2:06 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi The Law Commission of India has recommended bringing the BCCI under the Right to Information (RTI) Act since it performs the functions of a public body. And should the government approve and follow through on this view, the board could be grappling with far-reaching consequences. Several members of the ruling dispensation in Delhi currently hold offices in BCCI and its state associations. The 124-page report…
2:56 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Netherlands captain Peter Borren, 34, has retired from international cricket with immediate effect. Pieter Seelaar, the 30-year-old bowler, will take over the captaincy as Netherlands look to build towards the 2020 World T20 qualifiers and the ICC ODI Championships. Jeroen Smits, the former Netherlands wicketkeeper, has been appointed the new team manager. Borren last featured for Netherlands in the World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe in…
12:48 PM ET With seven working days to go before the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the South African Cricketers’ Association (SACA) expires on April 30, CSA has proposed an interim agreement while the new MOU is negotiated. Cricket South Africa has identified July 31 – three months after the existing MOU expires – as the date on which they hope to have a final…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Sunrisers have won everything this season – three tosses, three matches and all the crucial moments in the interim. Their style of attack is consistent with everything head coach Tom Moody has put in place since he took over: the bowlers continue to hold teams to under 150 and the batsmen, perfectly set up to chase that kind of a middling score, are delivering. In…
11:42 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Glamorgan have signed Australia batsman Usman Khawaja as an overseas player for the Vitality Blast and he will be available for all 14 group matches. Khawaja will join Australia team-mate Shaun Marsh in the Glamorgan top order for the T20 campaign. He averages 32.73 with a strike-rate of 126.16 including two centuries which came during the 2015-16 BBL. “I’m delighted to have signed for Glamorgan…
10:58 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN The Bangladesh Premier League will go back to having a maximum of four overseas players in a playing XI for the 2018 edition, down from the five in 2017. Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has also ratified the BPL governing council’s decision that each franchise can retain up to four (overseas and/or local) players from their 2017 roster. Having a maximum of four overseas players per…
3:00 AM ET Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders chose to bowl v Rajasthan Royals play 4:14 James Faulkner and Ajit Agarkar look ahead to Rajasthan Royals’ match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Jaipur Kolkata Knight Riders captain Dinesh Karthik stuck to this season’s IPL trend of teams opting to bowl first, against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur. Both teams, coming off wins in their previous games, remained unchanged. “It looks a good…
9:09 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN The BCB has slashed its number of central contracts to ten, from 16 in 2017. Imrul Kayes, Soumya Sarkar, Sabbir Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Mosaddek Hossain and Kamrul Islam Rabbi, who got contracts last year, have all been excluded from this year’s list. Board president Nazmul Hassan, who made the announcement after the year’s first board meeting, said that the salaries will be the same as…
Habibul Bashar visits the toilet that now serves as the office and equipment storeroom of Muslim Uddin’s training camp at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium in Bogra 8:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A local coach has found an innovative way to deal with the lack of funds and support for women’s cricket in Bangladesh. Muslim Uddin, who runs a training camp at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium in Bogra, a district town…
8:16 AM ET George Dobell Ed Smith has emerged as the favourite to be appointed as England’s new head selector. While the ECB have not confirmed the appointment, Smith is understood to have been preferred from a shortlist that also included Andy Flower, Derek Pringle, Mike Selvey and one of the current selectors, Mick Newell. Angus Fraser, another of the current incumbents, is understood not to have reapplied for a…