12:30 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ireland will tour the Caribbean for a six-match limited-overs series over two weeks in January 2020, Cricket West Indies confirmed on Monday. The series begins with the ODIs on January 7 – the first two to be played in Barbados – while the third ODI – the only day game
Month: September 2019
2:24 PM ET In a bid to reduce losses incurred by PSL franchises, the PCB has reduced the salary cap to assemble a full squad from USD 1.38 million to USD 1.1 million. PSL franchises have struggled to turn a profit ever since the start of the tournament in 2016. In January this year, the
1:17 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jasprit Bumrah will travel to the UK in October to receive treatment for the stress fracture on his lower back that forced him out of the Test series against South Africa. A BCCI official confirmed the development to ESPNcricinfo but they didn’t put a timeframe on his recovery. However, last
11:23 AM ET Australia’s Test captain, Tim Paine, has given a strong indication that David Warner is inked in to open the batting against Pakistan at the Gabba in November despite his horror Ashes series where he reached double figures just twice and bagged three consecutive ducks. Warner made 95 runs in 10 innings, with
Sri Lanka national team left for Pakistan – SL tour of Pakistan 2019
3:00 AM ET Toss Pakistan chose to bat v Sri Lanka Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat first, with batsman Iftikhar Ahmed coming into the ODI XI for the first time since 2015. Iftikhar’s inclusion means there is no room for Asif Ali, who had played two matches during the World Cup. Pakistan’s
7:52 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan allrounder Faheem Ashraf will return to Northamptonshire in 2020 after signing a deal for the first half of the season. He will be available to play in all formats ahead of Pakistan’s tour of England later in the summer. Faheem, 25, played for Northants during this year’s Vitality Blast,
6:57 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former BCCI president N Srinivasan has challenged Committee of Administrators’ chairman Vinod Rai’s assertion that the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) stands to be disqualified from attending the BCCI elections, scheduled for October 23, if its constitution is not amended in line with that of the board. Srinivasan, also a
3:00 AM ET Australia Women 1 for 87 beat Sri Lanka Women 8 for 84 by nine wickets Australia women produced a dominant display in the field as Sri Lanka Women were overwhelmed in the second T20I at North Sydney Oval. The captain, Chamari Atapattu, could not match her heroics of the previous night as
10:04 PM ET Greg Chappell will retire from his role as a selector and national talent manager at Cricket Australia on Monday, ending an association with the sport that stretches back more than 50 years. From a player to captain to coach and selector, Chappell has covered most of the roles in the game. Kevin
3:00 AM ET Singapore 181 for 9 (Manpreet 41, David 41, Burl 3-24) beat Zimbabwe 177 for 7 (Williams 66, Chakabva 48, Mahboob 2-20, Prakash 2-34) When Tony Munyonga cut teenager Sidhant Singh for only a single in the game’s final ball at the Indian Association Ground in Singapore, history was made as the hosts
10:40 AM ET Danyal Rasool in Karachi In what could be seen as encouraging developments for the prospect of Sri Lanka playing a Test series in Pakistan before the end of the year, Sri Lanka coach Rumesh Ratnayake said he hoped this series would encourage more Sri Lankan players to tour Pakistan. The three-ODI, three-T20I
1:16 PM ET Danyal Rasool in Karachi One-Day Internationals returning to Karachi after 10 years. A washout denied fans a chance three days ago. The city prides itself as the most cricket-mad city in the country. There should still be a lot of excitement, right? Tickets should have been snapped up, right? Wrong. ESPNcricinfo understands
3:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff “There are only three things on my mind right now – cricket, cricket, cricket,” Mohammad Azharuddin said after becoming the new Hyderabad Cricket Association president on Friday with a landslide victory, in which his team swept all six apex council seats on offer. The former India captain and member of
3:00 AM ET Australia Women 4 for 217 (Mooney 113, Gardner 49) beat Sri Lanka Women 7 for 176 (Atapattu 113, Wareham 2-19) by 41 runs Australia Women began their international season with an expected victory, as Beth Mooney scored her second T20I hundred, but the story of the day belonged to the visiting captain
4:52 AM ET Hours after she was asked to explain a conflict of interest charge against her, former India woman’s captain Shanta Rangaswamy resigned from the BCCI’s cricket advisory committee (CAC). Rangaswamy told ESPNcricninfo that she sent in her resignation to the Committee of Administrators (CoA) late on Saturday evening, after all three members of
7:39 AM ET It is not quite back to the drawing board for Australia, but they will be forced to rethink their plans to Chamari Atapattu after Sri Lanka’s T20I captain struck a magnificent century at North Sydney Oval to put their attack under a type of onslaught they have not felt for a while.
8:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sourav Ganguly, the former India captain, has been re-elected president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). He will therefore continue in the post until July 2020, when he completes six years as an office-bearer, whereby he will enter a cooling-off period as mandated by the BCCI’s new constitution. Ganguly
1:34 PM ET The BCCI Ethics Officer, Justice (retd.) DK Jain, has served a notice to all three members on the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) led by Kapil Dev, asking them to explain the alleged conflict of interest charge pressed by Sanjeev Gupta, a life member of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association. Justice Jain has
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Stumps Board President’s XI 265 for 8 (Bharat 71, Panchal 60, Lad 52*, Agarwal 39, Maharaj 3-35, Philander 2-27) drew with South Africans 279 for 6 dec (Markram 100, Bavuma 87*, Philander 48, Jadeja 3-66) Keshav Maharaj and Vernon Philander provided early warning signs for the Indian Test batsmen after
7:59 AM ET Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo The BCCI has reworked the schedule for the rain-affected Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019-20, while still keeping some room for further allowances for bad weather. ESPNcricinfo had reported that a schedule change was in the works for Group B in Vadodara and
4:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Bangladesh Cricket Board has decided to raise the beep-test requirement at the domestic level in a bid to address the overall drop in fitness levels among Bangladesh men’s players. The national selectors recently instructed the first-class teams to only pick players who reach at least 11 on the test,
1:27 AM ET Sri Lanka T20I captain Chamari Atapattu will encourage her team to take a positive approach against Australia and not be overawed by the challenge of facing such a powerful side on their home turf. The three-match series begins at North Sydney Oval on Sunday with the form book suggesting that the matches
8:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sushma Verma, the wicketkeeper-batsman, was the only new entrant into the India women’s squad for their upcoming tour of the West Indies for three ODIs and five T20Is. The BCCI announced a 16-member ODI squad for the tour that kicks off in November, with Sushma the only addition to the
3:00 AM ET Zimbabwe 133 for 5 (Burl 41*, Mutumbami 40*, Lamichhane3-15)beat Nepal 132 for 6 (Airee 40, Williams 2-19)by five wickets Zimbabwe have had very little to cheer about in the past few months. They became the first Full Member to be suspended by the ICC and are now set to miss next year’s
3:00 AM ET Karachi’s first ODI in over 10 years didn’t even get as far as the toss. Heavy rain in the days leading up to this match was already proving a challenge, with doubts arising over whether the outfield would dry in time. Then, on Friday, more rain was delivered by towering dark clouds,
8:47 AM ET Danyal Rasool in Karachi The second ODI between Pakistan and Sri Lanka has been postponed by a day owing to unseasonal rains that left Karachi’s National Stadium waterlogged, washing out the first game of the series in the process. With more rain expected on the day of the second game – Sunday,
10:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Azharuddin has been elected president of the Hyderabad Cricket Association. The former India captain took 147 of the 223 votes cast, with his nearest opponent Prakash Jain polling 73 votes and a third contestant, Dilip Kumar, just three. R Vijayanand will be the new HCA secretary. He won 137
5:33 AM ET Liam Brickhill Newlands might lose hosting rights for the 2020 New Year’s Test between South Africa and England. Cricket South Africa has raised concerns about the Western Province Cricket Association’s administrative and financial affairs, and the potential disruption caused by a massive construction project currently underway at the ground, with CSA chief
4:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Yuvraj Singh has rued the lack of support from the India team management, which left him with the regret of not playing another World Cup match after his Man-of-the-Tournament performance in India’s 2011 win. Yuvraj believes he deserved another shot with an average of 41.33 and a strike rate of
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