12:08 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Holder XI 120 for 5 (Da Silva 60*) v Brathwaite XI West Indies captain Jason Holder had another short stay at the crease as the tourists’ second and final intra-squad match before next week’s first Test against England finally got under way at Emirates Old Trafford. Holder has been
Month: June 2020
© AFP via Getty Images Pakistan’s touring party in the United Kingdom is set to get bigger after six more players who returned two successive negative covid-19 tests are eligible to join the initial squad of 20 at the earliest in Worcester. Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Rizwan, Shadab Khan and Wahab Riaz
10:29 PM IST Jos Buttler is set to retain his place in England’s Test team for the start of the series against West Indies. While Buttler has endured a lean run of form with the bat in recent Tests – he has averaged 23.32 in 13 Tests since the start of 2019 and 17.55 in
7:55 AM IST Across the space of three days in 2011 playing for Queensland, Sammy-Jo Johnson dismissed Alyssa Healy twice. It wasn’t long after she had been told there wasn’t a place for her with New South Wales. Now, nine years later, the stars have aligned to bring her back to Sydney as she pushes
Watch match highlights from Day 5 at Lords, 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 the
Angelo Mathews struck a run-a-ball 97 to anchor his side to an imposing 299 for eight after the hosts won the toss and opted to bat. #AngeloMathews hit 11 fours and a six in his knock as Sri Lanka scored 93 off their final 10 overs to set South Africa a 300-run target. #SriLankaCricket #LionsRoar
2:54 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Khalid Wazir, who played two Tests for Pakistan in 1954, died at age 84 in Chester on Saturday. He was ill for a long time. A right-hand batsman and medium-pace bowler, Wazir was the 16th Test cricketer for Pakistan and the second-youngest for his country at the time of his
7:32 PM IST Ben Stokes will captain England for the first time in the first Test against West Indies starting next week. Joe Root, England’s permanent red-ball captain, will miss the first Test and Wednesday’s warm-up match to attend the birth of his second child. Root’s wife, Carrie, is due to give birth later this
1:34 PM IST Australia men’s white-ball captain Aaron Finch believes that cricket’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic must take priority over the fulfilling of ODI and Test league commitments. He said that recent cancellations of series against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe will hopefully “even out” over the next decade. The national team coach Justin Langer had
8:48 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB has confirmed that the delayed 2020 county season will get underway on August 1. However, there is still no update on the status of the recreational game in England and Wales, despite reports that the government was preparing to give the sport the go-ahead for a return in
6:20 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Zimbabwe’s three-match ODI tour of Australia in early August has been postponed due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Although the series, which was set to be played in northern Australia, had been included in the schedule put out last month it was always unlikely it would take place. A
11:25 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Jermaine Blackwood believes he has something to prove against the world’s leading bowlers, should he find himself back in West Indies’ line-up for the upcoming Test series against England. A measured 112 not out against England in April 2015, in just his sixth Test, remains Blackwood’s only international three-figure score.
11:13 PM IST There have been times in Ben Stokes’ career – you know the times; we don’t need to rehash them here – when the captaincy of England seemed a distant dream. So it is a reflection of how much he has matured as a cricketer and a man that he seems the obvious
Find out more at ecb.co.uk England ODI and T20 captain Eoin Morgan feels the pressure as he gets busy with the England visually impaired team. 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
3:25 PM IST Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) return-to-train-and-play plans have been approved by the country’s sports ministry and the organisation will meet on Thursday to plot its course back to action. ESPNcricinfo understands that CSA’s focus will be on getting the national men’s and women’s teams back in action, though franchise and provincial players will
2:45 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff India’s Nitin Menon has been included in the ICC Elite panel of umpires for the 2020-21 season after the annual review conducted by the game’s governing body. Menon, who was earlier part of the International panel, will replace England’s Nigel Llong in the Elite roster. A panel consisting of ICC
10:13 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Former Australia captain Mark Taylor has raised the prospect of the Australia-India Boxing Day Test being moved away from the MCG if other venues are able to host larger crowds. Although still six months away, the recent spike in Covid-19 cases in Victoria – 75 were recorded on Monday –
2:56 AM IST West Indies will wear a Black Lives Matter emblem on the collars of their shirts during July’s Test series against England. Captain Jason Holder hinted in his first press conference of the tour that West Indies would look to support the movement in some way, and said in a statement on Sunday:
Steve Waugh reveals a story about when Indian legend Rahul Dravid approached him for advice on how to improve his ODI game
10:54 PM IST England’s bowlers have been told by the selectors that the team picked for the first Test against West Indies will be the strongest possible side, despite the acceptance that rotation will be a feature of the summer. The 30-man training group named ahead of the West Indies series includes 18 seamers, with
5:38 PM IST Pakistan have England’s “fragile top order” in their sights as captain Azhar Ali said that the hosts’ batsmen haven’t looked confident since Alastair Cook retired in 2018. He called England’s bowling line-up “brilliant” but played down any sense of pressure handling an experienced attack. England have struggled to nail down a regular
10:53 PM IST England seamer Stuart Broad has admitted to concerns that international cricket will offer “more of a mental test” than usual this summer due to the absence of fans from grounds. All six of England’s Test matches this summer will be played behind closed doors, with the ECB confirming on Friday that the
Jun 26, 2020 Danyal Rasool The PCB will reduce its budget by 10% for the next year in response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The board announced a PKR 7.76 billion (approx USD 46.2 million) budget for the coming financial year after its 58th Board of Governors meeting – and the first held
1:32 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff India pace-bowling allrounder Shikha Pandey has become the latest in a long line of cricketers to offer views on whether women’s cricket needs any tweaks – like smaller balls or shorter pitches – to help it further flourish and attract more fans. In a series of tweets, Pandey on Saturday
10:39 PM IST Given his health ordeals in New Zealand and South Africa this winter, the inclusion of Jack Leach in England’s plans for their return to Test cricket against West Indies next month might initially have come across as something of a risk. This is, after all, a player who admitted fearing for his
9:50 PM IST Alzarri Joseph has downplayed the significance of the news that West Indies head coach Phil Simmons is self-isolating in his Old Trafford hotel room as a health precaution. Simmons left the West Indies’ bubble to attend a funeral on Friday, and has been self-isolating since then in his room on-site. He will
11:34 PM IST Pakistan Test captain Azhar Ali has said he and his team-mates made a pact during lockdown to keep their fitness intact so that the moment cricket could resume they would all be ready. The Pakistanis haven’t played any competitive cricket since the Pakistan Super League was halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic
8:51 PM IST Amar Virdi, the Surrey offspinner, has said that club cricket in the UK is full of untapped talent from ethnic minority backgrounds and encouraged counties to be proactive in helping young players understand how to break into professional set-ups. Speaking from England’s bio-secure bubble at the Ageas Bowl, Virdi detailed the challenges
Moeen Ali took an incredible spinners hat-trick, the first since 1958. England take on South Africa in the winter test series. Watch this classic Hat-trick from Moeen Ali to get yourself in the mood for the first test. Find out more at ecb.co.uk This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest
5:12 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Six of the ten Pakistani cricketers who had earlier tested positive for Covid-19 – Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Fakhar Zaman, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Hasnain – have returned negative results when tested again, Wasim Khan, the PCB chief executive, announced today, adding that Kashif Bhatti, Haris Rauf, Haider
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