useful 49 before Rudolph was caught behind from James Franklin’s fifth ball of his opening over. Bragg soon followed and at the half-way stage Glamorgan required a further 174 with seven wickets in hand.Franklin, obtaining movement from the River End, halted Glamorgan’s progress and took his third wicket when Aneurin Donald wafted at one outside the off stump.Ingram and Chris Cooke then settled in to their stand, playing every ball on merit, with Ingram reaching his third consecutive one-day fifty from 47 balls. With ten overs remaining, Glamorgan needed a further 87, but Franklin’s gamble paid off when he brought Malan on to bowl his occasional legspin with Cooke holing out at long-on, and Meschede falling in similar fashion.Ingram, however kept going until the 47th over when he drove Fuller to long-on and with him went his team’s hopes of maintaining a 100% record.

Australia’s interim coach, Justin Langer has forecast the possibility of choosing two spinners on slow Caribbean surfaces as he mentors Australia’s ODI team in the tri-series with West Indies and South Africa that begins on June 3

Daniel Brettig31-May-2016Australia’s interim coach, Justin Langer has forecast the possibility of choosing two spinners on slow Caribbean surfaces in the tri-series with West Indies and South Africa that begins on June 3.Slotted in as Australia’s interim coach while Darren Lehmann takes some time out ahead of future assignments, Langer does not want to tinker too much with a successful limited-overs formula and will also be seeking to get acquainted with a role he may find himself applying for in a full-time capacity in future.Langer said that prevailing conditions in the region, most notably Guyana where Australia play their first two matches of the series, meant both Nathan Lyon and Adam Zampa were in the frame to join the allrounder Glenn Maxwell as spin bowling options for the captain Steven Smith.”In Guyana there might be a possibility of two spinners, it comes down to team balance as well,” Langer said. “I know Glenn Maxwell has talked about the importance of him developing his all-round ability, not just his batting, so he can play a role there.”I know Nathan Lyon’s desperate to get back into the one-day side and he’s privately said the same thing. Adam Zampa’s had an excellent start to his international career [and bowls] legspin. We might have a look at how many left-handers and right-handers are in the different opposition combinations and in Guyana we may play more than one of them.”Australia’s players have assembled from a wide assortment of scenarios, whether it was playing in the IPL, recovering from injury or resuming cricket after a post-season break. Langer said it would be a key part of his role to balance the needs of each individual against the team objective to win the series.”It’s a really interesting time for the Australian cricket team,” he said. “There’s a few changes in the coaching personnel for this tour and also with the players. We’ve got some guys coming from the IPL, some guys haven’t played much cricket for a little while now and a few guys coming back from injury, so we’re going to have to manage that well.”Davey Warner has just come off an IPL final so everyone’s different and we’ve got to respect that. Some of the guys have had a short break, which is like gold in this current environment, but also this is the start of a long, 12-18 month journey for the boys. We’ve got to manage that really well, and sometimes that’s hard for the public to understand, but this is the start of a long journey for them and we’ll have to manage everyone a bit differently.”The concern for me is some of our guys haven’t played much cricket at all, and that might be important when we select the first team. Some of the guys who have been playing cricket in the IPL, albeit Twenty20 but they have been playing cricket and you can never underestimate that. So it’s really going to be a challenge how we get the balance right between giving guys match practice without any practice matches and getting the best team on the park as well.”Having finished coaching duties with Western Australia in the summer, Langer had a dramatic start to the trip in New York when he had to undergo surgery for a badly infected tooth and was then informed his credit card had been defrauded. But he has fond memories of the Caribbean region, starting with the famous 1995 tour when he was a reserve batsman watching Australia regain the Frank Worrell Trophy and end West Indies’ 15-year unbeaten run.He also acknowledges it will be a chance to think about the role of coaching Australia, four years after he left the team as assistant coach to work with WA. “I look at it as an experience and a great opportunity,” Langer said. “I say I’m a novice coach even though I feel like I’ve been doing it for a long time now, and hopefully I still say I’m a novice coach in 15 years time, because having that mindset means I’ll always keep learning.”This will be a great experience to be back on the road touring, to see how the Australian cricket team goes about their business. I know they’ve got some great routines that have made them successful and that won’t change over the next few weeks, so I don’t see it as an audition but an experience.”

Newcastle United are plotting a move for Leeds United winger Crysencio Summerville, and are ready to make a move in the summer if Leeds United are relegated, according to a report from Football Insider.

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Newcastle's need to bring in a new winger may be exacerbated by the recent news that Allan Saint-Maximin is planning to leave the club this summer, having grown concerned he will not receive a great deal of game time next season.

Not only are the Magpies looking to strengthen out wide, but they are running the rule over potential central midfield options, with Blackburn Rovers' Adam Wharton recently being linked, as well as Manchester United's Scott McTominay.

Despite boasting the best defensive record in the Premier League, Eddie Howe is also looking at new centre-backs, and a personal offer has recently been tabled to Torino defender Perr Schuurs, although he is not currently convinced by the move.

According to a report from Football Insider, Newcastle are ready to make a move for Summerville, should Leeds be relegated from the Premier League this season, having been impressed by his performances for the Whites this season.

Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund are also admirers of the winger, with several unnamed top sides said to be ready to launch bids this summer, so Leeds will find it difficult to hold on to him if they finish in the bottom three.

Should Newcastle sign Crysencio Summerville?

The Rotterdam-born winger has enjoyed a real breakthrough season with Leeds, although his attacking contributions have dried up in recent weeks, having recorded just one assist in his last 12 Premier League matches.

Earlier on in the campaign, the 21-year-old was particularly impressive in his side's shock 2-1 victory against Liverpool at Anfield, scoring a late winner and winning six duels, the joint-highest amount of any Leeds player.

Given his age, the £15k-per-week starlet has plenty of time to develop his game further, and his form earlier on in the campaign indicates he could go on to be a solid Premier League player, scoring in four games on the spin.

However, despite being hailed "really exciting" by members of the media, Summerville is unlikely to be a signing that will take Newcastle to the next level, and they should instead focus on signing James Maddison, having recently been linked with a move for the man with 15 goal contributions this season.

Alex McLeish must surely go down as a legend amongst the Glasgow Rangers supporters for his four-and-a-half-year spell in charge of the Ibrox side.

He led the team to seven major trophies during that time, all while fighting constant financial restraints which limited his spending severely, meaning he had to largely rely on free transfers and a variety of loan moves.

The likes of Dado Prso, Jean-Alain Boumsong and Nacho Novo all arrived for either nothing or small transfer fees, and contributed towards McLeish’s second title triumph in 2004/05 as they pipped Celtic on the final day of the season in dramatic circumstances.

Along with these aforementioned signings, he also made one of his biggest blunders in the transfer market by shelling out £1.1m on Serbian midfielder Dragan Mladenovic, which proved to be a disaster.

How did Dragan Mladenovic perform at Rangers?

The player arrived from Red Star Belgrade having clearly impressed McLeish to fork out that sum during a time when money was tight, and Mladenovic had also proved his credentials on the international stage, winning seven caps for his country (he would win 17 overall), and it looked as though he could improve the midfield.

Despite the hype and early promise upon his arrival, the Serb went on to make just nine appearances for the Light Blues, failing to record any telling contributions in front of goal.

He moved to Real Sociedad on loan in January 2005, making 12 La Liga appearances for the club in a bid to try and force his way into the Rangers side ahead of the 2005/06 campaign, but it clearly wasn’t enough.

Mladenovic eventually forced a move back to Red Star before jumping ship to join South Korean side Incheon United, where he enjoyed much more game-time compared to his spell in Europe.

Overall, his nine Rangers appearances cost the club over £120k per match – and this was money the club could not afford to throw away.

It was an unmitigated disaster of a signing and one McLeish could look back on and say it was potentially up there as one of his worst while in charge of the Glasgow side.

Mladenovic is currently back in his homeland occupying the role of director of Red Star’s youth academy, and despite injuries not helping his cause, he will perhaps be largely forgettable when it comes to players of that era, as well as a colossal waste of money.

Newcastle United are reportedly interested in making a move for Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembele this summer, seeing him as an ‘attractive’ proposition.

The Lowdown: Big summer ahead

The Magpies are likely to embark on a pivotal summer transfer window, with funds available to spend big on talent and take the team to another level.

Champions League qualification would only aid Newcastle in a financial sense, as well as give them the pulling power to entice some of Europe’s top players to St James’ Park.

One player who has been linked with a move to the Magpies in the past is Dembele, who was a key part of France’s squad at the 2022 World Cup, starting six of his country’s seven matches, including the final defeat to Argentina.

The 25-year-old has also been an important figure for Barca this season, scoring and assisting five times apiece in 18 La Liga appearances to date, although he isn’t necessarily a key starter and is currently out with a hamstring injury.

Dembele is out of contract at Camp Nou in 2024, which may make the Catalan giants consider a big offer for him this summer.

The Latest: Newcastle keen on Dembele

According to Calciomercato [via Sport Witness], Newcastle are continuing to eye a potential move for the Frenchman at the end of the season, seeing him as an ‘attractive’ option.

He has a €50million (£44.2m) release clause in his current Barca deal, and while the Magpies are willing to pay that amount, the likes of Inter Milan and Juventus have ruled themselves out.

Chelsea and Manchester United are also mentioned as possible suitors for Dembele’s signature.

The Verdict: Hugely exciting option

Dembele is exactly the kind of world-renowned player that Newcastle need to be bringing to the club, in terms of both increasing their quality and raising the club’s overall reputation and profile.

The winger has undoubted pedigree, having won 35 caps for a very talented France team, made 178 appearances for Barca and been hailed as ‘special’ by his manager Xavi.

Granted, Dembele’s injury record is not the best, which is a potential drawback, but he is still young enough to overcome those issues and find another gear in the coming years.

He would come in as an upgrade on the likes of Miguel Almiron and Allan Saint-Maximin, which is needed if Newcastle are to become a genuine force in the Premier League and Champions League, and he could become a new superstar at St James’.

Emile Smith Rowe is reportedly among five Arsenal players facing uncertain futures this summer.

The Lowdown: Injury woes

Smith Rowe’s season has unfortunately been jeopardised by injury so far, as he has been limited to just 62 minutes of senior football in total across all competitions.

He did play 45 minutes in an U21s game against Chelsea earlier this week in order to help regain his fitness, and will be hoping to make a swift comeback in the senior team over the next upcoming fixtures.

The Latest: Future in doubt

As per The Times, Smith Rowe is one of five Arsenal players with their futures in doubt at the Emirates Stadium come the summer transfer window.

The sale of Kieran Tierney could be used to fund deals, while loanees Albert Sambi Lokonga, Nuno Tavares and Folarin Balogun are also likely to be sold.

The Verdict: Shock

It would be a real shock if the Gunners allowed Smith Rowe to leave this summer.

A Hale End graduate, the 22-year-old has managed to break into the first-team set-up, and was a regular in the Premier League last season, notching up an impressive ten goals and two assists from midfield (Transfermarkt).

Sure, the injuries have been frustrating for him and the club this term, but the Englishman still has such a high ceiling, and if he can get back to full fitness, Smith Rowe remains an integral part of the squad.

Our staff pick their men’s and women’s teams from among those who excelled through the year

Yash Jha30-Dec-2024Clutch in T20s, top of the class in Tests – Jasprit Bumrah’s mastery of all formats make him the only man to make it to two of ESPNcricinfo’s teams of the year for 2024. The year’s headline events – the men’s and women’s T20 World Cups – saw ball dominate bat, and as a result, two bowling stars each from the championship-winning teams make the T20 XIs: Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh for India, Amelia Kerr and Rosemary Mair for New Zealand.Girish TS/ESPNcricinfo LtdBumrah was one of two unanimous choices for the men’s Test XI, as voted for by ESPNcricinfo staff, alongside Yashasvi Jaiswal, who laced his first full year in international cricket with two double-centuries against England and 161 in Perth, all in wins.Ravindra Jadeja joins his India team-mates as the spin-bowling allrounder in our XI, but England are the most represented side: only Jaiswal prevented Joe Root, Ben Duckett and Harry Brook from making it an all-English podium for most Test runs in 2024; Jamie Smith pipped Rishabh Pant to the wicketkeeper’s berth; a fifth Englishman, Gus Atkinson, narrowly missed out.New Zealand produced arguably the most stunning Test series result of the year (decade? century?) in India, and the stars of their series-opening win in Bengaluru – Rachin Ravindra and Matt Henry – find themselves in the XI, which is rounded off by the ever-consistent Kamindu Mendis and Josh Hazlewood.Girish TS/ESPNcricinfo LtdODIs went off the boil after a World Cup year and 2024 had less than half as many men’s ODIs as there were in 2023. Seven players in the ODI XI come from either Sri Lanka or Afghanistan, who, along with West Indies, were the only Full-Member teams to play 12 or more matches this year.Legspinner Wanindu Hasaranga, the year’s joint-highest wicket-taker, joins the batting trio of Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka and Charith Asalanka – the most prolific run-scorers of the year. The Sri Lankan batters are separated by Rahmanullah Gurbaz in our top four, who is accompanied in the side by his Afghanistan team-mates Azmatullah Omarzai and Mohammad Nabi – the most consistent ODI allrounders of the year.Sherfane Rutherford and Liam Livingstone closed out the middle-order positions ahead of Harry Brook and Keacy Carty, while Taskin Ahmed edged Alzarri Joseph into the pace attack alongside Haris Rauf.Girish TS/ESPNcricinfo LtdOver 1600 men’s T20s were played in 2024. That, coupled with this being a World Cup year, made this among the trickier teams to choose – but the job was made slightly easier with six near-unanimous picks in our XI.Nicholas Pooran was the year’s top run-getter by a country mile, and he struck at nearly 160. Heinrich Klaasen’s absurdly good first half of the year (1125 runs at a strike rate of 172.5 by the end of June) was more than enough to cover a quieter second half. Travis Head was a no-brainer, as was Bumrah. Andre Russell’s sustained all-round chops found him many takers, as did Matheesha Pathirana’s consistent brilliance.And while Rashid Khan didn’t sweep the votes like he often does, it couldn’t stop him from making our T20 XI for the seventh year running. This time he gets the added perk of being captain, having led Afghanistan to the World Cup semi-final.Phil Salt as opener and Tristan Stubbs as finisher were other majority picks, while Arshdeep took the third seamer’s slot (he was the joint-highest wicket-taker in T20Is in 2024 among Full-Member-team bowlers).The last remaining batting spot provided the closest contest: Sanju Samson’s three T20I hundreds late in the year made him a contender, but he was just edged out by Tilak Varma, who had more consistent returns through 2024.Girish TS/ESPNcricinfo LtdThe Player of the final and Player of the Tournament at the T20 World Cup, and the leading wicket-taker of the year, Kerr was one of three near ever-presents in the voting for our women’s T20 XI, alongside Sophie Ecclestone – joint second-highest on the wicket-taking charts – and Ellyse Perry.Kerr and Perry find elite all-round company in our middle order, which is stacked with both pace and spin options. Nat Sciver-Brunt and Marizanne Kapp – both with strike rates exceeding 135 – add heft to the batting line-up, while Deepti Sharma and Hayley Matthews bring riches to the spin department.In addition to being the year’s top run-getter and joint second-highest wicket-taker, Matthews also led West Indies to the World Cup semi-final and Barbados Royals to the WCPL title (while also stepping in as captain briefly for WBBL champions Melbourne Renegades) – which makes her the captain of our team.Shabnim Ismail and Mair (joint third-highest wicket-taker at the World Cup) close out the bowling attack. The opening slots are taken by Beth Mooney – who was a smidge ahead of Richa Ghosh in the race to the wicketkeeper’s berth – and Laura Wolvaardt, who narrowly kept Smriti Mandhana out of the mix.Girish TS/ESPNcricinfo LtdMandhana and Wolvaardt – the year’s most prolific batters in the format by some distance – are united at the top of our ODI XI, which sees Chamari Athapaththu slot in at No. 3 (and as captain).Kapp and Ecclestone bossed the votes in this category too, while Kate Cross’ large haul of wickets made her a near-unanimous pick as well. Amy Jones was a runaway leader as the wicketkeeping option.The remaining spots were all keenly contested. For No. 4, Orla Prendergast of Ireland had the stakes tipped in her favour by her high-impact innings against Sri Lanka and England, making it ahead of Matthews, while Ashleigh Gardner’s spin nicked her a berth ahead of seamer Annabel Sutherland as the last of our allrounders.Alana King partners Gardner and Ecclestone in the spin department, while Megan Schutt forms the pace attack along with Cross and Kapp.More in our look back at 2024

Karthik Krishnaswamy and Alex Malcolm are back to discuss all that happened in the second Border-Gavaskar Test

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Feb-2023A dramatic second-innings Australian collapse in Delhi – they lost their last eight wickets for 28 runs – meant India have the Border-Gavaskar Trophy all wrapped up with two Tests to play (as holders, they retain the trophy even if the series is drawn). This, despite the hosts having looked vulnerable at various points during the match. Where did the match turn (no pun intended)? Karthik Krishnaswamy and Alex Malcolm look back.