News Time is a healer, says captain, as prospect of summer training-camp invite remains Eoin Morgan has downplayed the possibility of Alex Hales winning an England recall ahead of the T20 World Cup. Hales recently enjoyed an excellent BBL campaign and continues to hold the record for the highest T20I score by an England player
Report With nothing in the pitch for seam or spin, the duo continued to grind Zimbabwe’s attack down Afghanistan 388 for 3 (Afghan 137*, Shahidi 127*) v Zimbabwe Afghanistan racked up their highest Test score, amassing more than the 342 they scored against Bangladesh in September 2019, on the second day of the second Test
Colin de Grandhomme missed the entirety of New Zealand’s 2020-21 home summer © AFP Colin de Grandhomme is in a race to be fit for New Zealand’s tour of England in June, which includes two Tests against the hosts as well as the World Test Championship final against India, after deciding to undergo surgery on
News Pacer undergoing rehab at NCA, yet to link up with T20I squad T Natarajan may not feature in the T20I series opener against England on March 12 in Ahmedabad. ESPNcricinfo understands Natarajan is currently at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru for his rehabilitation. The NCA is understood to have told the team management
There will be no complaints from Eoin Morgan, irrespective of the conditions England encounter during the T20I series in India. Morgan, England’s limited-overs captain, accepts the tour is likely to prove “a challenge” for his players but, with a T20 World Cup to be played in India towards the end of the year, he knows
The Ageas Bowl has replaced Lord’s as the venue of the World Test Championship final © Getty Images The inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) final, between India and New Zealand, will be held in a bio-secure bubble at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton from June 18 to 22. “The decision, taken by the ICC Board,
News India’s players had a lot to celebrate with the latest update in the ICC rankings The rise of Rishabh Pant continues. He has now secured the highest points tally (747) by any Indian wicketkeeper on the ICC Test batting rankings. That puts him at the joint-seventh place, along with team-mate Rohit Sharma and New
News Tim Southee the only quick in the top ten, which is dominated by spinners Ashton Agar and Ish Sodhi have both moved up in the latest T20I rankings for bowlers following impressive hauls in the recent five-match series between New Zealand and Australia, which New Zealand won 3-2. While left-arm spinner Agar rose four
A T20 superstar at his absolute best, Sri Lankan legend Lasith Malinga destroyed the Perth Scorchers in BBL|02 with figures of 6-7 at the WACA Ground
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As if England were not already rammed with batting options in their T20I squad, the recall of Liam Livingstone for this week’s five-match series in India is a further reminder to the incumbents to take nothing for granted in the lead-up to November’s T20 World Cup. Livingstone may not have played for England since an
IPL 2021: Josh Philippe will not be available for Royal Challengers Bangalore this season.© IPL/Twitter Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have roped in New Zealand wicket-keeper batsman Finn Allen as a replacement for Josh Philippe who will be unavailable for the entire season. Philippe, who made his debut in 2020, played
Report West Indies are led by Kieron Pollard in a side that also includes recent T20I captained Jason Holder Toss Sri Lanka opt to bat against West Indies On an overcast morning with some rain in the air, Sri Lanka have won the toss and decided to bat first. In the first of three ODIs,
News Uncapped New Zealander a like-for-like swap after the Australian makes himself unavailable for the entire 2021 season The Royal Challengers Bangalore have signed uncapped New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Finn Allen as a like-for-like replacement for Josh Philippe who has made himself “unavailable” for the entire IPL 2021. Allen, who had initially found no takers in
Rohit Sharma feels it’s important for Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan to relax and enjoy being part of the Indian team rather than thinking too much and putting themselves under pressure ahead of the T20I series against England, which kicks off on March 12 in Ahmedabad. For both Yadav and Kishan, it’s their first call-up
News Test opener returns to club where he earned his route back to Australia squad in 2019 Cameron Bancroft, the Australia Test opener, will return to Durham for the 2021 season, the club has announced. Bancroft captained Durham in both the County Championship and One Day Cup in 2019, prior to his call-up for that
News England vice-captain also backs return of Alex Hales once trust issues are dealt with Jos Buttler has admitted it would be “bittersweet” to miss the start of England’s home summer in order to play in the knockout stages of the IPL, and said that the prospect of having to choose one over the other
Report Zimbabwe, who won the first Test by ten wickets, have named an unchanged playing XI Afghanistan won the toss and chose to bat vs Zimbabwe Afghanistan welcomed back legspinner Rashid Khan to their Test XI, after he recovered from a finger injury sustained during the PSL, in a bid to square the series against
News Buttler has remodelled his thinking after watching other players What should be at the forefront of a batsman’s mind during a T20 run chase? Conventional wisdom would suggest that the answer is the required run-rate, but for the world’s best players, that might not be the case anymore. Instead, batsmen are now thinking in
Tamim Iqbal was among a large group of Bangladesh players and support staffers to be vaccinated ahead of their departure for New Zealand © Raton Gomes/BCB Bangladesh will play an intra-squad practice match on March 16, during their training camp in Queenstown, their ODI captain Tamim Iqbal said on Wednesday, adding that their spin-bowling coach
News Coach Matthew Mott says they won’t rotate players for the sake of it on the tour of New Zealand Australia are determined not to be “caught out” at next year’s 50-over Women’s World Cup with memories of falling short in 2017 still often referred to by members of the current squad who took part.
Big picture Afghanistan and Zimbabwe have had nearly five days to plan for the second Test after the opener in Abu Dhabi ended inside two days. Zimbabwe are on the brink of a series win, and not just a one-off triumph, for the first time since beating Bangladesh in 2004. For Afghanistan, who’ve only so
Big picture Neither West Indies nor Sri Lanka have much of a recent history of being good at this format. A quick look through stats first. Since the start of 2019, West Indies have lost 21 and won only 13 of their ODIs. Sri Lanka, meanwhile, have done slightly better – 10 wins and 14
South Africa’s revamped two-tiered domestic structure will kick off in the 2021-22 summer with teams divided in two divisions for the first two seasons, after which there will be promotion and relegation. The system brings the curtain down on the franchise set-up that has been in place since 2004-05 and will lead to 75 cricketers
News Rahul Chahar likely to be replacement, while status of Rahul Tewatia – who had also failed fitness tests – is unclear Mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy is set to miss India’s five-match T20I series against England that will take place from March 12 to 20. Chakravarthy is understood to have failed to clear the mandatory
Joey Benjamin, the former Warwickshire, Surrey and England seam bowler, has died at the age of 60 after suffering a heart attack. Benjamin, whose solitary Test appearance at The Oval in 1994 would prove to be one of England’s most memorable victories of the decade, claimed 387 first-class wickets in an 11-year career that began
Report Islam picked three wickets while Hassan struck 125 to anchor the chase Saif Hassan played a captain’s innings to power Bangladesh Emerging Team to a six-wicket win against Ireland Wolves in the third one-dayer in Chattogram. Hassan struck 120 off 125 balls, hitting eleven fours and five sixes, as he first played the enforcer
A couple of pummeled sixes from Glenn Phillips, depositing Adam Zampa’s leg breaks well into the outer of the Cake Tin, brought Australia’s men’s international season to an end with a thud. This was not unfitting, since much of the preceding six months had been similarly brutal in terms of exposing where the national team
Akhtar, Johnson, Akram, Tait, Morkel… there’s some SERIOUS heat in this video as we asked our top male players: who’s the quick you’d least like to face?