shares Dale Steyn and Lungi Ngidi share a fist bump © Getty Images South Africa’s anxious wait for an update on Dale Steyn‘s injured right shoulder continues, but the fast bowler has seen a specialist in Cape Town since his early return from the IPL. In two weeks, the Proteas will meet for a
Month: April 2019
12:46 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies and the Caribbean Premier League have agreed to move back the dates of the 2019 edition of the T20 tournament to make sure all the top West Indies players can take part in it as well as in the multi-format home series against India. The seventh edition
10:27 AM ET Mohammad Isam in Dhaka Fan uproar has forced the Bangladesh Cricket Board to change the colour scheme of the team’s main World Cup jersey, after they had initially designed an all-green kit with no red in it. Red has been an important part of Bangladesh’s limited-overs kits and is an integral part
3:22 AM ET Responding to the conflict-of-interest allegation against him, former India batsman VVS Laxman criticised the Committee of Administrators’ handling of the Cricket Advisory Committee,and alleged complete lack of communication from the Vinod Rai-led panel. Laxman said the COA has been using the CAC only for the selection of senior national coaches, despite having
5:53 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ashton Turner will undergo another shoulder operation following Australia A’s tour of the UK in a bid to further his chances of reclaiming a place in the Australia line-up after missing out on the World Cup. In a wide-ranging interview with ESPNcricinfo Turner said that he has been severely restricted
9:54 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Offspinner Will Somerville will have the chance to face former team-mates after being added to the New Zealand squad for the three one-day matches against Australia in Brisbane next week which act as World Cup preparation. Somerville played for New South Wales between 2014 and 2018 before returning across the
12:42 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hales is said to be “devastated” by his axing from all England squads in the wake of his drugs ban. Hales’ management company, the 366 Group, said they were “hugely disappointed” by England selectors’ decision to drop him from the England squads for the World Cup and lead-up matches.
11:00 PM ET Alex Malcolm Australia’s World Cup squad gets together for a pre-tournament camp in Brisbane this week while the Australia A tour also edges closer. An enormous number of Australians are playing in overseas competitions in the lead up to the World Cup, Australia A and Ashes tours of the UK. Here is
Follow the Royal London One-Day Cup at ecb.co.uk/one-day-cup Somerset maintained their 100% start to this year’s Royal London One-Day Cup, as Azhar Ali and Peter Trego both scored centuries for the home side. This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch all the latest videos from the England Cricket Team and England and Wales
1:49 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Senior Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik has been given 10 days’ leave from his team’s pre-World Cup trip to England to deal with “personal issues”. Malik will miss Sunday’s T20I and the first ODI against England on May 8. He is expected to rejoin the side before the second ODI on
2:01 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Duckett and Dawid Malan will join England’s ODI squad for Friday’s match against Ireland and a T20 clash with Pakistan on Sunday, while James Vince will enter the squad for the upcoming five-game one-day series with Pakistan. Their inclusions come in the wake of Alex Hales‘ axing and an
12:26 PM ET Mohammad Isam in Dhaka There’s no pressure on him or on the team at the World Cup, Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza said, but hoped the players would put up a show that would help change perceptions about them. There has been speculation about Mashrafe’s future at the top level following his election
shares Cricket Australia head office © Getty Images A desperate Cricket Australia has told the BCCI that India would need to play an extra ODI in a future series in Australia if it is unable to reschedule the three-match ODI series to be held in India next January. That extra match, CA indicated, would
shares © Getty Images Alex Hales has been withdrawn from all England squads ahead of the international season, in the wake of his 21-day ban for using recreational drugs. According to an ECB statement, the decision has been taken by Ashley Giles, ECB’s managing director of England men’s cricket, and the England selectors, headed
7:44 AM ET Bangladesh’s biggest player will be missing from the team’s official World Cup picture – and all because he’d left the ground before the photo session took place. It’s left the picture with a legend-sized hole and also left the BCB president fairly angry about it. Shakib Al Hasan, who had arrived in
7:16 AM ET Australia’s best female cricketers Meg Lanning, Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry have missed out on an IPL payday in the region of US $30,000 each for a mere three matches, after Cricket Australia formally informed them that the BCCI would not reverse its decision to omit the trio from the exhibition tournament
12:46 PM ET Press Trust of India Sachin Tendulkar has denied the accusations of conflict of interest against him, saying he neither “received any compensation” nor held any decision-making role with Mumbai Indians. Tendulkar has filed a 14-point written response to a notice sent to him by Justice (Retd) DK Jain, the BCCI ombudsman. The
1:59 PM ET Bangladesh’s batsmen have to trust their own skills at the World Cup rather than be swayed by prevailing global standards, according to their batting coach Neil McKenzie. Most of Bangladesh’s success over the past four years has come on slow and low pitches at home, and the odd ODI series win in
6:37 AM ET Bangladesh have added pace bowler Taskin Ahmed and medium-pace-bowling allrounder Farhad Reza to the squad for the tri-series in Ireland, which begins next week. With the addition of the two, the squad has swelled to 19, with the selectors having earlier added offspinner Nayeem Hasan and offspinning allrounder Yasir Ali to the
shares Shadab Khan is pumped after taking a wicket © AFP Pakistan legspinner Shadab Khan has been given a two-week course of medication by doctors in England, along with a prescription of complete rest, in an attempt to cure the virus that ruled him out of their forthcoming series. He will now return home
Follow India’s 2018 tour of England right here: https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men India pulled off a magnificent run chase to claim the 3-match T20 series 2-1. Rohit Sharma was at his glorious best, making a high-class hundred off 56 balls to guide his side to a tremendous 201-3 off 18.4 overs. England had earlier only managed to make
Ground boys take two Magnificent catches during SL vs England series.
9:39 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hashim Amla has pulled out of the Cape Cobras squad for the remainder of the CSA T20 Challenge. “I have opted not to make myself available for selection for the Cape Cobras for the remainder of the CSA T20 Challenge,” read a statement released by Amla. “I express my sincere
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Pakistan XI 358 for 7 (Imad 117*, Fakhar 76, Haris 75) beat Kent 258 (Blake 89) by 100 runs Allrounder Imad Wasim hit a career-best List A score of 117 not out to help ease Pakistan to a comfortable 100-run win over Kent in their opening tour match in
8:50 AM ET All four IPL play-off matches will begin half an hour early to avoid the matches spilling over past midnight. Traditionally, evening matches in the IPL begin at 8 pm IST, but the BCCI has decided to advance the start of the playoff matches this season to 7.30 pm, with the toss at
3:06 AM ET The Pakistan Cricket Board has called off their Under-19 team’s tour of Sri Lanka following serial blasts that left almost 300 dead and more than 500 injured in Colombo last week. The Pakistan team was set to leave for Colombo on April 30, with the first game scheduled for May 3 in
12:10 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England’s stock of potential batting candidates for a summer that includes the World Cup and an Ashes series has been further hit by the news that Surrey’s Ollie Pope is likely to miss most of the season after dislocating his shoulder. News that Pope will require surgery on his left
Musician and Aussie cricket fan Denis Carnahan pleads with Ashes hero Mitchell Johnson to bring back his furry lip-warmer.
1:18 PM ET England batsman Alex Hales has failed a drugs test. Hales, who was named in England’s provisional 15-man World Cup squad last week, is understood by ESPNcricinfo to have tested positive for a recreational drug in recent weeks. The England selectors are not thought to have known about the test result at the
5:18 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa women will be without the services of their regular captain Dane van Niekerk for the upcoming limited-overs home series against Pakistan, as she continues to recover from a stress fracture of the right femur. Van Niekerk had suffered the injury during the first ODI against Sri Lanka in
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