6:04 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mumbai Indians, the IPL 2019 champions, have added West Indies batsman Sherfane Rutherford to their squad, after trading legspinner Mayank Markande to Delhi Capitals. Rutherford is known for his big-hitting abilities. Playing for Guyana Amazon Warriors in his debut season of the Caribbean Premier League last year, Rutherford made a
Month: July 2019
12:19 PM ET Lord’s may have to give up one of two bilateral Test matches it is scheduled to host in 2021 if the ICC is to get its wish for a showpiece World Test Championship (WTC) final at an iconic venue after the fashion of the Centenary Tests of 1977 and 1980. Those matches,
1:23 PM ET Joe Root has insisted it was his decision to move back to No. 3 in the England line-up and hopes the change proves his determination to take tough decisions for the benefit of the team. England’s top-order has struggled for several years and, going into the Ashes, it appeared they may field
Follow the latest England news at ecb.co.uk/england/men England’s Test against Ireland hangs in the balance despite nightwatchman Jack Leach making 92 at Lord’s. 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,
Sri Lanka romped to a seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh to go 2-0 up and claim a series win with one game left to play.
12:54 AM ET Shashank Kishore Earning Greg Chappell’s praise and being in the same dressing room as his batting idol Sachin Tendulkar are two of Venugopal Rao‘s fondest memories as an India cricketer. On Tuesday, the 37-year old middle-order batsman called time on a two-decade long career, which effectively ended in 2017. Over the last
Play 00:48 Ashes not about redemption for Smith, Warner – Langer Australia have traded off the breakup of the fast bowling “big three” by selling Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood the idea that spreading the workload among more pacemen will extend their careers, with the captain Tim Paine declaring his team have been
2:55 PM ET The BCCI has suspended Test opener Prithvi Shaw for taking a banned substance Terbutaline under the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code. The suspension is backdated from the day of the collection of the urine sample, from February 22 this year, and will expire on November 15. Let us look at how the
5:01 PM ET England must “hit the ground running” if they are to regain the Ashes, Ben Stokes believes. England boast an outstanding record at Edgbaston, the venue for the first Test. They have won 11 international matches in succession at the ground and haven’t been beaten by Australia in any format there since 2001.
3:00 AM ET Australia’s coach Justin Langer has declared James Pattinson and Usman Khawaja certain starters for the opening Ashes Test at Edgbaston, while also consigning Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Peter Siddle to a three-way duel for the final pace bowling spot on a dry-looking pitch and with an unpromising weather forecast. The tourists
7:09 AM ET Liam Brickhill Zimbabwe’s cricketers will play for free if needs be in order to keep cricket in the country alive. “We will play for free,” a senior squad member confirmed to ESPNcricinfo. “As long as we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Our next assignment is the qualifiers.
10:01 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Amir is expected to be named in Essex’s squad for Thursday night’s game against Hampshire, after his application for a UK sporting visa was belatedly approved. Amir had signed for the majority of the Vitality Blast group stage, but his paperwork was delayed, leaving the club “extremely frustrated” as
12:19 PM ET Does the Kapil Dev-led Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), which will pick the head coach for the Indian men’s team, suffer from conflict of interest? This question has been posed both internally within the BCCI as well as through an external complainant. Justice DK Jain, the ombudsman-cum-ethics officer of the board, has been
12:59 PM ET English cricket will “redress the balance” between red and white-ball cricket over the next few years. Ashley Giles, the managing director of England men’s cricket, accepts that white-ball cricket took priority in the previous four-year cycle and he accepts the strategy, put in place by his predecessor, Andrew Strauss, paid off. England
3:00 AM ET Big picture With the series decided, the stakes may be lower, but both teams still have much to play for. For Bangladesh, after the first two games, more than the losses itself, it’s the manner of the defeats that would leave them stewing. They’ve been plagued by poor fielding, inconsistent bowling, and
6:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) kicks off on August 1 at Edgbaston with the first Ashes Test, before Sri Lanka host New Zealand from August 14 and India play their first Test in the West Indies from August 22. Here’s a look at what some key players are saying
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Lasith Malinga’s last ODI | Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh 1st ODI – Match Highlights – In an all Malinga charged up farewell to the roar of ‘Mali, Mali’ by a packed to capacity 25,000 crowd and Malinga big screen digitals glistening in big letters, ‘Slinga, Our Pride’, Lasith Malinga signed off in ideal champagne style
4:21 AM ET Liam Brickhill The interim committee running Zimbabwe Cricket has issued a statement instructing all employees, apart from the board originally suspended by the Sports and Recreation Commission last month, to report for work on Thursday or face “legal” and “disciplinary consequences”. This is not the first time that the SRC and ZC’s
1:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand begin their World Test Championship campaign in Sri Lanka, a country in which they haven’t played long-form cricket in seven years. And their record in the country isn’t great either – six losses in 15 games. In an effort to change all that, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has
11:29 PM ET Vishal Dikshit in Mumbai Despite an up-and-down 2018 in Test cricket and a difficult county stint this year, India’s Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane has received the backing of Virat Kohli, who reaffirmed that he was a “solid player”. Speaking before the USA and the West Indies tours, where India will play their
1:01 PM ET England may use the New Zealand tour later this year to rest players and coaching staff as they seek to reduce the dangers of “burn out”. That could raise the possibility that they may tour with an interim coach and a temporary replacement as Test captain. England are scheduled to play two
May 16, 2018 ESPNcricinfo staff What is this World Test Championship all about? The World Test Championship is ICC’s long-awaited league competition for Test cricket, which will be contested over two-year cycles, the first of which starts in 2019. When will it be played? The league phase of the inaugural edition is scheduled to be
1:16 PM ET Danyal Rasool Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur termed Mohammad Amir‘s decision to retire from Test cricket “unsurprising”, saying the bowler had been thinking about it for over a year. Arthur revealed the management had tried to ease Amir’s workload over the past year, and experimented with the possibility of making him an
12:04 PM ET A day before the window for the applications for India’s coaching staff closes, captain Virat Kohli has endorsed Ravi Shastri for continuing as the head coach. Shastri and the rest of the coaching staff’s tenure was originally until the World Cup, but the BCCI extended that till the end of India’s tour
4:14 PM ET Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo David Warner and Jonny Bairstow may have formed a blistering opening partnership in this year’s IPL but Bairstow expects that will all be forgotten on the field once the pair line up on opposite sides for the first Specsavers Ashes Test, which
1:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mushfiqur Rahim said that while defeat against Sri Lanka in Bangladesh’s ongoing ODI series was disappointing, it didn’t mean that the progress Bangladesh had made in the past few years amounted to nothing. Bangladesh lost the second ODI, giving Sri Lanka an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. The
6:16 PM ET Alex Malcolm There will be no day-night Sheffield Shield matches ahead of Australia’s two pink-ball Tests against Pakistan and New Zealand later this year but Australia A will play day-night tour matches against Pakistan and the England Lions across the summer. Cricket Australia announced their domestic schedule for the 2019-20 season on
10:41 AM ET Vishal Dikshit in Mumbai India captain Virat Kohli is “baffled” about media reports that have surfaced recently about fights or rifts between him and ODI vice-captain Rohit Sharma. Kohli also said it was “absolutely ridiculous” and “disrespectful” to bring players’ personal lives into the picture when the team’s focus has been on
8:08 AM ET The ICC officially launched the inaugural World Test Championship on Monday. It begins on August 1 with the first Ashes Test. Here’s everything you need to know about the tournament that is set to bring new meaning and context to bilateral Test cricket What is this World Test Championship all about? Essentially,
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