Sri Lanka’s 13-man squad to start training in Colombo on Monday Ishara S Kodikara / © AFP/Getty Images Sri Lanka Cricket will go ahead with plans for a 13-man squad of players to begin training on Monday, despite a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 infections in the country over the past few weeks.
Month: May 2020
Ricky Ponting reflects on ‘the quickest bowling I’ve ever faced’, a blistering spell from Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar in Perth in 1999, before the Aussie star posted a score of 197
Find out more at ecb.co.uk Watch match highlights from Day 3 at Headingley, as England take on Australia in the 2019 Ashes. 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 closer to the
Dasun Shanaka scored his maiden half-century contributing massively to Sri Lanka’s score of 306-7 and when South Africa began their run chase for 191 of 21 overs played crucial roles on the field to restrict them to 187-9 to give Sri Lanka an exciting three-run win. ???? Follow on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/srilankacricket Twitter: https://twitter.com/officialslc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialslc
11:49 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has credited MS Dhoni with playing a significant role in anointing him as his successor as India captain. Kohli took over as the full-time Test captain when Dhoni retired from the format midway through India’s tour of Australia in 2014-15, and later became captain across formats when Dhoni
7:33 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI has nominated Rohit Sharma for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting honour. The board has also nominated India fast bowler Ishant Sharma, opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan and India woman allrounder Deepti Sharma for the Arjuna award. Rohit’s Khel Ratna nomination comes on the back of
9:43 PM IST One day in the summer of 1987, Paul Smith found himself in the England dressing room at Edgbaston during a rain break. Smith, a Warwickshire player, was 23 at the time. He had scored 1,500 first-class runs as an opening batsmen the previous season and, as a bowler, had been dubbed “the
11:04 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies has decided to temporarily slash salaries and funding across the entire regional cricket system by 50% starting July to deal with the “debilitating” impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has left the board facing a major loss of income in the absence of regular cricketing activities. According
9:47 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies (CWI) has approved the scheduled tour of England in principle following a meeting via teleconference on Thursday. The Test series, part of the World Test Championship, was scheduled to start from June 4 but was pushed back because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The boards are now looking
11:12 AM IST With the prospect of the T20 World Cup taking place this year becoming increasingly unlikely, there is the growing talk of the postponed IPL taking its slot in some capacity. If that is the case, it would present a significant clash with the early stages of Australia’s domestic season. Here is a
With plenty of pace in the Australian Cricket Team net sessions can be a painful outing. The players speak to CATV about who they hate facing in the nets during training.
Follow India’s 2018 tour of England right here: https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men Immovable. Impenetrable. Incredible. Rahul Dravid is known as “The Wall” for a reason, and frustrated countless bowlers during his illustrious career. Watch one of India’s finest ever players make his final appearance in the famous blue shirt. This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch
Akila Dananjaya Records career best figures of 6 for 115
10:29 PM IST English authorities hoping to stage the first “bio-secure” Test matches since cricket shut down in the face of the coronavirus outbreak remain hopeful that the ICC will alter playing regulations to allow Covid-19 substitutions, according to Steve Elworthy, the ECB’s director of special operations. Earlier this month, the ICC’s cricket committee recommended
1:57 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowler Peter Siddle has switched to Tasmania with a two-year contract after 15 years of playing for his home team Victoria. Siddle said a future career in coaching and a chance to mentor the young crop of Tasmania’s fast bowlers were the reasons behind his move. The 35-year old,
2:44 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett and Joe Clarke are among the high-profile omissions from England’s enlarged 55-man training group. 18 bowlers returned to individual training last week with a focus on red-ball cricket, and a further 37 names have been added to that list. Players have not yet been named with
4:46 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC may continue to insist that this year’s men’s T20 World Cup in Australia has not yet been postponed, but Cricket Australia officials believe the prospects of it being held on schedule are dwindling. Kevin Roberts, CA’s chief executive, said on Friday that there’s “a very high risk about
10:21 AM IST A major round of redundancies at Cricket Australia appears only days away as its chief executive Kevin Roberts maintained his insistence on cutbacks even as he outlined details of a home summer schedule that will feature more international fixtures than originally planned amid vastly improving financial forecasts. Roberts said on Friday that
The Wide World of Sports team reflects on David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd’s Ashes summer.
Follow the latest from the camp at ecb.co.uk/england/men Scotland secured the biggest win in their cricketing history with a stunning six-run defeat of England. Callum MacLeod hit a brilliant 140 not out, and took the home side to 371-5 in glorious batting conditions in Edinburgh. Jonny Bairstow’s 54-ball century looked to have England on course
Dasun Shanaka & Thisara Perera smash 21 runs off Junior Dala’s final over, 38th over of 4th ODI. Dasun Shanaka recorded his maiden ODI ffty during this over.. ???? Follow on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/srilankacricket Twitter: https://twitter.com/officialslc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialslc ???? Visit our website: http://www.srilankacricket.lk
6:08 PM IST Danyal Rasool The PCB has brought in significant changes including three new appointments at its High Performance Centre (HPC). Grant Bradburn, until now fielding coach of the Pakistan national side, will take over as head of high-performance coaching, while Saqlain Mushtaq has been appointed head of international player development. In addition, Asser
8:37 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB has confirmed that no professional domestic cricket will be played in England or Wales until at least August 1. As reported by ESPNcricinfo on Wednesday, the ECB has confirmed that it will look at options for holding domestic red- and white-ball competitions, possibly from early August. These options,
12:16 PM IST Cricket Australia’s decision to bypass Perth for India’s four-match Test series this summer left the WACA chief executive Christina Matthews and chairman Terry Waldron fuming on Thursday. According to the West Australia cricket chiefs, they were promised a guaranteed top-line Test every year once Perth Stadium replaced the WACA Ground as the
10:16 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand Cricket is set to make redundancies as they prepare for an expected fall in revenue due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall NZC are aiming to make NZ$6million in savings of which NZ$1.5million would come from the job cuts that are expected to hit their operations
4:01 PM IST Australia could return to international action in August with a three-match ODI series against Zimbabwe penciled into the schedule in the northern parts of the country. The series, which like all Australia’s fixtures for the 2020-21 season which have been announced is subject to change dependent on the Covid-19 situation, is also
The Indian Cricket Team made it clear how much winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and a Test series in Australia means to them
Watch match highlights from Day 1 at Old Trafford, as England take on Australia in the 2019 Ashes. Find out more at ecb.co.uk 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 closer to
Akila Dananjaya’s fifer vs New Zealand – 1st Test at Galle
11:01 PM IST Paul Stirling, the Ireland batsman, has said that he is “itching” to get back to playing cricket and is hopeful that his team’s ODI series in England will be able to go ahead behind closed doors. Ireland’s three-match series in England was initially scheduled for September, but now looks set to be
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