Fox Cricket had the sump mic turned up plenty during the recent Domain test series between Australia and India, here’s some of the moments that grabbed people’s attention
Month: April 2020
Follow the 2019 Ashes at ecb.co.uk Ben Stokes played arguably the greatest innings of all time as England win Headingley thriller by one wicket to keep their Ashes hopes alive. Watch match highlights from Day 4 at Headingley Carnegie, as England take on Australia in the 2019 Ashes. Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is
Sri Lankan captain #LasithMalinga entered the singular immortality as the greatest fast bowler of all-time becoming the only bowler in international cricket history to claim two four-wicket hat-tricks in four balls with the incredible figures of 5 wickets for 6 runs in a facile 37-run routing of New Zealand in the third T20 at the
© AFP In middle of a global lockdown, international and domestic West Indies players are facing another challenge with Cricket West Indies (CWI) not paying their match fees since January this year that would under normal circumstances have been due for payment at the end of February 2020. The main reason for the delay in
5:10 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan’s tour to the Netherlands has been postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was taken in light of the Dutch government’s decision to ban all sports and cultural events in the country till September 1, with KNCB confirming the country will host no international cricket this summer.
4:59 PM GMT Chris Woakes says that England’s cricketers would be open to playing behind closed doors in a bid to get the international game back up and running after the Covid-19 outbreak, but concedes that his own focus would have to be on the Test and ODI squads over T20s if the plan to
6:23 PM GMT Cricket has never faced a crisis quite like this. With much of the world still deep in Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns, administrators are facing an unprecedented situation. At some point in the near future, sport will resume but in what form, when and where exactly, no-one knows. On Thursday, the chief executives of
10:22 AM GMT The ECB have asked Barry O’Brien, the former Glamorgan chairman, to lead a review into the circumstances around Ian Watmore’s appointment as chairman. The review comes after the Daily Mail reported that Watmore left his role as chief executive of the Football League following allegations of misconduct. Specifically, the paper suggests Watmore
3:21 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Tammy Beaumont says the nature of England’s exit from the Women’s T20 World Cup will sting for a long time to come. Having lost their opening match to South Africa, England finished second in their group and had their semi-final against India abandoned without a ball being bowled because of
2:35 AM GMT Stood down staff at Cricket Australia may find themselves working at Woolworths after the chief executive Kevin Roberts approached the supermarket giant and cricket sponsor about temporary work opportunities amid the coronavirus pandemic. Roberts, who has maintained there is a united front in cricket about cash-saving decisions including mass staff stand downs
Find out more at ecb.co.uk From a flying Yasir to a Stokes Ashes stunner, from a Root/Vince rebound to James Taylor defying belief, we’ve got it all in this Test Match top ten. But no top ten would be complete without some debate and disagreement, so if you think that another one should be in
5:43 PM GMT Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom is confident that some international cricket will be played this summer, but has conceded that New Zealand’s scheduled tour to Europe in June looks “fairly doubtful”. Deutrom said that his board will “make every endeavour to be as flexible as we can” to find dates in
CA is believed to be planning for a 50% reduction in revenue for next summer © Getty Images Kevin Roberts, the Cricket Australia chief executive, has faced questions from staff about the decisions to stand down all but a handful of employees on 80% wage cuts until July for a saving of only A$3 million
11:43 AM GMT The ability to not lose their collective cool during South Africa’s worst home season since readmission is what kept the new national staff on track during the 2019-20 summer, according to bowling coach Charl Langeveldt. South Africa won only one out of five home series across all formats and navigated through numerous
9:11 AM GMT A five-Test series played exclusively at Adelaide Oval with players housed in the ground’s new hotel is far from an outlandish suggestion as Cricket Australia contemplates all possible ways of ensuring that India’s scheduled tour takes place next summer in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. CA’s chief executive Kevin Roberts stressed
Apr 20, 2020 A new franchise in the USA, a fully-fledged women’s league and maintaining distinctive local flavour are among the keys to ensuring the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is the second-best T20 league in the world, after the IPL, according to chief operations officer Pete Russell. Seven seasons in, the 2020 CPL is shaping
2:14 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Umar Akmal could learn his cricketing fate on April 27, with that date set for his hearing in front of the Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan. Both the player and the PCB have been required to attend the hearing, which is scheduled at the National Cricket
8:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa’s limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka, which was scheduled for the first half of June, has been postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The teams were set to play three ODIs and three T20Is during the tour, with results from the former counting towards points in the ICC’s new
10:03 AM GMT Australian cricket’s state association owners have successfully pushed back against a Cricket Australia proposal to cut their annual grants by 45% amid the coronavirus pandemic. The governing body has entered fresh talks with the states and the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) to clarify its finances and assuage fears that it faced the
3:07 AM GMT Josh Hazlewood has indicated Australia’s players want full transparency from Cricket Australia in order to better understand the governing body’s coronavirus cash crisis before taking pay cuts as their part of the bargain to keep the game afloat. Hazlewood admitted he was as surprised as anyone last week when CA made the
8:05 AM GMT Shashank Kishore Dav Whatmore, the 1996 World Cup winning coach with Sri Lanka, is set to continue working with less-fancied teams on the Indian domestic circuit. He was at the helm when Kerala entered their first-ever Ranji Trophy semi-finals in 2018-19, and now, after a three-year stint with them, he takes charge
Kevin Roberts speaks at a Cricket Australia event © Getty Images A tense balance of power between Cricket Australia and its state association owners has been exposed ” target=”_blank”>in the scramble to save money amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the states pushing for a greater explanation of the board’s finances before agreeing to deep cuts
The rise of Marnus Labuschagne into the prolific Test No. 3 who dominated the Australian home summer even surprised some who had seen him close at hand. In five Tests against Pakistan and New Zealand, Labuschagne scored 896 runs at 112.00 with four centuries including a maiden double at the SCG. It followed his dramatic
5:00 PM GMT Adil Rashid may have no current plans to put his name into Test contention, but he has backed his friend and fellow spinner, the “world-class” Moeen Ali, to make a successful return when England are able to resume international competition. After nine months out of the Test side, Ali has now described
7:56 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Moeen Ali has indicated that he is ready to return from his self-imposed Test exile as soon as the coronavirus outbreak allows. Moeen has not played a Test since being dropped during last summer’s Ashes. He subsequently lost his Test central contract (receiving a white-ball only deal) and opted out
8:07 AM GMT As its decision-makers scramble to plan for the potential impacts of coronavirus on next summer, the vast majority of Cricket Australia’s staff will be stood down on reduced pay until the financial year ends on June 30. In line with decisions already announced by some of the state associations about pay cuts
2:35 PM GMT For our next #RetroLive match, we rewind to April 18, 2008, when Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore kicked off the IPL Big Picture After months of hype, excitement, controversy and speculation the high-profile Indian Premier League kicks off in Bangalore with the Royal Challengers hosting the Kolkata Knight Riders. “Eight
9:48 AM GMT Savage 80% salary cuts and stand-down orders for all but a handful of Cricket Australia staff until the end of the financial year were forced partly by demands from banks, for the governing body to drastically scale back its costs in order to be considered for an A$200 million [US$126.5 million approx.]
In 1985, a teenage Wasim Akram tore the Australian cricket team apart en route to bowling figures of 5-21 off eight overs
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