9:21 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya The Sri Lanka Cricket elections set for May 19 could be postponed after the country’s sports ministry claimed the board had violated procedure. In a letter sent to SLC, acting sports minister Faiszer Mustapha pointed out sports law that states an election committee can only be appointed and sanctioned at an Extraordinary General Meeting with the approval of SLC members. As SLC had appointed the…
Junior Dala in his follow through © BCCI Fast bowler Junior Dala has replaced his injured South Africa team-mate Chris Morris at Delhi Daredevils in IPL 2018for the rest of the season. Morris, who was the only overseas player to be retained by Daredevils, for INR 7.1 crore (USD 1 million approx.), has been sidelined with a back injury. Dala had set a base price of INR 20 lakh (USD…
7:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Keith Bradshaw, the SACA chief executive, says he hopes that the ECB’s new 100-ball tournament is not “innovation for innovation’s sake”, ten years after his own proposals for a franchise-style T20 tournament in England and Wales were deemed too radical for serious consideration by the board. Bradshaw, who was chief executive at MCC for five years from 2006, returned to South Australia in 2011 to…
7:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A high-scoring draw in Rajshahi, between Central Zone and East Zone, closed out this season’s Bangladesh Cricket League. Liton Das and Abdul Mazid struck double centuries while Shadman Islam, Afif Hossain and Mohammad Saifuddin made hundreds. Batting first, Central Zone posted 546 with Mazid making 205 off 246 balls with 22 fours and eight sixes. Shadman’s 112 off 157 balls contained 11 fours and three…
3:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies’ Test and ODI captain Jason Holder will lead Barbados Tridents in the forthcoming season of the Caribbean Premier League. Holder, who had missed the previous edition due to West Indies’ tour of England, will take over captaincy reins from Kieron Pollard. Holder, 26, has captained West Indies in 56 ODIs and 21 Tests and has played 14 first-class matches for his regional side…
Each of our bowlers is playing his role well – Sandeep (1:56) Sandeep Sharma talks about how Sunrisers have defended two low totals, his role in the bowling unit and how he read the pitch (1:56) 11:42 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff How difficult is it for a team to stage a turnaround – defend two low totals in consecutive games after conceding 180-plus in two back-to-back matches before that? That,…
Switch Hit: 100 reasons to worry? (45:14) Mark Butcher and Andrew Miller join Alan Gardner to discuss the ECB’s proposed 100-ball tournament and Ed Smith’s appointment as National Selector (45:14) 2:22 PM ET George Dobell Mick Newell has urged the English game to resist the temptation to restructure the County Championship into conferences. Newell, director of cricket at Nottinghamshire (and, for now at least, an England selector), has instead pleaded…
1:09 PM ET The ICC was forced to abandon the notion of staging World Cup matches at London’s Olympic Stadium next year, due to concerns that the setting sun would render one end of the pitch unusable from a playing and television perspective. Despite a clear desire to incorporate East London’s iconic stadium into plans for what has been billed as the “World’s Greatest Cricket Celebration”, the tournament organisers were…
Play 45:14 Switch Hit: 100 reasons to worry? Eoin Morgan, England’s limited-overs captain, has thrown his weight behind the ECB’s 100-ball concept, describing himself as a “big fan” and suggesting it was crucial for the governing body to innovate in order to stimulate waning interest in cricket in the UK. Morgan was one of only three players briefed on the plans before they were announced last week – England women’s…
11:22 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The number of teams with status to play international T20 cricket will increase drastically from the present 18 to 104. The ICC has approved international status for T20 matches between all of its Associate Members. The decision came after a week of meetings in Kolkata. “The move, across both men’s and women’s cricket, is part of the wider strategic aim of using the T20 format…