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
Kusal Perera is almost certain to be out of Sri Lanka’s series against India, after picking up a shoulder injury. The team has not divulged the exact nature of the injury, nor withdrawn him officially, but a team doctor says he’s likely to be out for six weeks. Although Perera is no longer captain, having
Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, has defended his board’s decision to relax the bio-secure environments that were a feature of England’s behind-closed-doors campaign in the 2020 home season, arguing that the mental health and well-being of the players in its competitions requires the game to “learn to live” with Covid-19, rather than seek to
News Sean Williams and Craig Ervine not back yet, Brendan Taylor to captain against Bangladesh Allrounder Sikandar Raza is back for Zimbabwe following four months on the sidelines while he recovered from a serious bone-marrow infection. Raza was picked in a squad of 16 that will take on Bangladesh at home in a three-match ODI
News Former fast bowler says they were in part responsible for his exclusion from the XI at the 2007 World Cup South African cricket was controlled by a clique of white players nicknamed “the big five,” according to former fast bowler Roger Telemachus. Testifying at the Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) hearings, Telemachus explained how
Ramesh Powar, the India Women head coach, has underlined two key areas as the team builds into a busy seven-month stretch leading into the 50-overs World Cup in February 2022: widening India’s fast-bowling pool and improving their middle-overs batting. India fielded only four fast bowlers across formats in England. In her comeback series, Shikha Pandey
News Marsh continued his fine form in the series with a player-of-the-match display When Fabian Allen kept depositing the ball in the stands in the penultimate over, bowled by Riley Meredith, at Daren Sammy Stadium, it seemed as though one of Mitchell Marsh‘s best nights in coloured clothes for Australia might not end in victory.
News The head coach said previous series results had convinced him Pakistan were on the right track After losing 3-0 to England’s second-string side, Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq has admitted he was left shell-shocked, citing the “poor performance” as a collective failure of the players and support staff. He said he was left looking for
News The three-day match starting July 20 will feature “a number of players from the county circuit”, a Durham Cricket release said India are set to play a three-day warm-up match starting July 20 against a County Select XI at Chester-le-Street in Durham. India will use the Riverside Ground “as a home venue for their
Report Jason Behrendorff comes in for Josh Hazlewood as Australia’s one change Australia won the toss and decided to bat against West Indies For the fourth time in the series Aaron Finch won the toss and he opted to bat as Australia seek their first victory on the tour. They made one change with left-arm
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India will once again not play Pakistan in the second cycle of World Test Championship with three away tours lined up in the next two years, starting with the England series next month. As per rule, each of the nine nations in the World Test Championship calendar play against six nations of their choice and
News He bowled 23 wicketless overs of offspin during the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Harare Zimbabwe’s offspinning-allrounder Roy Kaia has been reported with a suspect bowling action during the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Harare. Kaia bowled a combined 23 overs across two innings without picking up a wicket. With bat, he bagged a
Report India have the chance to draw level on points if they win this match at Chelmsford Toss India chose to bat first vs England India won the toss and chose to bat first in last of three T20Is against England, which also marks the end of their multi-format series. India have the chance to
News In a letter to the board, he says “past greats of SL have shown 2nd half of the career is where greater performances are made” Sri Lanka batter Dinesh Chandimal has asked SLC and its technical committee for clarity about his future in the national team. In a letter addressed to the head of
Saqib Mahmood has credited England’s management for enabling the team’s new faces to play the same “fearless” brand of cricket that won the World Cup two years ago today, after earning a recall to the T20I set-up off the back of his 50-over performances. Saqib was named Player of the Series for his haul of
News He has been given a two-year contract by the Odisha Cricket Association Former Test opener and domestic veteran Wasim Jaffer was on Wednesday named chief coach of the Odisha senior side for the upcoming domestic season. “He (Jaffer) will be the head coach. He has been given a two-year contract,” Subrata Behera, Odisha Cricket
News Clubs can start building their lists for the tournament which will begin on December 5 The proposed BBL draft for overseas players has been postponed for another year due to the ongoing uncertainties created by the pandemic. Initially pushed back from the 2020-21 season, it had been hoped to get the system up and
News The spinner didn’t play a single game at the 2014 T20 World Cup or the 2015 50-over World Cup Aaron Phangiso played a key role in advocating for South Africa’s reserve players to be paid a portion of match fees to ensure that those who do not play many matches on tour, such as
News Ben Stokes rested after stand-in role in ODIs, as Buttler returns alongside other senior players Saqib Mahmood and Lewis Gregory have been rewarded for their stellar performances in England’s 3-0 ODI series win over Pakistan with recalls to the T20I squad, as Eoin Morgan returns to lead the side alongside eight others who were