West Indies allrounder Raymon Reifer has been cleared to resume bowling slower balls and cutters after he was suspended from bowling them in October 2023. Remedial footage of his action was recently sent to the Loughborough University, who have now cleared it. The same university had deemed Reifer’s action for those balls to be illegal
New Zealand and Otago opening batter Hamish Rutherford will play the last match of his professional career next week, in the Super Smash clash against Northern Districts in Dunedin. Rutherford will end a career that started in 2008 and in which he has scored 16,468 so far across formats. Rutherford played 16 Tests as part
Eisenhower Park in New York will not be hosting any international matches before the T20 World Cup in June, as the ground will be ready only by the end of May. The venue is slated to host three of India’s matches in the upcoming tournament. Announcing detailed plans on Wednesday for the New York venue,
The ECB will invest an additional £800,000 in wages for the women’s Hundred in 2024 in a bid to attract the world’s best overseas players and to close the tournament’s gender pay gap, with men’s salaries frozen for the third straight season. ESPNcricinfo understands that the salary cap will increase by 40% for each of
Tea Australia 260 for 8 (Cummins 10*, Lyon 4*) lead West Indies 188 by 72 runs On his home ground, Travis Head overcame tricky batting conditions and a spirited West Indies attack, led by debutants Shamar Joseph and Justin Greaves, to compile his seventh Test century and put Australia in the lead after they briefly
Virat Kohli (L) and Rohit Sharma after the win against Afghanistan© AFP The Indian cricket team made history by completing a 3-0 whitewash in the three-match series against Afghanistan after a hard-fought victory in the third encounter in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The match needed two Super Overs to finally end in India’s favour with Rohit
Did Rohit Sharma retire out or retire hurt? That question hung in the air after a dramatic finish to the third T20I in Bengaluru, where it took India two Super Overs to clinch victory against a spirited Afghanistan side. The bone of contention revolved around Rohit, the India captain, batting in the second Super Over
Winning over the crowds is a key tenet for success in India. So says Steven Finn, a man who was part of the last squad to go there and emerge with a series victory, back in 2012. England travel to India on Sunday dreaming of replicating that effort, which remains one of the team’s most
Australia’s reserve batter Matt Renshaw will be released to play in the BBL qualifier for Brisbane Heat against Sydney Sixers on Friday night on the Gold Coast, which leaves Australia’s Test team without a concussion replacement for 24 hours if a batter were to suffer a head knock against West Indies on day three of
Sikandar Raza, Zimbabwe’s captain and premier allrounder, has agreed to join Northamptonshire for the 2024 Vitality Blast. Raza, 37, is currently ranked as the fifth-best allrounder in T20I cricket, and recently became the first player in the format’s history to score five consecutive half-centuries. He has been nominated as the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of
Toss India opt to bat vs Afghanistan The series in the bag already, India decided to challenge themselves by batting first in Bengaluru, a venue notorious for helping out chasing sides in the night. India made three changes to their side, giving out opportunities to Sanju Samson and Avesh Khan, and also going an allrounder
There are dream debuts, and then there is Shamar Joseph‘s debut. To begin with, he became the first ever from his tiny village of Baracara in Guyana – the place has a measly population of 350 – to represent West Indies in a Test during the first Test against Australia in Adelaide. Then he hit
Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs New Zealand Pakistan captain Shaheen Shah Afridi won his third toss in a row in the T20I series and again opted to bowl, with hopes of keeping the series alive. Like they had announced on the eve of the game, they mad three changes to their XI with Mohammad
This summer, though, has been remarkable for him in T20s. Let’s go back a few months to another summer, the one in England. Allen smashed 240 runs from nine outings in the Hundred, only behind Jos Buttler’s tally of 391, with a strike rate of nearly 145 that helped Southern Brave reach the playoffs. He
Gujarat 264 and 219 (Umang 57, Hingrajia 56, Koushik 3-16, Rohit 3-61) beat Karnataka 374 and 103 (Padikkal 31, Desai 7-42, Vaghela 3-38) by six runs Mayank Agarwal scored the only century of the match. V Koushik picked up seven wickets across two innings. But a Ranji Trophy match Karnataka would have expected to win
Laurie Evans is the fastest-scoring batter in the Big Bash League this season and blitzed 72 off 34 balls in Perth Scorchers’ final-ball defeat to Sydney Sixers on Tuesday, their final game of the regular home-and-away portion. But when Scorchers face Adelaide Strikers in Saturday’s Eliminator, he will be 9,000km away in Abu Dhabi. Evans
Shamar Joseph, the West Indies fast bowler with just five first-class matches under his belt, made a remarkable start to his Test career when he removed Steven Smith with his first ball during West Indies’ first Test against Australia in Adelaide. Joseph, 24, had already made an impression on the opening day in Adelaide when
Toss Australia chose to bowl against West Indies Pat Cummins has become just the second captain since 1992 to send a side in after winning the toss at Adelaide Oval as Australia hope to exploit cool, overcast conditions and a lively-looking surface. There was an audible gasp of surprise from the crowd after Cummins announced
The big three in world cricket, including India, England and Australia should do more to save smaller Test playing teams and ICC’s current revenue sharing model is “completely broken”, said Cricket West Indies CEO Johnny Grave. India being the engine of the game pockets close to 40 percent of ICC’s net annual earnings, followed by
Zimbabwe allrounder Luke Jongwe had Angelo Mathews wallpaper when he was younger (whether this was a physical poster or the background screen on a device wasn’t clear). Mathews was also Jongwe’s social media profile picture for a while. So what did Jongwe do to thank Mathews for the years of inspiration? He smashed him for
After eight seasons without a Ranji Trophy title, Mumbai captain Ajinkya Rahane wants his side to be courageous. Courageous to take 20 wickets, courageous to take risks, courageous to show intent, and all this to culminate in outright wins in the space of four days. Mumbai have done that so far by grabbing bonus-point wins
Bangladesh allrounder Nasir Hossain has been banned from all cricket for two years by the ICC for breaching the Emirates Cricket Board’s Anti-Corruption Code during the 2020-21 Abu Dhabi T10 League. He will be eligible to resume playing international cricket on April 7, 2025. Hossain was one of eight people associated with the Pune Devils
Toss Zimbabwe opt to bowl vs Sri Lanka Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to chase in the second T20I at Khettarama, their captain Sikandar Raza expecting the pitch to get better as the match wears on. Sri Lanka captain Wanindu Hasaranga said he would have batted first anyway. Zimbabwe have not made a change
Opening batter Edward Moore has been added to South Africa’s Test squad for their two-Test series against New Zealand next month. Moore is the eighth uncapped player named in the traveling group, and takes the total squad size to 15. Moore’s call-up comes after Tony de Zorzi became unavailable when he landed an SA20 deal
Big picture: Final T20I crucial and irrelevant at the same time It’s a proud record, and it must mean a lot to India’s players and coaching staff, but what does it actually mean in an attention economy devoted to the ICC event cycle? In one vocal and hard-to-please corner of social media, Sunday’s series-sealing six-wicket
A relieved Sam Harper said his health has turned a corner after suffering a “grim” concussion while training with the Melbourne Stars. The wicketkeeper suffered a laceration on his chin and neck after being struck by a ball on January 5 as he attempted to play a ramp shot while preparing for a Big Bash
The boards of India, England and Australia must act decisively to change the economics of Test cricket or risk more instances of under-strength squads going out on tour. That is the warning from Johnny Grave, the Cricket West Indies CEO, who spoke to ESPNcricinfo last week, amid criticism of both his and South Africa’s boards
The BCCI has invited applications for the post of one national selector for the senior men’s team. However, the board’s advertisement, published on their website, doesn’t specify which of the active selectors would be replaced from the current five-member panel chaired by Ajit Agarkar. The convention has been to pick one selector from each zone
The BCCI has invited applications for the post of one national selector for the senior men’s team. However, the board’s advertisement, published on their website, doesn’t specify which of the active selectors would be replaced from the current five-member panel chaired by Ajit Agarkar. The convention has been to pick one selector from each zone
On paper this looks like the ultimate mismatch. A powerful and successful Australia side, against a West Indies team that will feature at least three debutants and only five players with previous experience in the country. It will probably play out that way, too, but that does not mean there won’t be intrigue along the