Here's a wrap of all major international episodes in 2024.
The announcement appointing Sabapathy, CBE, as Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant for the County of the West Midlands was made by the Queen over the weekend, a release said.
2024 saw some of the most competitive and captivating cricket being played on the field.
Joe Root's historic 34th Test century was made even more special by a heartwarming moment as he hugged his father Matt Root.
Cummins, Hazlewood ruled out of Champions Trophy.
Australia repelled a brief England fightback led by Alastair Cook and Ben Stokes to remain firmly in control of the second Ashes Test on the third day at Lord's on Saturday.
Legendary pacer Glenn McGrath has slammed England for playing casual cricket against Australia in the ongoing Ashes.
Australia captain Pat Cummins is all but ruled out of the Champions Trophy while fellow paceman Josh Hazlewood is also a doubt for the tournament.
Also present: Ravi Shastri and Harbhajan Singh.
MCC "unreservedly apologised" to the Australian team after its few members allegedly abused several visiting players in the Lord's Long Room following Jonny Bairstow's controversial dismissal.
Batting at No. 8, Gus Atkinson smashed an unbeaten 74 off 81 balls, including four sixes and five fours, punishing the Sri Lankan bowlers in the final session.
South Africa will seek to exploit any weaknesses England may display when they go into the opening test at Lord's under a new captain and with some injury concerns, the tourists' stand-in skipper Dean Elgar has said.
Images from Day 2 of the second Ashes between England and Australia at Lord's in London on Thursday.
A minor hip injury kept Ben Stokes out of the World Cup opening match which England lost by nine wickets against New Zealand.
"Prithvi Shaw and Suryakumar Yadav have completed their quarantine period and have joined the team at Lord's," the BCCI's media team stated.
England spinner Rehan Ahmed has been added to the Ashes squad for the second Test against Australia.
India need to win three of the remaining four Tests in Australia to book their place in the WTC 2025 final.
England have named an unchanged squad for the first two Tests of the five-match Ashes series against Australia.
Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma and Shardul Thakur in the nets.
Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun Tendulkar took part in England's practice session on Wednesday ahead of the second Ashes Test against Australia at Lord's.
England captain Ben Stokes' swashbuckling 155 was in vain as Australia won the second Ashes Test at Lord's by 43 runs on an extraordinary final day on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the five-Test series.
Johnson sidelined for Aus tour of UK
ICC said it docked points and fined both England and Australia for maintaining slow over-rate during the recently-concluded Ashes series.
Trailing by 352, Ireland slumped to 18-2 and reached 97-3 at stumps as Tongue took all three wickets and finished with figures of 3-27.
AB de Villiers feels the criticism that has come South Africa's way is unwarranted and they have rather done well to reach the WTC final despite experiencing "so many changes" in the last three to five years.
The depth of fast bowlers at South Africa's disposal was no better evidenced than on Thursday as Corbin Bosch and Dale Paterson took nine of the 10 wickets to dismiss Pakistan for 211 on the opening day of the first Test at Centurion.
Zimbabwe have not played an away Test against England, India or Australia since 2003.
Shai Hope powered West Indies to a thrilling four-wicket victory over England
England's Jonny Bairstow compiled his first century at Lord's -- and his second of the series -- to ensure the hosts completed a satisfactory first day of the final Test against Sri Lanka on Thursday, finishing at 279 for six.
Ponting delivered his verdict on England's 'Bazball', saying that while it resulted in some entertaining action, the hosts got carried away
India opener KL Rahul said his side's victory at Lord's in the second Test against England will go down as one of their best, particularly as they had lost heavily at the venue in 2018.
'The nadir came in that hour and 20 minutes before lunch on the fifth day of the second Test, which must rank among the worst stuff I've seen from an England Test team in years.'
All set to step out one last time in the Test arena, the greatest England pacer can leave the game with a flourish and a record to boot.
Australia ripped out England's top order to take a vice-like grip on the second Ashes Test after completely dominating the second day at Lord's on Friday.
Opener Dawid Malan hit a superb century before Moeen Ali grabbed four wickets as England beat New Zealand by 100 runs in the fourth One-Day International on Friday for a 3-1 series victory.
Rajneesh Gupta presents the numbers from the Lord's Test.
India stumbled to second place in the ICC World Test Championship 2025 table after suffering a 0-3 series whitewash against New Zealand.
South Africa are within touching distance of a place in next June's World Test Championship final at Lord's but must win at least one of their two Tests against Pakistan
Devon Conway and Rachin Ravindra smashed rapid unbeaten centuries to set up New Zealand's successful pursuit of a 283-run victory target, which came with 13.4 overs to spare.
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