Play 01:46 WATCH – Australia’s hectic departure from Cape Town David Warner and Cricket Australia may be headed the same way as Kevin Pietersen and the ECB, with the vice-captain increasingly isolated as the instigator of the ball-tampering incident that has blown up into a perfect storm. In reference to the view within the team that Warner had hatched the idea and delegated it to his opening partner Cameron Bancroft…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff In his first game after the gates closed on Zimbabwe’s entry into the World Cup following a heartbreaking loss to UAE, Sikandar Raza‘s breezy 90 helped Gazi Group Cricketers to a 34-run win over Kheleghar Samaj Kallyan Samity in the Dhaka Premier League’s Super League. Raza struck seven fours and four sixes in his 84-ball innings that powered Gazi Group to 304 for 6 in…
8:11 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN The BCB is awaiting final confirmation from former South Africa batsman Gary Kirsten on his availability to work with Bangladesh as a consultant. He is expected to get in touch with the BCB over the same after the IPL, which ends on May 27. BCB director Jalal Yunus said that although the two parties haven’t made the deal “full and final”, Kirsten is likely to…
7:35 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Morne Morkel has catapulted to sixth on the ICC Test bowlers ranking after his nine-wicket match haul demolished Australia at Newlands. He moved to 798 rating points, his highest tally ever. With Morkel set to end his 12-year international career after the Johannesburg Test next week, this means the 33-year-old may well finish his Test career as one of the world’s ten best bowlers. Another…
6:39 AM ET George Dobell Colin Graves would appear to have emerged unscathed from a chairmen’s meeting called to assuage concerns raised by several of the first-class counties. Graves, the ECB chairman, called the meeting of the chairmen of the 18 counties and the MCC (or their deputies) after it emerged compensation payments could be paid to Test Match grounds in years they do not host Tests. In particular, concerns…
6:14 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Gloucestershire have signed James Bracey until the end of the 2019 season. Bracey, 20 years old and Bristol-born, impressed at the end of the 2017 season. He made a maiden first-class century – 156 – against Glamorgan in the penultimate round of games and followed it with an unbeaten 82 in the final round against Derbyshire. He also kept wicket in both games, having made…
5:39 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rajan Nayar, a domestic cricket official in Zimbabwe, has been suspended from all cricketing activities for 20 years by the ICC for attempting to improperly influence an international match. The incident had taken place in October last year when Nayar approached Zimbabwe captain Graeme Cremer and offered USD 30,000 to engage in corrupt activity. Cremer “immediately” reported to the approach to the ICC, which began…
Todd Astle is ecstatic after dismissing Craig Overton © Getty Images The Tim and Trent show stole the early headlines at Eden Park, but for New Zealand coach Mike Hesson there was huge satisfaction in his side showing they are an attack for a variety of conditions as they put in the “grind” to bowl England out a second time and secure an innings victory. There were still four wickets…
Matt Renshaw plays the flick shot © Robert Cianflone/Getty Images Steven Smith‘s ban from the Johannesburg Test has forced the call-up of Matt Renshaw into the Australian squad, as the former captain Steve Waugh called for Cricket Australia to refocus on the importance of the spirit of the game. Dropped at the start of the summer for Cameron Bancroft, Renshaw now finds himself thrown into the middle of the ball…
3:00 AM ET Queensland 516 (Hemphrey 77, Wildermuth 73, Neser 58, Webster 3-83) and 1 for 128 (Renshaw 81*, Burns 41) beat Tasmania 477 (Wade 108, Silk 76, Rainbird 57, Doggett 5-101) and 1 for 166 dec (Doolan 82*, Silk 74) by nine wicketsScorecard Queensland joyfully accepted a desperate declaration and charged to their first Sheffield Shield title in six years during a rain-interrupted conclusion at Allan Border Field in…