11:09 AM ET Liam Brickhill Former Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka has died. Chingoka, who was 65, was one of the first black Zimbabweans to make his name in cricket, initially as a player and subsequently in administration. As a seamer and a useful lower-order batsman in his youth, Chingoka captained the South African African
Month: August 2019
3:00 AM ET Toss West Indies chose to bowl v India West Indies captain Jason Holder won the toss and elected to bowl after the toss was delayed by half an hour due to rain and wt outfield. The resulting damp conditions would not have affected India’s plans, captain Virat Kohli implied, when he said
8:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hampshire have signed Tabraiz Shamsi, the South African left-arm wristspinner, for the final four games of the Vitality Blast group stage. After a successful run thanks to the dual spin of Liam Dawson and Mason Crane, Hampshire’s Blast campaign has been derailed by injuries to Crane and back-up spinner Brad
9:30 AM ET Six months ago, Misbah ul Haq was playing for Peshawar Zalmi, a remarkable cricketing career that simply refused to end still going strong. He had backtracked in 2018 on his agreement with Islamabad United to be a mentor, instead going on to play for Peshawar Zalmi as a Gold Category player in
Dilruwan Perera celebrates a breakthrough © Associated Press Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat v New Zealand Sri Lanka’s captain Dimuth Karunaratne won the toss and opted to bat in the second Test against New Zealand at the P Sara Oval after a persistent drizzle had wiped out the entire morning session. The hosts made
11:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin‘s exclusion from India’s starting XI in the Antigua Test has left former captain Sunil Gavaskar stunned. This is now the fourth straight Test Ashwin has sat out of after missing the last three in Australia with injury. Ashwin did miss the first innings of the tour game with
8:00 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Leeds David Warner shapes to defend Mitchell Starc, misses, and the plastic stumps in the Headingley nets go flying. All manner of dismissals take place in the nets, real or imagined depending on the fields “set” by the bowler or throw-downer, but few quite so dramatic. The moment rather
Australian legend Ricky Ponting knew the questions would come for Alastair Cook after the third Magellan Ashes Test, but he was wise enough to predict he would bounce back and return to form
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
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand 1st Test at Galle. Sri Lanka made look a daunting run chase like a stroll in the park for a 6-wicket champagne Sunday first test ending by the extended second over past lunch break time on a brilliant captain’s century of 122 off 243 balls consuming 310 minutes and containing
1:36 PM ET George Dobell in Leeds If Joe Root required any reminder – and he almost certainly doesn’t – over the extent to which Ashes results tend to define careers in English cricket, he will have received it on Tuesday with the news of Mark Robinson‘s sacking as England’s women’s coach. It did not
10:40 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Leeds “Take back control” has been a pretty loaded phrase in this part of the world ever since its co-option by Dominic Cummings and the Vote Leave campaign that successfully won Britain’s EU referendum in 2016. It is also a highly relevant one to Australia’s Ashes campaign, which began
2:23 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has indicated that India will go into the Antigua Test with the same combination that helped them pull off their first-ever Test-series win in Australia at the turn of the year. If this is the case, Rohit Sharma and Hanuma Vihari will most likely be contesting the No.
2:04 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB have advertised for a new assistant coach for the senior England men’s team. While the role is, in effect, currently occupied by Paul Collingwood, he is employed on a consultancy basis and his contract expires after the final Test of the Ashes. He will be obliged to apply
2:40 PM ET Melinda Farrell in Leeds There is a widely accepted theory that, in the wake of a traumatic or painful event, it is helpful to face a similar experience as soon as possible. Get caught in a rip while swimming in the ocean? Go to the beach the next day. Thrown from a
6:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England will play 18 games in their 2020 home summer against four different opponents, the ECB confirmed on Wednesday. The home summer begins later than usual, with the first of three Tests against West Indies starting at The Oval on June 4. They will then play three T20Is and three
7:02 AM ET Dimuth Karunaratne, Sri Lanka’s relatively new captain, doesn’t ride players hard, doesn’t tear them down for taking aggressive options, and when criticism is required, he ensures it’s constructive. Perhaps this is all a bit sappy, but it is the feedback from several members of this Sri Lanka dressing room. Thisara Perera spoke
Imran Khan wants provincial teams to form the core of domestic cricket in Pakistan © Getty Images The government of Pakistan formally notified the new PCB constitution with certain amendments, toning down the powers of its own patron-in-chief. This is the fourth time in the last 12 years that the PCB constitution has been redrafted.
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Chaos has been a constant in Sri Lankan cricket in 2019. Captaincy change – check; coach sacking – check; interim committee – check; sports ministry interference – check; contract terminations – check. Yet, quite incredibly, Sri Lanka are on a three-match winning streak in Tests, on the verge of consecutive
1:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Umesh Yadav has dropped some way down the pecking order for India since the 2018-19 tour of Australia, the one-off appearance in a T20I against Australia in Visakhapatnam in February 2019 his only outing in national colours since then. But now, back in the Test set-up in the Caribbean, Umesh
7:54 AM ET Jason Roy has come through a concussion test following a blow to the head while batting in the nets on Tuesday, but will be assessed once more before he is cleared to play in the third Ashes Test at Headingley. Roy sustained a blow directly on the stem guard when facing throwdowns
Russell Domingo wants to focus on the tier just below the top level © Getty Images Russell Domingo‘s appointment as the seventh Bangladesh head coach in eight years does suggest a somewhat rough next few months for the South African, but he sounded upbeat and up for the challenge in his first interaction with the
3:00 AM ET Big picture After eight consecutive Ashes Tests without a win, England come to Headingley full of confidence, while Australia, who can retain the urn with one win in the next three, are on the ropes. Welcome to Test cricket in 2019, where conventional wisdom is inverted. The mood around the respective teams
Jason and Mo take their teams in Challenge No. 2 of Squad Battles – Dizzy Penalties! Who will hold their nerve and their balance… 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,
Day 3 | 1st Test, Sri Lanka vs New Zealand at Galle | Highlights
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India Blue 112 for 6 (Gaikwad 30, Porel 3-26) drew with India Green The first match of the Duleep Trophy 2019-20 between India Blue and India Green was abandoned without Blue completing their first innings after being put in to bat. Persistent rain and a wet outfield at the Just
2:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Danielle Hazell and Darren Lehmann have been appointed as head coaches for the Leeds-based team for The Hundred. Lehmann’s appointment represents the second position he has held since his resignation as Australia’s coach after the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa, alongside his role as head coach of Brisbane Heat. It
3:43 AM ET Of the many repercussions stemming from the awful blow suffered by Steven Smith during the Lord’s Test, one of the most visible was the arrival of a stem guard on the back of the helmet of Australia’s vice-captain Travis Head. Having tried the neck guards in the wake of his team-mate Phillip
11:08 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Brian Lara, the former West Indies captain, has underlined the need for team’s red-ball cricketers to work on their “mental approach” to the game, an aspect he himself would “strongly” prepare for during his own playing career. Lara’s views comes two days prior to the start of West Indies’ two-Test
12:21 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Test match batting is in decline. Those are the words of India’s captain Virat Kohli in an age when pitches have become result-oriented and bowlers have raised their game several-fold. In just the last two years, various teams have suffered outrageous collapses. England were knocked over for 58 by New
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