News The allrounder remains hopeful of finding a place in the T20 World Cup squad Daniel Sams remains comfortable with the decision to make himself unavailable for the tour of West Indies and Bangladesh to prioritise his mental health after the challenges of the IPL, which included catching Covid-19 before the tournament. Sams ended up
News “Sometimes though you just have to grin and bear it, and captaining England is one of those reasons” Ben Stokes has revealed he has had a pain-killing steroid injection in his left index finger after playing through “ridiculous” pain during England’s ODI series win against Pakistan. Stokes had fractured the finger in mid-April while
Preview Bangladesh look the better side, but if Zimbabwe’s batters come good, they could well script a bounceback Big picture For two successive games now – in the one-off Test and the first ODI – Zimbabwe have had a great start with the ball but have failed to build on the advantage, allowing Bangladesh to
News The visitors are already without many players who would make up their usual ODI top order Australia will monitor the fitness of captain Aaron Finch ahead of the ODI series against West Indies after he picked up a knee injury during the final T20I in St Lucia. Finch twisted his knee in the field
Boucher – “We knew from the start that if we don’t rock up here in these conditions, which they know well, we’ll be found out” © Sportsfile via Getty Images The pressures of being in a bio-bubble amid unrest in South Africa is taking its toll on the national team, who shared the three-match ODI
News The player is in quarantine and will not travel with the team to Durham on Thursday One of the 23 India cricketers on the ongoing tour of England has tested positive for COVID-19 during the team’s 20-day break and will not be travelling with the team to Durham on Thursday. The news comes in
This is not the first time Shakib has become Bangladesh’s highest ODI wicket-taker © Getty Images Shakib Al Hasan became Bangladesh’s highest wicket-taker in ODIs when he dismissed Brendan Taylor in the first ODI against Zimbabwe in Harare. The left-arm spin-bowling allrounder overtook Mashrafe Mortaza‘s tally of 269 with a ball that deceived the batter,
Report Mitchell Swepson and Andrew Tye get their first outings of the series West Indies won the toss and decided to bat against Australia West Indies won the toss and opted to bat first in the finale of the five-match T20I series against Australia at Daren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia. Middle-order batter Darren Bravo
Former England captain Kevin Pietersen sat down with Cricket Network and named his top 5 batsmen from his playing days
Find out more at ecb.co.uk Watch match highlights from the 3rd Vitality IT20 between England and India at The CloudFM County Ground, Chelmsford 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
45 CAB cricketers have been withheld from further participation till resolving of disputes.© AFP The Cricket Association of Bengal on Friday decided to introduce a unique biometric code after 65 players from the state were identified with disputed documents. Of the 65 players identified, 45 players have been withheld from further participation till resolving of
Report Morgan rings changes in bid to test bench-strength before T20 World Cup Toss England win toss, bowl first vs Pakistan England won the toss and chose to bowl first in the first of three T20Is against Pakistan at Trent Bridge. England, who swept the ODI series 3-0 earlier this week with a second-string side,
Batter Bhanuka Rajapaksa was penalised for a breach of contract and put on probation for two years © Getty Images Bhanuka Rajapaksa, who was fined by SLC earlier this month for a breach of contract, has been named in the 25-member Sri Lanka squad for the rescheduled ODI and T20I series at home against India
News India fast bowler “just working normally, trying to prepare in a way that I’m ready for all formats” Bhuvneshwar Kumar isn’t ready to prioritise one format over another just yet. While Virat Kohli has often underlined the importance of a fit Bhuvneshwar to India across formats, his exclusion from the England tour led to
News “I batted like in a Test match for the first 20-25 overs. The situation wasn’t in our favour” Bangladesh’s basic batting plan for the last six years, at least, has been to ask one of their top three batters to anchor the innings till the 40th over at a steady pace, by letting the
The last time India and Pakistan faced off, in Manchester in the 2019 50-over World Cup © PA Images via Getty Images More than two years after they faced off in the 2019 50-over World Cup, India and Pakistan will meet in a global tournament, again, this time in the Super 12s stage of the
Report No changes for Ireland, visitors bring in Quinton de Kock and Heinrich Klaasen as well Toss South Africa won the toss and chose to bat vs Ireland South Africa elected to bat in the third and final ODI against Ireland on a sunny day in Malahide, where the weather forced Cricket Ireland to caution
Preview Hayden Walsh Jr will look to cap his memorable series with more wickets Big Picture The fourth match of the series was a thoroughly entertaining T20 from start to finish: plenty of thundering strokeplay, some impressive spin bowling, an astonishing late onslaught and then a classy final over as Australia clung on for a
Report After Knight’s 88, West Indies Women collapse from 171 for 2 to 210 all out Pakistan Women 211 for 6 (Sohail 61, Selamn 2-34, Matthews 2-46) beatWest Indies Women 210 (Knight 88, Taylor 49, Sana 4-30, Sandhu 4-49) by four wickets Fatima Sana and Nashra Sandhu’s four-wicket hauls guided Pakistan Women to victory against
News A senior coach and two players have been identified as close contacts, and asked to quarantine in London for ten days After Rishabh Pant, four more members of the Indian contingent in England have been forced to quarantine – in London for ten days – following one of the members of the support staff
Report Brendan Taylor became the fifth Zimbabwe cricketer to 200 ODIs, after Andy Flower, Grant Flower, Elton Chigumbura and Hamilton Masakadza Zimbabwe win the toss and bowl first vs Bangladesh Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor decided to field first after winning the toss against Bangladesh in the first ODI in Harare. Playing his 200th ODI, Taylor
News The legspinner’s 2 for 20 was a key part of Australia’s victory in the fourth game With West Indies surging away in their chase on the fourth T20I, threatening to make a mockery of Australia’s 189, Adam Zampa went to Aaron Finch and told him he wanted to bowl inside the Powerplay. It hadn’t
Preview Whitewashing by second-string ODI team leaves visitors short of answers Big Picture English eyeballs might have primarily focused on football heartache over the past week, but those who tuned into the cricket received the fillip they might have craved. An ad-hoc English squad cobbled together from a motley crew of country cricket staples and
News Allrounder writes to BCA asking to be “relieved” with immediate effect Allrounder Deepak Hooda has decided to leave Baroda. ESPNcricinfo understands that Hooda, who had been banned for the 2020-21 season in January by the Baroda Cricket Association for “indiscipline“, wrote to the BCA on July 12 asking to be “relieved” with immediate effect
Big Picture Ireland are one win away from their biggest ODI achievement on home soil. Victory over South Africa in the third ODI will be the first time they take a series off a team ranked in the top eight, the first time they beat a top eight team in successive matches, and their first
The Sydney Sixers only needed one point for the minor premiership but thanks to a terrific all-round performance they claimed all four, their five-wicket win keeping the Stars from a finals place
Tom Harrison, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Thursday said that the board decided to give relaxations in the bio-bubble looking at players’ welfare and their mental health. Earlier, three England players and four members of the support staff tested positive for COVID-19, and as a result, the management had
Preview Brendan Taylor to lead, with Zimbabwe set to make a slew of changes Big Picture The one-off Test in Harare wasn’t part of the World Test Championship, neither are the T20Is at the end of the tour of any particular consequence. But these three ODIs carry much more significance for both sides. They are
News Batter free to resume career in wake of incident in Powys in 2020 Joe Clarke will be free to resume his career after a charge of affray was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service. Clarke, the Nottinghamshire top-order batter, appeared at Welshpool Magistrates’ Court in June charged with affray following an incident in Powys
News Rotation in prospect as England seek to fine-tune squad options before ICC deadline England are prepared to give opportunities to fringe players and tweak their usual plans in this week’s T20I series against Pakistan, which Eoin Morgan has said they are treating as their “last chance” to look at options ahead of October’s T20