2:59 AM GMT Malcolm Speed, the former Cricket Australia chief executive, believes the incumbent Kevin Roberts has “stumbled” in trying to explain how the game’s finances have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and also stressed that any chief executive must work to build respect rather than popularity. CA is now attempting to deal with
Month: April 2020
Apr 25, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin has said that he is “fighting my own benchmarks” because his Test performances overseas are being measured against his heroics in India. Despite being the country’s best long-form spinner in this decade, there has been only one instance of Ashwin playing every match of a Test series held
5:44 AM GMT There remain more questions than answers about how the next Australia cricket season will look due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but Australia batter Beth Mooney believes the Women’s Big Bash could be a success as a domestic players only event if international travel remained restricted. The WBBL would be
Australia legend Steve Waugh looks back on one of the most disciplined Test innings of all time, when Sachin Tendulkar refused to play a favourite shot
38.6: Rangana Herath to Younis Khan Catches, Younis pushed forward to defend and he played that down into his boot. It went straight up off his boot and Silva dived forward from silly point, caught it one-handed, and flung it immediately to the keeper.
9:48 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan Women allrounder Sana Mir has announced her retirement from international cricket, bringing an end to a 15-year career. Mir, who made her international debut in 2005, took 151 wickets in 120 ODIs and 89 wickets in 106 T20Is. Last November, Mir had taken a break from international cricket and
11:42 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff With the ECB having confirmed the English season will now not begin until July 1 at the earliest, cricket’s options for the summer are beginning to narrow. Here we go through some of the key issues for the game, following a briefing by the ECB’s chief executive, Tom Harrison. Fate
2:04 AM GMT What’s the latest situation at Cricket Australia? The majority of staff, approximately 200, will be stood down next week on 20% of their salary or the equivalent of the Australian government’s JobKeeper payment of A$1500 per fortnight, which was introduced to help companies during the pandemic, until the end of the financial
5:19 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Graeme Watson, the former Australia allrounder who was battling cancer, has died at the age of 75. Primarily a middle-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler, he played five Tests from 1967 to 1972 and two ODIs in 1972. After starting his domestic career at Victoria, Watson earned an Australia call-up
Watch the dramatic scenes unfold in the Australian camp as Jofra Archer took on Steve Smith during the Ashes in this exclusive sneak peek of ‘The Test’, premiering on Amazon Prime in March
3:27 PM GMT A movement appears to have begun urging the PCB to reintegrate Saleem Malik, the former batsman and captain who was banned for life in 2000 after being found guilty of attempting to fix a Test in Justice Qayyum’s report. It has gained prominence with support from Inzamam-ul-Haq and Saqlain Mushtaq and has
2:30 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff As far as Harbhajan Singh is concerned, MS Dhoni will never play for India again. Harbhajan, who trained with Dhoni in March at the Chennai Super Kings’ preparatory camp for the IPL, said the former India captain had “played enough” for India. Recently, as soon as the BCCI postponed the
5:27 PM GMT The ECB has been asked by the UK government to lead the way into investigating the viability of playing sport in a bio-secure environment. With an increasing acceptance that the best chance of fulfilling the broadcast deals that keep nearly all sport afloat is by playing fixtures behind closed doors, the Department
3:49 PM GMT India 275 for 4 (Tendulkar 134, Azharuddin 58, Fleming 2-47, Kasprowicz 2-48) beat Australia 272 for 9 (S Waugh 70, Lehmann 70, Prasad 2-32, Kanitkar 2-58, Agarkar 2-61) by six wickets Is sport at its best when it throws up the unpredictable? Or does it reach its heights when a genius shows
9:15 AM GMT The ECB has announced that no professional cricket will be played in England and Wales until July 1 at the earliest due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but is yet to confirm the postponement of the Hundred’s inaugural season. The ECB board met on Thursday to confirm the holding date for the start
8:04 AM GMT International exemptions to allow an India touring party to arrive in Australia next summer would be seriously considered by the federal government in the event of wider travel bans, strongly suggesting that Cricket Australia will be able to avoid losing up to A$300 million in revenue in the wake of the coronavirus
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar padded up for the first time in five and a half years for a good cause – Sunday’s Bushfire Cricket Bash charity match, raising funds for those effected by the Australian bushfires.
Follow the 2019 Ashes at ecb.co.uk Watch match highlights from Day 1 at Edgbaston, as England and Australia kicked of the Ashes in eventful style. This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and England and Wales Cricket Board. Including highlights, interviews, features getting you
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Peter Handscomb was appointed Middlesex captain in November © Quinn Rooney/Getty Images Under normal circumstances, Peter Handscomb would have just finished leading Middlesex in their second County Championship fixture of the season against Glamorgan. Instead, the closest he has come to his new team is phone calls from the other side of the world with
© ICC via Getty It’s difficult enough having to decide if you will risk fielding your team’s premier allrounder in a World Cup semi-final after they the player has taken ill, but that decision was made even tougher for South Africa captain Dané van Niekerk because that player is also her wife. Marizanne Kapp, the
2:44 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Pakistan opener Imam-ul-Haq is sceptical of playing international cricket without fans at venues, terming it “strange”. He believed it would see much of cricket’s charm lost, particularly if the T20 World Cup, scheduled to begin in October in Australia, was played in empty stadiums. Imam is the first Pakistan player
5:29 PM GMT Osman Samiuddin Close Senior editor, ESPNcricinfo Osman spent the first half of his life pretending he discovered reverse swing with a tennis ball half-covered with electrical tape. The second half of his life was spent trying, and failing, to find spiritual fulfillment in the world of Pakistani advertising and marketing. The third
6:06 PM GMT Abu Dhabi is set to emerge as a potential venue as attempts are made to salvage some cricket from a ravaged English season. ESPNcricinfo understands Abu Dhabi Cricket (ADC) is set to contact the ECB to offer its facilities for use between October and January. The offer could extend to both county
2:06 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Essex have announced that Peter Siddle‘s contract has been deferred to 2021 on account of the coronavirus pandemic. Siddle, 35, had been due to spend a third season as the club’s overseas player in the County Championship and the Royal London Cup, but following the postponement of the campaign and
3:35 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Gayle will represent St Lucia Zouks in the 2020 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season, after Jamaica Tallawahs chose not to retain him. In February, the St Lucia franchise was purchased by KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited, Kings XI Punjab’s parent company, and appointed Andy Flower as head coach. Gayle
10:33 AM GMT New Zealand cricket, run on an annual revenue of about NZ$60 million a year (approx. US$35 million), confirmed it has not stood down a single employee during the coronavirus pandemic, as Australian cricket’s state association owners and player partners pleaded with CA for more financial information about the governing body’s self-declared cash
9:15 AM GMT The ECB board meets on Thursday to discuss options for the rest of the season. Here, we look at the likely outcomes… The Hundred The Hundred’s future is uncertain Getty Images It now looks almost certain that the Hundred’s launch will be pushed back 12 months. With budgets tight, the availability of overseas
9:09 AM GMT Big picture It is said often that cricket is an individual pursuit masquerading as a team sport. On April 22, Sachin Tendulkar proved and disproved it at the same time. Having fielded and bowled in the crazy heat of a Sharjah April afternoon, Tendulkar dipped his feet in ice to manage the
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