12:21 AM GMT Domain, the naming-rights partner for Test cricket, is not the only brand to be exiting Cricket Australia’s suite of sponsors. Mastercard and Specsavers are also on their way out, with Bupa to scale down its commitment and so lose its naming rights sponsorship of the national cricket centre in Brisbane and place
Month: February 2020
National Teams Officer Leigh Mooney takes CATV for a tour through Cricket Australia’s kit room.
22-year-old #WaninduHasaranga scored an unbeaten 42 to guide the hosts to a 1-wicket win.
12:29 PM GMT Mohammad Isam in Mirpur Zimbabwe captain Craig Ervine has said that his batsmen should have taken advantage of the drizzle to stay in the one-off Test against Bangladesh for longer. The visitors were bowled out for 189, eventually losing by an innings and 106 runs. They lasted just 52.3 overs on a
10:13 AM GMT Big picture As the action moves from the leafy surrounds of the SSC to the jungles of the southeast, both teams may ponder their shortcomings from the first game. Neither middle-order quite fired. West Indies lost five wickets for 68 runs while Sri Lanka might reflect they could have done better than
12:29 PM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka have completed 38 ODIs since the start of 2018. In that time, how many individual centuries do you think Sri Lanka batsmen have racked up? The answer is six. Just half a dozen hundreds in a period of more than two years, which included a World Cup.
10:38 AM GMT Corrie van Zyl will return to work at CSA after the completion of his disciplinary process, although his role within the organisation is yet to be announced. Van Zyl was working as interim director of cricket before he was suspended in October last year on allegations of misconduct related to unpaid commercial
Neil Wagner roars in celebration after dismissing Steve Smith © Associated Press Neil Wagner is almost certain to be back in New Zealand’s bowling attack for the second Test against India, which begins in Christchurch on Saturday. Wagner missed the first Test in Wellington on paternity leave, but he will return to the squad on
10:26 AM GMT Virat Kohli is likely to be available for one match for the Asia XI that will take on a World XI in the Bangabandhu 100-year celebration three-match T20I series in Dhaka next month. Kohli is among six Indian players named in the Asia XI, with KL Rahul also slated for a one-match
4:32 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England’s World Cup celebrations have continued with Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler collecting honours at Buckingham Palace. The pair were named alongside their World Cup-winning captain, Eoin Morgan, coach, Trevor Bayliss, and Joe Root on the New Year’s Honours list and received their awards from the Duke of Cambridge, Prince
3:14 PM GMT South Zone completed a hat-trick of BCL titles after beating East Zone by 105 runs in the final in Chittagong. The win came shortly after tea on the fourth day when they bowled out East Zone for 248 runs, with Shafiul Islam and Mahedi Hasan picking up three wickets each. South Zone
2:02 PM GMT Big picture Whatever the outcome in this, the sixth and final match of South Africa’s T20I fortnight, you can be sure they will emerge battle-hardened for the experience of taking on two of the toughest white-ball opponents in the world, if not entirely the wiser as to their own direction of travel
7:57 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies has suspended Jamiaca offspinners John Campbell (a part-time bowler who opened the batting for West Indies in all three formats last year) and Pete Salmon from bowling in domestic West Indies matches with immediate effect, for illegal bowling actions. CWI confirmed that opinion reports from independent assessors
8:25 AM GMT Allrounder Nida Dar has wasted no time in putting her experience of the WBBL to good use as Pakistan prepare to begin their T20 World Cup campaign. Dar became the first Pakistan player to appear in the competition as part of the Sydney Thunder side in this year’s tournament, where she had
7:55 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand’s fledgling pace star Kyle Jamieson was “quite relaxed” leading up to his Test debut, and following his success in that game, he confident there’s “still a lot more to come” from him. Speaking the day after New Zealand thumped India in Wellington, Jamieson spoke of his transition from
1:52 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Over the dominant home season, India’s coach Ravi Shastri talked about taking the pitch and the toss out of equation, which, while lofty, is something for dominant teams to aspire to. To a large extent, India did do that in home Tests, but in away conditions against good teams, tosses
5:53 AM GMT Lunch Zimbabwe 114 for 5 (Raza 33*, Nayeem 3-44) and 265 trail Bangladesh 560 for 6 dec (Rahim 203*, Mominul 132) by 181 runs Bangladesh’s march to victory continued with a couple of vital wickets on the fourth morning in Mirpur. It was the spinners that struck first, with Taijul Islam opening
6:40 PM GMT When Kagiso Rabada earned his fourth active demerit point in a 24-month period and was suspended from the final Test against England last month, his father sent him a little something to make him feel better and it’s not what you might expect. “I sent him a song about the ICC. To
© Getty Images The big boys of New Zealand fast bowling, Trent Boult and Tim Southee, did the business with the old ball to seal their 100th Test win, on the fourth morning at Basin Reserve. Twenty-eight of those wins have come in matches that Boult and Southee have played together. Their pin-point planning and
KL Rahul raises his bat after getting to a hundred © PTI Karnataka will be bolstered by the addition of KL Rahul for their Ranji Trophy 2019-20 semi-final against Bengal at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, after he was included in the 15-man squad for the match starting on February 29. Rahul had asked to
6:02 PM GMT Jos Buttler admits that he cannot continue to be picked on “potential” alone at Test level, after being retained in England’s squad for next month’s tour of Sri Lanka despite an off-colour showing during the recent Test series in South Africa. In the midst of an otherwise upbeat run of performances from
Sri Lanka & West Indies Team’s engaged in practices at SSC
10:52 AM GMT Australia 5 for 123 (Haynes 60, Lanning 41*, Prabodhani 2-17, Siriwardene 2-20) beat Sri Lanka 6 for 122 (Atapattu 50, Sanjeewani 25, Carey 2-18, Strano 2-23) by five wickets Australia are not playing well at all. Australia are still in the T20 World Cup. These two truths were undeniable at the end
4:09 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Peshawar Zalmi will have no case to answer for alleged ball-tampering during their game against Quetta Gladiators, after the PCB confirmed that Quetta had failed to formally make a complaint. Quetta captain Sarfaraz Ahmed‘s claim they had reported what they perceived as ball-tampering by Peshawar has been refuted by the
12:39 PM GMT Sidharth Monga It was quite uncharacteristic of India captain Virat Kohli to bring up the toss unprovoked at the post-match presentation after their 10-wicket loss to New Zealand. Some might be tempted to look at it as an excuse – as was done by Faf du Plessis when South Africa lost in
2:26 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Shikhar Dhawan will look to prove their form and fitness when they return to action in the DY Patil T20 tournament, which began in Mumbai on Monday. The invitations tournament, which is in its 16th edition, is usually utilised by the Indian players to tune
2:12 PM GMT Mushfiqur Rahim has admitted that he had his eyes on a maiden triple-century, but was cut short by a surprising declaration against Zimbabwe late on the third afternoon in Mirpur. Rahim remained unbeaten on 203, his third double-century in Tests and second against Zimbabwe, before Bangladesh took two wickets to put the
2:59 PM GMT Annesha Ghosh in Perth Imagine falling asleep after Australia’s defeat in the T20 World Cup opener against India on Friday and then waking up no sooner than the third over of their 123-chase against Sri Lanka three days later, only to find the four-time winners and defending champions are staring at another
2:11 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand captain Kane Williamson reserved special praise for his team’s fast-bowling trio of Tim Southee, Trent Boult and debutant Kyle Jamieson after their win against India in Wellington. The three quicks took 18 of the 19 wickets taken by the home side in the Test, not allowing India to
6:34 AM GMT New Zealand’s fast bowlers are unmatched when it comes to using the short ball as a defensive option, particularly in home conditions. For the best part of India’s second innings at the Basin Reserve, the hosts’ expert use of shorter lengths on a two-paced pitch with spongy bounce turned the contest into