News Mitchell Santner, meanwhile, has been ruled out of the next game with a finger injury New Zealand spin-bowling allrounder Mitchell Santner has been sidelined from the Edgbaston Test with a finger injury. His captain Kane Williamson is also under an injury cloud, having sustained an elbow niggle ahead of the second Test, which starts
James Anderson takes a breather in training at Edgbaston © Getty Images James Anderson says that England’s players are committed to “improving ourselves as people”, as the build-up towards Thursday’s second LV= Insurance Test against New Zealand at Edgbaston continues to be overshadowed by Ollie Robinson‘s suspension for a series of historic offensive posts on
News Seamer returns to Australia after playing in six Championship matches Peter Siddle has returned to Australia for personal reasons, cutting short his spell in county cricket with Essex. The former Australia seamer, who was awarded his county cap last month, had been expected to play a full season at Chelmsford, after his 2020 deal
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James Anderson said on Tuesday England’s cricketers were trying to learn lessons during a “difficult time” after paceman Ollie Robinson was suspended over historical racist and sexist tweets. Robinson’s international career is on hold after last week’s successful Test debut against New Zealand pending an England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) investigation into social media
News Solitary change to 17-person group ahead of home series against India Sophia Dunkley, the South East Stars allrounder, has replaced Kirstie Gordon in the only change to England Women’s central contracts list for the year 2021-22. Dunkley has played in each of England’s last five T20Is after impressing in the bio-secure bubble in Derby
News Cameron Green, Ben McDermott, Nathan Ellis, Wes Agar and Ashton Turner have been added to the line-up as well Dan Christian has been added to the initial Australia white-ball squad ahead of the tours of the West Indies and Bangladesh. The selectors have brought in six further names to the large preliminary group of
News The allrounder is now back with the New Zealand squad and has no plans to ditch the captaincy New Zealand captain Sophie Devine has opened up on her decision to take a break from the game at the end of last season, with her fatigue having reached a point where she did not feel
News Allrounder in line for first Durham appearance since 2018 after finger injury Ben Stokes is set to play his first T20 Blast game for nearly three years next week when he makes his comeback from the finger injury he suffered in the IPL. The early stages of the Blast, which begins on Wednesday, will
News SLC commits to making evaluation marks available to each player upon UK return Sri Lanka’s men’s cricketers have agreed to tour England uncontracted, after Sri Lanka Cricket committed to revealing specifics about the player evaluations that form the basis of the board’s new proposed contract scheme. The cricketers have long contended that the methodology
News Unnamed player was under 16 at the time of offensive social media posts More historic tweets of a discriminatory nature from a player involved with the England men’s squad have emerged. A day after the ECB announced the suspension of Ollie Robinson pending a disciplinary investigation, Wisden.com published tweets from another player within the
News Senior Bangladesh batter will be available for the one-off Test and the three ODIs Mushfiqur Rahim has informed Bangladesh’s selectors that he wants to opt out of playing the T20Is against Zimbabwe next month. The BCB hasn’t approved his request yet but in recent months they have been understanding of the strain placed on
In a snippet from the upcoming documentary series ‘The Test’, see how the Australian players dealt with the rowdy England fans during the away Ashes tour. Don’t miss The Test, streaming March 12 on Amazon Prime Video.
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England were fined 40 per cent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate.© AFP Joe Root-led England on Monday were fined 40 per cent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate against New Zealand in the first Test at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Chris Broad of the ICC Elite Panel of Match
News Boult is out of isolation “three or four days earlier than expected,” coach Gary Stead says Trent Boult is firming as a chance to play the second Test against England at Edgbaston starting June 10, having previously only been inked in for the World Test Championship final against India. Boult joined the New Zealand
News Yorkshire spinner called in as cover with Jack Leach in line for recall England have added Dom Bess to their squad for the second LV= Insurance Test against New Zealand at Edgbaston. Bess, the offspinning allrounder, has effectively been called up to provide cover for Jack Leach. While Leach, England’s first-choice spinner, is understood
News Brothers Union captain said they played “a bit of mind game” with the batter, after the extraordinary finish Brothers Union 139 for 5 (Rahman 68, Ferdous 26, Islam 2-23) beat Old DOHS Sports Club 137 for 3 (Emon 64, Joy 34, Khan 1-14) by two runs You had to see it to believe it.
News The visitors made a very positive declaration on the final day but the pitch did not deteriorate as expected New Zealand were left to rue a day lost to rain as their attempts to engineer victory came up short at Lord’s, but captain Kane Williamson praised the “superb cricket” played by his team after
Report NZ make enterprising declaration after stalemate looked set following third-day washout England 275 (Burns 132, Southee 6-43) and 170 for 3 (Sibley 60*, Wagner 2-27) drew with New Zealand 378 (Conway 200, Nicholls 61, Robinson 4-75) and 169 for 6 dec (Latham 36, Robinson 3-26) There are often many different ways to end up
The County Championship now takes a break for a month as the T20 Blast takes over the domestic scene, so here’s a recap of how the Australians have go so far Matches: 1; Runs: 40 | Wickets: 2Abbott had his season ended after one game when he suffered a hamstring injury against Gloucestershire on debut.
News Azam’s rise has also been accompanied by constant talk around his fitness levels and weight Pakistan’s long, ongoing search for power-hitting options in their middle order has now landed on Quetta Gladiators’ Azam Khan. Pakistan have struggled for firepower in their middle order, in part because the top-order form of Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan
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Former Australia skipper Ian Chappell believes that Ravichandran Ashwin is a better spinner as compared to Nathan Lyon. Chappell also highlighted how Lyon is scored off through the onside when he is bowling to the right-handers and this is why Ashwin has an edge over Lyon. Ashwin has taken 409 wickets in 78 Tests at
News Southee picked up five of the eight England wickets to fall on the fourth day Tim Southee said New Zealand had not given up on the possibility of forcing victory at Lord’s, despite a day being lost to rain. The visiting side have made the running in the first Test, with Southee’s six-wicket haul
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News Temperatures in Multan have touched over 40 degrees over the past week Rising summer temperatures have led to the PCB shifting a training camp of Pakistan Women from Multan to Karachi. Last week, ESPNcricinfo had highlighted how big a challenge the extreme weather – where temperatures have hovered over 42 degrees Celsius – would
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News Thirty-eight Sri Lanka players have signed a statement refusing to sign the tour contracts offered by SLC Sri Lanka’s tour of England has been cast into serious jeopardy after the players expected to be selected refused to sign the tour contracts offered by Sri Lanka Cricket. This is as part of the men’s cricketers’