Marcus Harris is on a 12-month mission to press his case for next year’s Ashes series in England but is realistic that it may be some time before there is a vacancy for him to return to Australia’s Test side. Harris was the fall guy to accommodate Usman Khawaja’s stunning return to Test cricket after
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Watch highlights of Ben Stoke’s 161 for Durham against Worcestershire; an innings which included 17 sixes. Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket teams and England and Wales Cricket Board, including highlights, interviews and features getting you closer to the
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While Hetmyer has been given a break so he can be home for the birth of his first child, the statement from Cricket West Indies said Even Lewis was not considered since he failed CWI’s fitness criteria. Holder has been rested, with workload management cited as the key reason. All three are part of the
Ron Kalifa, the man widely tipped to become the next chair of the ECB, has withdrawn from the race, to deepen the leadership crisis at the top of English cricket. The ECB has been without a permanent chair since October, when Ian Watmore quit the role in the wake of England’s withdrawal from their planned
Mahmudul Hasan Joy and Shoriful Islam will get a chance to meet and interact with Naveed Nawaz, their one-time mentor who is now in the opposition camp, as the assistant coach of the Sri Lanka team that is in Bangladesh for a two-Test series. The reunion will take place in Chattogram on May 12 before
Ryan Campbell, the former Australia wicketkeeper-batter and current Netherlands men’s head coach, has been discharged from hospital after follow-up tests showed no damage to his heart. Campbell, 50, had suffered a series of cardiac arrests on April 16 in Stoke-on-Trent and was taken into intensive care in an induced coma. While the doctors at the
The concept of retiring a batter out is really starting to bed into T20 cricket with Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis contemplating walking off the field to allow the big-hitting Dinesh Karthik more time in the middle in their game against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday. “If he [Karthik] keeps hitting sixes like that,
This new T20 competition – an innovative creation bringing together some of the leading players from women’s game with those from the Associate nations – got underway in Dubai. While most Australians have stayed at home to rest there are a few taking part. Georgia Redmayne, who was a travelling reserve at the recent World
Devon Conway‘s blazing blade and Moeen Ali‘s effective off-breaks beautifully complemented each other as Chennai Super Kings outclassed Delhi Capitals in every department of the game, winning their IPL 2022 match by a comprehensive 91-run margin. Put in to bat, Conway completed a hat-trick of half-centuries with a superb 87 off 49 balls to set
Paul Adams, the former South African wristspinner, has confirmed that he will not testify against former team-mate Mark Boucher, in his upcoming CSA disciplinary hearing between May 16 to 20. Boucher, the current head coach of the South African national team, is slated to appear before senior counsel advocate Terry Motau, where he faces charges
Ben Stokes, England’s new Test captain, has confirmed that Joe Root will move back to No. 4 in the order when the team returns to action against New Zealand next month. Root, Stokes’ predecessor who stood down after five years in the role, had moved up to No. 3 for England’s most-recent series, a 1-0
Follow the latest England news at ecb.co.uk/england/men England win again to end the series 4-0 against Pakistan. Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and England and Wales Cricket Board. Including highlights, interviews, features getting you closer to the
Cheteshwar Pujara scored yet another ton for Sussex vs Middlesex.© Instagram Cheteshwar Pujara is really making a statement in County Championships Division Two this season as he registered his fourth 100-plus score in as many games for Sussex while playing against Middlesex at Hove on Saturday. Pujara has already scored two double centuries for Sussex
Despite the unavailability of key players at various points and a Covid-19 outbreak in their camp, Delhi Capitals have found a way to stay in the hunt for the playoffs. Their net run-rate of +0.641 is the best among all ten teams, which suggests their five losses have been close affairs. Their opponents Chennai Super
Khaled Mahmud, the Bangladesh team director, feels Mustafizur Rahman should not have been allowed to pick and choose the formats he wished to play, as it has led to a fast-bowling vacuum in the Test side. Mustafizur is currently playing in the IPL for Delhi Capitals, having taken eight wickets in as many matches this
Find out more at ecb.co.uk Watch the best moments from Ben Stokes hitting a record-breaking 258 against South Africa at Cape Town. Stokes broke a number of records including the highest score by a number six as well as the quickest 250 in Test history. Recap a magical innings. This is the official channel of
IPL 2022: MI defeated GT on Friday.© BCCI/IPL Mumbai Indians beat Gujarat Titans by five runs in their Indian Premier League match, on Friday. Invited to bat, MI made 177 for 6 and then restricted the Titans to 172 for 5 to win the match. Ishan Kishan top-scored for MI with a 29-ball 45 while
Mohammad Amir is back playing first-class cricket again. Two-and-a-half years after announcing the end of his Test career, the left-arm fast bowler is back in whites. Amir signed up with Gloucestershire county cricket club in England as a replacement for Naseem Shah and picked up his first wickets of the season on Thursday. Still only
Brilliant unbeaten half-centuries by David Warner and Rovman Powell were backed by clinical performances from Delhi Capitals bowlers as they defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 21 runs here at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday. This is DC’s 5th win in IPL 2022 while SRH fell to their 5th loss of the season, both teams have
Four IPL franchises – Delhi Capitals, Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals – and a consortium led by Kevin Pietersen have expressed interest in buying franchises in South Africa’s new T20 tournament. The competition, scheduled for January next year, is set to include six privately owned teams, who will play each other home
Chris Silverwood is no stranger to Sri Lanka’s foibles. After all, it was only a little over a year ago that he brought his England side to Lankan shores and swept the home team 2-0 in a Test series. But now, some 15 months later, he’s at the other end, charged with patching up the
Jofra Archer hopes to make his return to first-team cricket later this month and has admitted that his elbow injury left him fearing for his England central contract. Archer, 27, has not played for England since their T20I series in India last March and has undergone three bouts of surgery in the last 14 months:
Find out more at ecb.co.uk Ricky Ponting would later call it one of the toughest spells of bowling he ever faced. With Australia yet to lose a wicket in pursuit of England’s target of 282, Michael Vaughan threw the ball to his talisman Freddie Flintoff. And boy did he deliver something special! This is the
Harshal Patel and Glenn Maxwell led a clinical bowling performance to help Royal Challengers Bangalore register a 13-run win over Chennai Super Kings, pushing the defending champions to the brink of elimination in the IPL here on Wednesday. The quartet of Mahipal Lomror, who smashed a 27-ball 42, skipper Faf du Plessis (38 off 22),
The BCCI has banned Boria Majumdar, the Kolkata-based journalist Wriddhiman Saha had pointed at for “threat and intimidation”, for two years. Majumdar will not get press accreditation for domestic or international matches in India, interviews with any “registered players”, and access to cricket facilities owned by the BCCI or the state/member associations. In a missive
Joe Root and Ben Stokes, England’s past and present Test captains, will both return to action for the first time this season in the latest round of LV= County Championship matches on Thursday. Root, who stood down last month during an extended break following England’s series loss in the Caribbean, has been named in a
Australia could consider playing five specialist bowlers plus an allrounder in Sri Lanka as a way of sneaking three spinners into the side for back-to-back Tests in Galle. They picked three specialist spinners, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Swepson and Ashton Agar, in their Test squad last week along with three further specialist spinners – Todd Murphy,
Suranga Lakmal, who ended his international career following the tour of India earlier this year, makes way, as do fellow quicks Lahiru Kumara and Dushmantha Chameera, who is being rested from red-ball cricket until the T20 World Cup later this year. There is also no room for legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay, nor batters Pathum Nissanka, Charith
New Zealand coach Gary Stead is confident that Kane Williamson will be able to withstand the rigours of Test cricket when he returns from a long-standing elbow problem against England next month. “Absolutely, yep,” Stead said when asked if Williamson would be ready for the start of the series. “He’s going really well. Been talking