Lea Tahuhu retires from ODI cricket
New Zealand fast bowler Lea Tahuhu retired from 15-year-long ODI cricket career. After making her debut in June 2011 against Australia, Tahuhu ended her career as the most successful bowler for New Zealand in ODIs with 125 wickets in 103 matches at 28.01 and an economy of 4.54. Her 36 wickets in ODI World Cups are the most for a New Zealand bowler in the tournament. Tahuhu made her final appearance in an ODI against England at the 2025 World Cup.
“It’s always been a privilege and honour to pull on the White Ferns shirt in ODI cricket,” Tahuhu said in a New Zealand Cricket statement. “To get one game was an amazing feeling. To have been able to wear the shirt and represent my country and my family over 100 times in ODI cricket is something I never could have dreamt of.”
New First-Class record set by Central Districts fast bowler
Central Districts fast bowler Brett Randell registered his name to the record book after becoming the first bowler in the history of first-class cricket to pick up five wickets in five balls. On Day 2 of a Plunkett Shield game against Northern Districts in Napier on Sunday. He ran through the Northern Districts top-order as they were reduced to 9 for 5 from 4 for no loss.
Randell also became the first to take six wickets in eight balls in first-class cricket. He eventually finished with career-best figures of 7 for 25 in 11 overs. Northern Districts were were asked to follow-on after Central Districts had scored 373 in their first innings.
“I’m pretty blown away. The high was pretty crazy, it was like a pinch-me moment,” Randell said after his feat. “I was trying to stay level-headed and keep putting the ball in the same area and then after the actual hat-trick, just the same things — trying to put the ball in the same area.
“The pink ball was a different challenge”, Amol Muzumdar
India women’s head coach Amol Muzumdar refused to blame the day-night fixture for India’s loss to Australia at the WACA ground but admitted that there were challenges. “They were tough conditions. The pink ball was a different challenge,” Muzumdar told reporters. “There’s no doubt the ball moved quite considerably under lights, but that’s the way it is. Got to adjust to the conditions. It was the same for both teams.”
India’s hopes of drawing the multi-format series ended as they crashed to a ten-wicket loss inside three days. “We could have played those two sessions [on day one] a little differently. If we could have put a good score on the board in the first innings, [it] would have been a different story.”
“We’re not going to talk about milestones”, Gautam Gambhir
After winning the T20 World Cup 2026, India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir said that personal achievements do not matter to him, milestones do. “For too long in Indian cricket, we’ve spoken about milestones, and I hope, till I’m there, we’re not going to talk about milestones.” Gambhir explained, “You can see it very easily as well. You can see it in the last three games, what Sanju [Samson] did – 97 not out, 89 and 89. Imagine if you would have been playing for a milestone, probably we wouldn’t have got 250. So I think this is for you guys [media] as well. Stop celebrating milestones, celebrate trophies. That is going to be important, because the bigger purpose of a team sport is to be winning trophies.”
Gambhir dedicated the trophy Rahul Dravid for his contributions during his tenure as India’s head coach that saw India winning the T20 World Cup after 17 years. “I think I should dedicate this trophy to Rahul bhai and then to Laxman. Because of what Rahul bhai has done to keep Indian cricket in such good shape. I have to thank him for everything what he’s done during his tenure. And then VVS Laxman for unconditionally doing so much for Indian cricket, especially behind the scenes, because CoE remains the pipeline for Indian cricket. Third is obviously Ajit Agarkar, because he does take a lot of flak and I’m thankful for the amount of honesty he’s worked with.”
