Cricket news round-up – 22 July: India announce squads for West Indies, Australia Women retain Ashes

India have announced their squads for all three formats for the upcoming tour of West Indies; Ellyse Perry dazzled again as Australia Women retained The Ashes; and India Under-19s started the Under-19s Triangular tournament in England with a win.

India announce all three squads for West Indies

India have announced their squads for all three formats for the upcoming tour of West Indies. That Virat Kohli would lead them in all three formats and MS Dhoni will not be available were already known.

Along with that, Jasprit Bumrah has been rested for the limited-overs matches, while Hardik Pandya has been rested entirely; Shikhar Dhawan is back; Dinesh Karthik and Mayank Agarwal have been left out; and uncapped Rahul Chahar and Navdeep Saini have been included. The squads read:

Tests: Virat Kohli (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav.

ODIs: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Rishabh Pant (wk), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kedar Jadhav, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Navdeep Saini.

T20Is: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Rishabh Pant (wk), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Navdeep Saini.

Australia Women retain Ashes

Australia Women merely needed to draw the Test at Taunton to retain The Women’s Ashes. They had as good as done that by Day Two.

England resumed the final day on 199/6, requiring another 72 to make Australia bat again. Despite falling short of her maiden hundred, Nat Sciver (88) saved them from that embarrassment. Heather Knight declared on 275/9 (Sophie Molineux 4/95 on debut), just before lunch, 145 behind.

Laura Marsh reduced Australia to 15/2 before Ellyse Perry took charge. She kept batting despite losing her partners, and remained unbeaten on 76 (to go with 116 and 1/44) when the captains shook hands at 230/7.

India Under-19s win first match

India Under-19s beat England Under-19s in the first match of the Under-19s Triangular Tournament in England. Batting first, England were bowled out for 204 by Kartik Tyagi (3/35) and Ravi Bishnoi (3/40), Lewis Goldsworthy top-scoring with 58.

Yashasvi Jaiswal (78) and Divyaansh Saxena (43) then added 92 for the second wicket to as good as settle the match. Priyam Garg raced to a 33-ball 38, and India won by 5 wickets in the 40th over.

County Championship round-up

In the only match of the day, Gloucestershire were 339/7 at stumps on Day One against Worcestershire at Cheltenham. Chris Dent scored 58 and Ryan Higgins 76, while Tom Smith is still at the crease with 79. Joe Leach took 3/71.

Vitality Blast round-up

With 12 to score off 3 balls at the Rose Bowl, Alex Blake (57* in 38) hit Chris Wood for consecutive sixes to help Kent defeat Hampshire. Earlier, James Vince (51 in 35) had taken Hampshire to 145/5, Hardus Viljoen returning figures of 4-0-20-2 and Fred Klaassen 4-0-27-2. For Hampshire, Kyle Abbott took 4-0-22-3 and Liam Dawson 4-0-25-2, but Blake triumphed in the end.

Leicestershire never recovered after losing both openers for golden ducks at Edgbaston to Fidel Edwards (4-0-22-4). They limped to 115/9. Riding on Ashton Agar’s unbeaten 28-ball 41, Birmingham won by 7 wickets in the 15th over.

Steven Croft batted through 20 overs with a 43-ball 65 not out while Glenn Maxwell smashed a 33-ball 58, helping Lancashire post 189/3 at Old Trafford. Durham then folded for 117 against Matt Parkinson (3.4-0-30-3), Richard Gleeson (3-0-15-2), and Danny Lamb (4-0-25-2) despite Scott Steel’s 58.