Preview All-new line-up presents opportunities for host players but question marks for visitors Big Picture Well, that escalated quickly. It’s only been a matter of days since the soggy denouement to England’s third and final ODI against Sri Lanka – a match that had begun amid rumours of a few fresh faces in the ranks,
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All the domestic squads in New Zealand have now been confirmed with the final contract spots handed out among the six teams who will compete for the Plunket Shield, Ford Trophy and Super Smash. Canterbury dominated the 2020-21 season by winning the Plunket Shield and Ford Trophy while Wellington, with Finn Allen and Devon Conway
News The allrounder wants to be back to peak bowling fitness in time for the T20 World Cup later this year Hardik Pandya is inching closer to his goal of bowling “in all games at the T20 World Cup”, with his team-mate in Sri Lanka, Suryakumar Yadav, confirming that the allrounder has been sending down
News The allrounder spent time working on his lower-order hitting ahead of the West Indies tour Ashton Agar‘s primary role in Australia’s T20I team is with the ball, but he knows contributing with the bat is key to the balance of the side and adds to his value. Though he opened in the first intra-squad
News Selectors recall uncapped seamer Caneisha Isaac in 13-member squad Chinelle Henry has been rested for the first two ODIs against Pakistan Women as the West Indies Women selection panel recalled uncapped seamer Caneisha Isaac as part of the 13-member squad for the first two of the five ODIs starting July 7. The other members
News Ben Stokes to captain replacement team against Pakistan after three players, four management test positive England’s white-ball squads have been forced to self-isolate two days before the start of their ODI series against Pakistan following seven positive Covid-19 tests among the team’s players and management. Three players and four members of management have tested
News “I guess it’s a great way to give back to the fans that’ve supported us,” Tim Southee says New Zealand’s World Test Championship-winning squad is set for a week-long, nationwide tour with the mace later this month. The tour will kick off in Whangarei on July 26 and will end in Invercargill (Stadium Southland)
News The offspinner, though, will need a work visa to play county cricket R Ashwin will play a county championship match for Surrey – provided he gets the required work visa on time – before he re-joins the Indian team. While Ashwin is in England already for the Test series that will start in August,
News Health concerns in England camp will have no immediate effect on touring party The Indian squad on tour in the UK will be receiving their second round of the Covid-19 vaccine on July 7 and 9. While this is in accordance with long-planned BCCI countermeasures to keep their players safe, it assumes greater significance
Play 00:50 Paine open to Smith missing T20 World Cup for Ashes State batters should be “licking their lips” at the prospect of pushing for an Ashes batting spot according to Test captain Tim Paine with vacancies in Australia’s top order. ESPNcricinfo understands that more than half the Sheffield Shield, which is scheduled to return
News Mickey Arthur reveals mixing with England after Bristol ODI with India series due to start in a week Sri Lanka’s ODI squad face an anxious wait for the results of their PCR tests on returning home, following a Covid-19 outbreak in the England squad after the final match of their tour in Bristol on
Ashley Giles insists there has been no breach of Covid protocols from the England squad despite an outbreak of positive cases. England were forced to pick an entirely new squad of players and support staff for the ODI series against Pakistan after seven members of the party originally selected (four from the management unit and
England team director Ashley Giles on Tuesday defended his players, saying not a single one of them broke the COVID-19 protocols set out by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). Giles remarks come as three England players and four members of the backroom staff tested positive for Covid-19 and as a result, the management
News The Zimbabwe duo had recently come into contact with family members who tested positive for Covid Zimbabwe are likely to miss out on the services of Sean Williams and Craig Ervine for the one-off Test against Bangladesh that starts on Wednesday in Harare. Both players have gone into self-isolation after coming in contact with
Preview Mominul Haque’s men have lost three of their four Tests this year and might be without Tamim Iqbal for this one Big picture With not much at stake in the one-off Test between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in Harare, there is hardly any pre-match buzz. Zimbabwe are not part of the World Test Championship. Bangladesh
News Lehmann will step back into an assistant role despite signing a new deal earlier this year Wade Seccombe has been tipped as a future Australia coach amid a restructuring at Brisbane Heat which has seen him take the head coach position while Darren Lehmann steps back into a senior assistant role for the BBL.
News “We’re just here to have some fun, enjoy this series completely, and take a lot of positives” The India players who are in Sri Lanka for the upcoming limited-overs series are paying no heed to conversations about them being a second-string team – as Arjuna Ranatunga called them – according to Suryakumar Yadav, who
News Left-arm seamer pulled out of County Championship fixture vs Middlesex on third morning Amid the chaos of England’s first-choice ODI squad entering self-isolation on Tuesday morning, a handful of county stalwarts received news that they thought would never come. Danny Briggs was recalled after seven-and-a-half years since his last international appearance; John Simpson was
News His “projected recovery time” is three to four weeks, according to CSA South Africa fast bowler Sisanda Magala has been ruled out of the Ireland tour with an injury to his left ankle. Magala sustained the injury while preparing for the Ireland tour in Grenada, and his “projected recovery time” is three to four
Dan Lawrence is among those who could make an ODI debut © Getty Images for ECB England have called up nine uncapped players including Zak Crawley, Will Jacks and Brydon Carse for their upcoming ODI series against Pakistan after the entire first-choice squad was forced to self-isolate two days before the first fixture in Cardiff.
News The squad was split into two teams of 10 for a 22-over-a-side match in the first proper hit-out of the tour Australia I 195 for 6 (Marsh 56, Turner 45) beat Australia II 193 for 5 (Christian 47, Henriques 36) by four wickets Dan Christian, Mitchell Marsh and Ashton Turner made an impression with
News The Bangladesh head coach is also pleased with the “good energy and attitude” brought by the returning Shakib Al Hasan Tamim Iqbal is doubtful for the one-off Test against Zimbabwe that starts on Wednesday. According to coach Russell Domingo, the opener yet to recover fully from a knee injury that he picked up during
News Seamer takes five-wicket haul within opening eight overs at Emirates Old Trafford to reach landmark James Anderson claimed the 1000th first-class wicket of his career during a vintage afternoon’s work on day two of Lancashire’s County Championship match against Kent at Emirates Old Trafford. Anderson, the most-prolific fast bowler in Test history, went into
News Despite the punishment, the batter has been included in the training squad ahead of the India series Sri Lanka batter Bhanuka Rajapaksa has been fined $5000 for a breach of contract and is essentially on probation for two years, having been handed a one-year ban as a suspended sentence. SLC dealt out these punishments
An unbeaten 98 from James Vince and a quickfire 45 for Josh Philippe as the dew took hold at Manuka Oval saw the Sydney Sixers skip to a massive nine-wicket win and win hosting rights for the BBL|10 Final
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Jos Buttler’s last England appearance was the first T20I against Sri Lanka in June.© AFP England white-ball captain Eoin Morgan has said both Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler are doubtful for the upcoming T20I series against Pakistan. Buttler played the first T20I against Sri Lanka, but has missed the following five matches (two T20Is and
News Australia captain also excited at the prospect of playing both Tayla Vlaeminck and Darcie Brown in the same XI Australia captain Meg Lanning has endorsed the view that if Test cricket is to grow as a viable format in the women’s game, then multi-day matches need to be played at domestic level as her
News Jayasundara had attempted to bribe a minister to influence selection for a Sri Lanka A tour in 2019 The anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC has banned Sanath Jayasundara, a former Sri Lanka Cricket performance analyst, from all cricket for seven years after he was found guilty of breaching the ICC anti-corruption code. In January
News The Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) hearings will run till July 23, with 58 submissions to be heard Cricket South Africa’s Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) hearings on racial discrimination in the game began on Monday and will run until July 23, with 58 submissions set to be heard. In his opening address, SJN