6:49 PM IST Big picture Maybe this Test cricket lark has some legs after all. Two matches in as many weeks, two pulsating fifth-day finishes, one victory apiece and the promise of more to come. The series in a bubble is bubbling up nicely as the decider looms – once again at Emirates Old Trafford,
Month: July 2020
2:20 PM IST Australian cricket’s Indigenous leader, Justin Mohamed, believes that Cricket Australia’s work to improve Aboriginal involvement in the game will not have lasting effects until representation extends to the management office and the boardroom as well as on the playing field. Speaking to ESPNcricinfo in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement
8:45 PM IST West Indies’ management will trust their frontline seamers to be honest about their ability to get through a third Test match against England in the space of as many weeks, but are confident that there are no major injury concerns heading into the final match of the series at Emirates Old Trafford.
12:11 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowler Lockie Ferguson‘s Test aspirations are still as strong as ever after a calf strain cut short his performance in his only Test, against Australia in Perth last December. Ferguson said he had time to reflect on a lot of things about his “whirlwind” career during the recent lockdown,
9:19 PM IST When David Willey was told last year that he had been left out of England’s T20I series in New Zealand, he thought his international career was over. Willey had been a white-ball regular for England for the previous four years, but was dropped immediately before the World Cup after Jofra Archer’s impressive
2:39 PM IST With a decision around whether the 2021 Women’s ODI World Cup goes ahead in New Zealand expected in the next couple of weeks, Australia captain Meg Lanning has acknowledged one of the issues will be whether all teams will be able to have adequate preparation due to Covid-19. While New Zealand has
10:36 PM IST Roddy Estwick, the West Indies assistant coach who mentored Jofra Archer as a young cricketer in Barbados, has encouraged the player to “lay low, focus on the game and on people you can trust”, after hearing of the racial abuse he suffered on social media while isolating in the team hotel during
12:18 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Anil Kumble, the former India captain, doesn’t regret walking away as the team’s head coach in 2017, but feels “the end could have been better”. He stepped down immediately after the Champions Trophy in June, where India finished runners-up to Pakistan, after his partnership with Virat captain Kohli became “untenable.”
10:29 PM IST Ben Stokes has already surpassed the feats of Andrew Flintoff, and is well on his way to overtaking Sir Ian Botham as England’s greatest allrounder, according to James Anderson, who has reiterated his desire to carry on playing alongside his team-mate at least until the next Ashes tour of Australia in 2021-22.
3:47 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Former ICC umpire Daryl Harper has said he is “extremely proud” of his controversial ‘shoulder-before-wicket’ decision which had Sachin Tendulkar walk back for a duck at the Adelaide Oval in 1999 despite the backlash he received back then. Tendulkar was given out lbw by Harper after he ducked into a
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4:47 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Sripali Weerakkody, the 34-year-old Sri Lankan bowling allrounder, has announced her retirement from international cricket with immediate effect, hanging up her boots after playing 89 ODIs and 58 T20Is since making her debut in 2006. “I have decided to call it a day. So I feel this is the right
4:17 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa T20I captain Quinton de Kock has confirmed that AB de Villiers was in line to make a potential international comeback through this year’s T20 World Cup, which was officially postponed to 2021 earlier this week. de Kock’s admission is in line with discussions in December last year, when
12:22 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Kane Williamson, the New Zealand captain and Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman, is waiting for more details about the delayed season of the IPL to come his way, saying “it would be great to play” the tournament in the UAE, but a lot of planning and organising still needs to be done
3:24 PM IST The question of whether the BCCI’s top two officer bearers – president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah – can carry on in their positions remains unanswered with the Supreme Court of India on Wednesday saying after a short hearing that it will take up the matter again in two weeks’ time.
8:59 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer has revealed he has received racist abuse on social media during his spell in isolation following the biosecurity breach ahead of the second Test against West Indies at Old Trafford as he opened up on how difficult the last week has been for him. Archer broke protocol when
6:51 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Bangladesh men’s pending three-Test series against hosts Sri Lanka could be rescheduled to October, if talks between the BCB and SLC come to fruition. The tour, Bangladesh’s first three-match red-ball series in six years and part of the World Test Championship, was originally scheduled for July-August but had to be
5:57 PM IST Jacquie Hey, Cricket Australia’s first female director, is expected exit the board this year in the wake of Michael Kasprowicz‘s resignation. CA’s nominations committee will now have to search for fresh talent, including possible candidates to become the next chairperson after Earl Eddings. Kasprowicz was not due for re-election as a CA
11:07 PM IST England 469 for 9 declared (Stokes 176, Sibley 120, Chase 5-172) and 129 for 3 declared (Stokes 78*) beat West Indies 287 (Brathwaite 75*, Brooks 68, Chase 51, Broad 3-66) and 198 (Brooks 62, Blackwood 55, Broad 3-42) by 113 runs Ben Stokes, match winner, series saviour. That was the bottom line
10:45 PM IST With less than a week left before BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is set to enter the three-year cooling off period, the Supreme Court has listed the board’s long-pending case for a hearing on Wednesday. The court is meant to hear BCCI’s plea, which it has filed twice since last December, proposing several
Play 00:56 West Indies lost game during day-four Broad spell – Simmons Chris Silverwood faces an intriguing test of his management style this week as England pick a side they hope can win the third Test against West Indies. In many ways Silverwood, the England coach, is in an enviable position. As things stand, he
James Anderson got the ball talking in the Adelaide Test of the 2017-18 Ashes, claiming his first five-wicket haul in Australia
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3:43 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Moeen Ali has been named as Eoin Morgan’s vice-captain for England three-match ODI against Ireland. Moeen, recently named as captain of Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred, is the second most experienced ODI player in the squad having played 102 such games. He has also previously captained England U19s and, when
9:53 PM IST Pakistan bowling coach Waqar Younis believes Mohammad Amir‘s return to the team will spark competition amongst the bowlers and liven up intensity as they gear up for next month’s T20 series against England. He said Amir’s retirement from Test cricket “hurt at the time” but Pakistan had moved past it, and said
10:57 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff A round-up of how the cricket community is responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Catch up on older newsfile entries here. July 21 Trent Boult was back in training on day three of New Zealand’s camp for North Island-based players in Mount Maunganui. He had missed training on day two, as
10:42 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff A senior official in BCCI operations, Mayank Parikh, has been asked to either resign from his position in the board or to “wind up” his six cricket clubs in Mumbai by BCCI’s ethics officer-cum-ombudsman Justice (retd) DK Jain. Parikh was the subject of a conflict of interest complaint related to
12:10 AM IST Team Moeen 325 for 9 (Bairstow 127, Moeen 85, Rashid 4-65) beat Team Morgan 225 (Duckett 68, Moeen 3-40) by 100 runs Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali starred as England’s two World Cup winners outshone the rookies in the first intra-squad match at the Ageas Bowl ahead of the one-day international series
11:55 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Middlesex have named Stephen Eskinazi as their captain for this summer’s Bob Willis Trophy, after confirming that Peter Handscomb, the Australia batsman who was set to lead them this summer, will defer his two-year contract until 2021-22. Eskinazi, 26, will take charge of Middlesex’s red-ball team in the competition that
10:48 AM IST West Indies coach Phil Simmons has admitted that he is “concerned” by the form of John Campbell and Shai Hope, and will consider making top-order changes ahead of the third Test. Campbell and Hope both fell cheaply on the final day of the second Test, and have made 52 and 57 runs
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