Month: September 2017

6:43 AM ET The World XI side, led by coach Andy Flower along with head of the ICC’s Pakistan Task Team (PTT) Giles Clarke, arrived at Allama Iqbal international airport in Lahore in the small hours of Monday morning. World XI’s three-T20I series against Pakistan, which gets underway on Tuesday, will be the third attempt in the last two years to revive international cricket in the country. The side was…

5:49 AM ET Mohammad Isam The BCB has granted Shakib Al Hasan the break he had requested from Test cricket, but for a shorter duration than the six months he had asked for. Shakib will be allowed to rest during Bangladesh’s tour of South Africa, which begins later this month, though Akram Khan, the BCB’s cricket operations chairman, has said he has the option of playing the second Test, “if…

2:44 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Aravinda de Silva, Roshan Mahanama, Brendon Kuruppu, Graeme Labrooy, perhaps even Mahela Jayawardene – these are the names Sri Lanka Cricket is attempting to align itself with as the board looks to arrest the decline of the national team. Even more crucially for SLC, getting former players with good reputations on board may also help turn around its ailing public reputation. The board is…

2:34 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff James Sutherland, the Cricket Australia chief executive, has thrown the governing body’s support behind a vote in favour of marriage equality in the postal plebiscite being mailed to Australian homes this week. CA on Monday revealed that the organisation had joined more than 1600 Australian businesses, industries and sports in signing an open letter in support of a legislate change to allow same-sex couples to…

Steven Taylor drives over cover for a boundary to move past 1,000 career one-day runs for USA  1:37 PM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna USA opening batsman Steven Taylor has been axed as…

1:03 PM ET Mohammad Isam Shakib Al Hasan has submitted a letter to the BCB requesting a break from Test cricket for six months. The board will discuss the matter on Monday afternoon, hours before it is scheduled to announce the South Africa-bound Test squad. ESPNcricinfo has learned the BCB has taken the matter seriously and is considering giving Shakib a shortened break, and is likely to ask him to…

Dobell: England still don’t know their best XI for Ashes tour (3:14) George Dobell joins Melinda Farrell to discuss the positives and negatives from England’s Test summer (3:14) 1:01 PM ET George Dobell England are to use the limited-overs matches against West Indies to trial a few options as their new bowling coach. With Ottis Gibson having left his role as England bowling coach at the end of the Test…

‘Poor fielding down to lack of concentration’ – Bayliss (1:48) England coach Trevor Bayliss says England must put a stop to their poor fielding before their Ashes Test in Australia. (1:48) 12:59 PM ET George Dobell England won’t win the Ashes unless their catching improves, according to coach Trevor Bayliss. He described his side’s efforts as “terrible” during the Investec Test series against West Indies and suggested a lack of…