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• Matthews criticises ‘unfair’ funding after Australia crush West Indies to race into final

  30-06-2026 19:25
  Semi-final: Australia, 127-2, bt West Indies, 125-7, by 8 wkts‘Our girls have to fight a lot to even be competing,’ says captainThe West Indies captain, Hayley Matthews, criticised the “unfair” distribution of funding in global cricket after her team were beaten resoundingly by Australia in the T20 World Cup semi-finals.Australia chased down their 126‑run target with eight wickets and seven overs to spare, after a 63-run partnership off 36 balls between Beth Mooney
  
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• Australia race into T20 World Cup final after West Indies rocked by Dottin’s collapse

  30-06-2026 19:25
  Semi-final: Australia, 127-2, bt West Indies, 125-7, by 8 wktsWest Indies limp out after struggling with illnessThe West Indies captain, Hayley Matthews, criticised the “unfair” distribution of funding in global cricket after her team were resoundingly beaten by Australia in the T20 World Cup semi-finals.Australia chased down their 126-run target with eight wickets and seven overs to spare, after a 63-run partnership off 36 balls between Beth Mooney and Ash Gardner allowed Australia
  
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• Australia breeze past West Indies in Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – live

  30-06-2026 19:00
  Australia will face England or South Africa in final
  Match preview | Email Cameron with your thoughtsAustralia: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Lucy Hamilton, Kim GarthUnchanged from the Aussies. Other option would have been to bring the legspinner Alana King back in, but they’ve stuck with Phoebe Litchfield who came back in in the previous match. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia breeze past West Indies in Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – as it happened

  30-06-2026 19:00
  The six-time winners raced to victory at the Oval thanks to Beth Mooney’s half-centuryAustralia: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Lucy Hamilton, Kim GarthUnchanged from the Aussies. Other option would have been to bring the legspinner Alana King back in, but they’ve stuck with Phoebe Litchfield who came back in in the previous match. Continue reading...
  
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• Harry Brook says it ‘would be a privilege’ to succeed Stokes as England Test captain

  30-06-2026 18:49
  ‘If I got offered the job, I’d be happy to take it’England play India in first T20 on WednesdayHarry Brook has declared himself ready to take on England’s vacant Test captaincy following the retirement of Ben Stokes, saying it would be “a great honour” to be given the role and is open to being the country’s first leader to unite the blazers across all formats since Andrew Strauss did so briefly in 2009.“It would be a privilege to do it, to captain
  
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• Australia v West Indies: Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – live

  30-06-2026 16:24
  Updates from the Oval, 2.30pm BST/11.30pm AEST
  Match preview | Email Cameron with your thoughtsAustralia: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Lucy Hamilton, Kim GarthUnchanged from the Aussies. Other option would have been to bring the legspinner Alana King back in, but they’ve stuck with Phoebe Litchfield who came back in in the previous match. Continue reading...
  
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• England 1-2 New Zealand: player ratings for the three-Test series

  30-06-2026 15:03
  Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips and Nathan Smith stood out for the visitors as they came from behind to win the seriesBy the 99.94 Cricket BlogBen Stokes: 57 runs at 14.3; seven wickets at 21.9
  He retired when he was England’s best bowler, best captain and a century away from being worth his place as a batter alone. But, as he acknowledged himself, when the air goes out of the balloon it deflates very quickly – as anyone who has ever retired from any job will tell you. Continue readin
  
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• Ben Stokes in numbers: from specialist superhero to single-minded Test conductor

  30-06-2026 09:00
  Figures spell out the highs and lows of a force of personality who could swing games in his team’s favourHe swept Nathan Smith for six on an acid-trip of an afternoon, his last on the field as a Test cricketer. He nearly shredded Will O’Rourke’s fingers with a straight drive and swung his way to 30 as an agent of chaos. But was it ever going to last much longer?In his finest moments, Ben Stokes would grind before the burst, scoring two off his first 66 balls at Headingley in 20
  
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