Month: December 2017

Cricket South Africa President Chris Nenzani speaks at the inaugural player draft of the T20 Global League  7:31 AM ET Cricket South Africa has recorded losses of approximately R180 million (US$14.16 million approx) over the posptoned T20 Global League, ESPNcricinfo has learned. Though the amount is significant, it is just over half the US$25 million the organisation was forecast to lose if the event had gone ahead. More than half…

3:00 AM ET Alex MalcolmESPN Close Alex Malcolm is a Melbourne-based sports journalist and broadcaster. He has been a long-time contributor to ESPNcricinfo and reported for the AFL website for four seasons. He has also worked as a television commentator calling Australian Rules Football, Athletics and Tennis for a number of networks. Melbourne Renegades 3 for 165 (White 79*, Harris 50, Archer 2-17) beat Hobart Hurricanes 8 for 164 (McDermott…

6:13 AM ET George Dobell The Ashes are gone and the prospect of another whitewash looms for England. There will be a huge number of visiting supporters in Melbourne for the Boxing Day Test, so what do they need to do to bring some festive cheer? Stick or twist One of the most obvious differences between the sides has been the quality of the spin attacks. While Nathan Lyon has…

5:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ellyse Perry has cemented her status as the leading women’s cricketer in the world by winning the inaugural ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year award. The Australian allrounder beat New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite and India’s Harmanpreet Kaur to the title. The award, named in honour of the pioneering Rachael Heyhoe-Flint was established following her death in January 2017. Satterthwaite did have reason for celebration at…

4:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia and England’s players are safe and accounted for, after a car drove into a crowd close to Flinders Street Station in Melbourne on Thursday evening. According to reports, between 14 and 16 people were injured as a result of what police are calling a “deliberate act”. The incident took place around 4.45pm local time and local police have since arrested two men, including the…

4:27 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Seth Rance has been named replacement for Adam Milne, who injured his foot and is ruled out of the ODI series and the upcoming T20s against West Indies. Milne felt discomfort in his left foot while landing to bowl and will continue to be evaluated, a New Zealand Cricket release said. Milne did not play in the first ODI that New Zealand won by five…

3:14 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI has brought forward two domestic tournaments, the Zonal T20 league and the Syed Mushtaq Ali knockout tournament, to ensure the players have a chance to audition ahead of the 2018 auction on January 27 and 28. It is understood that the Zonal T20 league will now be held from January 8 to 16 instead of January 21 to 29. The new schedule also…

12:55 AM ET Umar Farooq Eight Pakistan players, including Saeed Ajmal and Imran Khan, found themselves in a pay dispute with the Afro T20 Cricket League organisers and decided to return home without completing the tournament. The players’ return tickets were also cancelled at one point but according to Ajmal, their flights were rebooked for December 21 after talks with the Uganda Cricket Association (UCA). The Afro T20 Cricket League,…

1:38 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff It didn’t seem like Doug Bracewell, coming off a knee injury and a 100-hour community service sentence following a drink-driving offence, and Todd Astle, who described his ODI debut as a “dream come true”, hadn’t played international cricket for the last year. They found their rhythm from the outset, and combined to take seven wickets in the first ODI, leading New Zealand to a five-wicket…