News New Zealand allrounder available for nine group-stage games as replacement for Mitchell Marsh Middlesex have further strengthened their squad for this year’s Vitality Blast by bringing in New Zealand allrounder Daryl Mitchell. Having signed Paul Stirling for the start of the tournament, Mitchell will come in for the last nine group games. The pair
News He is expected to fill in for Ravi Shastri, who will be with the Test squad in the UK Rahul Dravid is likely to tour Sri Lanka in July as the head coach of India’s limited-overs squads, ESPNcricinfo has learned. The BCCI is yet to make the formal announcement but Dravid is expected to
Boyd Rankin, the former Ireland and England seamer, has announced his retirement from international and inter-provincial cricket. Rankin made his Ireland debut in 2003, and won the last of his 153 caps in a T20I against Afghanistan in Greater Noida last year. In between the 6ft 8in seamer also played for England, winning a Test
Mushfiqur Rahim has spilt a total of ten catches in the last three years in white-ball cricket internationally. © AFP via Getty Images Tamim Iqbal has backed Mushfiqur Rahim to continue as Bangladesh’s No. 1 wicketkeeper for the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka, beginning Sunday in Dhaka. Despite sloppy work from Rahim behind the
News Acknowledges that the three Tests are in quick succession but says, “we have had a chance to prepare physically leading into this” Tim Southee believes that workload management would not be a concern for New Zealand as they gear up to play three Tests – a two-match series against England followed by the World
News Saha has just recovered from Covid-19, which he contracted during the IPL Andhra wicketkeeper-batter KS Bharat has been included as a standby for Wriddhiman Saha for India’s tour of England comprising the World Test Championship final against New Zealand and the five-Test series against the hosts. Saha had recently recovered from Covid-19. Bharat reached
News Hard-fought 43 on return to Warwickshire team, but fielding may be key test Dom Sibley admitted his frustration at getting out for 43 on his return to action after a broken finger, but believes his attritional two-and-a-half hour stay has gone a long way towards proving his readiness for the first Test against New
The ECB is yet to respond to the BCCI’s request.© AFP The Board of Cricket Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has written to their English counterparts asking for the Test series between India and England to be rescheduled to start a week earlier than planned with an eye on creating a window for the
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News Cites her ability to demoralise opponents as key quality India Women’s outgoing head coach WV Raman believes 17-year-old opener Shafali Verma‘s game-changer of a batting approach could “demoralise” opposition bowlers in Test cricket too. Verma, who has so far represented India only in T20Is, is part of the ODI and Test squads as well
The series opener is set to be played from August 4 as things stand © Getty Images Desperate to stage the remainder of the 2021 IPL, the BCCI has put in a late request to the ECB to prepone the start of the five-Test series by a week. ESPNcricinfo understands the request was put in
Tamim Iqbal wants Bangladesh to keep their eyes on the ball, both literally and figuratively, in their bid to turn a corner halfway through a dismal year. His biggest worry is the side’s fielding ahead of their ODI series against Sri Lanka, which is viewed as a must-win assignment with qualification for the 2023 World
Australia Women have a bumper home summer ahead, with a multi-format series against India preceding the Ashes against England. Speaking to the media on Thursday, allrounder Ellyse Perry looked ahead to the busy summer, which includes a day-night Test at the WACA. On playing Test cricket at the WACA and against IndiaIt’s absolutely wonderful and
News Kiran Pal Singh had been undergoing treatment at hospitals in New Delhi and Meerut Bhuvneshwar Kumar‘s father, Kiran Pal Singh, died on Thursday at his Meerut residence. He had been suffering from liver cancer. Kiran Pal Singh, 63, was first detected with the illness in September 2020. It is understood that Bhuvneshwar’s return from
News Majority of the previous set of office bearers were voted in uncontested, will hold positions for two years Shammi Silva has been elected Sri Lanka Cricket president again, after he and the majority of the previous set of office bearers were voted in uncontested. They will hold these positions for two years. Silva’s faction,
News The PCB has received all pending approvals and exemptions from the emirate to host the tournament there The remainder of PSL 2021 is set to go ahead in Abu Dhabi in June, with the PCB receiving pending approvals and exemptions from the emirate to host the tournament there. The PSL management will now talk
News Al Amin Hossain, Hasan Mahmud, Rubel Hossain and Nasum Ahmed also miss out from the New Zealand tour party Najmul Hossain Shanto has been omitted from Bangladesh’s ODI squad for the first two matches of their three-match series against Sri Lanka. Shanto is one of five exclusions from the large white-ball squad that toured
News Australia seamer to return home after just one game for new club Billy Stanlake‘s spell in county cricket with Derbyshire has been cut short after one game, with the Australia seamer diagnosed with a back stress fracture. Stanlake made his Derbyshire debut in last week’s defeat to Essex at Chelmsford, recovering from a nervy
Kyle Jamieson has picked up 36 wickets in six Tests so far © Getty Images New Zealand allrounder Kyle Jamieson is wary of expecting too much assistance from the Dukes ball on New Zealand’s tour of England, saying that it could “hurt” their team’s chances if their pacers get carried away by chasing its fabled
Nagarajan Niranjana played a starring role in India’s victory against England in the Wormsley Test in 2014 © Getty Images Niranjana Nagarajan remembers the summer of 2014 for many reasons. In March that year, she had to pull out of the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup on the eve of their departure for
The PSL season was postponed midway due to the COVID-19 pandemic.© Instagram Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the six franchise owners on Wednesday discussed in a virtual session the operational planning and delivery of the remaining 20 Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches, which are scheduled to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from
James Anderson got the ball talking in the Adelaide Test of the 2017-18 Ashes, claiming his first five-wicket haul in Australia
News Eleven players and support staff received their first dose, while two squad members received their second dose Thirteen members of West Indies’ red-ball training squad and management have received their vaccinations against Covid-19, CWI confirmed on Wednesday. The West Indies players and support staff are currently in a bio-secure bubble in St Lucia, preparing
Dhananjaya de Silva and Niroshan Dickwella have been offered the most lucrative deals in Sri Lanka Cricket’s new player contract scheme for men, which sees players take significant cuts to their base salaries. The players do, however, have more to gain via performance-based incentives, compared to previous contracts. There is also a reduction in the
News Her multiple positions attracted scrutiny under PCB’s new ethics code Urooj Mumtaz has left her position as PCB’s head of women’s cricket, with the board set to begin their search for a replacement. Mumtaz had not been engaged in the role full-time, with the former cricketer holding multiple positions, including that of the chief
News “I think there will be a lot of cricket boards around the world that’d be pretty nervous about going back to India” Having just returned to Australia after recovering from Covid-19 that he picked up during his IPL coaching stint in India, former Australia batter Mike Hussey believes the UAE should be looked at
News All contingent members will spend the first three days in hotel room isolation in Southampton The majority of the New Zealand Test contingent landed in London on Sunday after flying from Auckland via Singapore, for their tour of two Tests against the hosts and the World Test Championship final against India next month. The
Boucher called de Villiers’ decision “unfortunate” © AFP/Getty Images Mark Boucher, the head coach of the South Africa men’s side, has revealed that AB de Villiers was not comfortable returning to the national squad in place of a player already in the system, effectively taking that spot. A day after de Villiers told CSA “once
News It is understood the emirate is ready for the PSL to happen on its shores as long as all involved are vaccinated The PCB is to hold a meeting with the six PSL franchises today, during which a final decision is expected on the fate of this season’s PSL. One of the main hurdles,
James Bracey, the Gloucestershire wicketkeeper-batter, and Ollie Robinson, the Sussex seamer, are in line for Test debuts against New Zealand next month, after being named in England’s 15-man squad for the two-match series, starting at Lord’s on June 2. Both players have been rewarded for their patience in travelling as reserves during England’s bio-secures campaigns