Month: June 2018

Cricket South Africa President Chris Nenzani speaks at the inaugural player draft of the T20 Global League  1:04 PM ET Cricket South Africa has come under the most sustained attack yet for its handling of the T20 Global League’s cancellation and subsequent replacement with a tournament co-owned with pay-television broadcaster SuperSport. Sushil Kumar, chairman of Singapore-based City Sports Ltd, who had successfully bid for the Bloemfontein City Blazers, accused CSA…

3:00 AM ET Kent 241 (Fuller 4-86) and 281 (Stewart 103, Kuhn 57) beat Middlesex 56 (Stewart 6-22) and 124 (Podmore 6-36) by 342 runsScorecard Middlesex slumped to a record first-class defeat against Kent, as Harry Podmore took a maiden five-wicket haul against his former employers. For Kent, the 342-run win secured a spot in the top two of the second division, and meant a winning start as Championship captain…

3:00 AM ET Toss Ireland elected to bowl v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Suresh Raina taps the ball down the ground BCCI Ireland captain Gary Wilson elected to bowl in sunny conditions at Malahide and said that their focus would be on their own game rather than India’s strengths. Ireland came into the match with practice from four T20Is in the tri-series from earlier this month that involved Netherlands and…

9:13 AM ET Paul Edwards Yorkshire and Surrey are awaiting the response of the ECB after a Surrey player reported that he had been racially abused by a spectator on the first day of the County Championship match against Yorkshire in Scarborough. The player in question reported the incident to the umpires, Peter Hartley and Paul Pollard, who informed the cricket liaison officer, Wayne Noon. Yorkshire have advised they will…

8:39 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph is set to return from a lengthy injury layoff in Antigua, where a 12-man squad has been named to take on Bangladesh in a two-day game starting June 28. Joseph sustained a stress fracture in his back on a tour of New Zealand last December. Joseph, 21, broke into the West Indies national side as a 19-year old in…

8:32 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A more equitable distribution of ICC revenues, a wider spread of hosts for global events, pooled broadcast rights, and the sharing of bilateral-series revenues between home and away boards; these are the cures international cricket needs, according to a paper authored by Cricket West Indies (CWI) and to be presented at the ICC’s annual conference this week in Dublin. The proposals are part of “Economics…

6:29 AM ET Osman Samiuddin T20 will continue to be used as cricket’s primary vehicle for global growth, meaning that for all the continuing and polarising debate surrounding the 50-over World Cup, the 10-team format is not being expanded anytime soon. The ICC reaffirmed this even as they make public the results of a first, comprehensive global market research, one it hopes will guide them in growing the game further….

5:54 AM ET George Dobell Nottinghamshire are hoping to sign South African batsman Quinton de Kock as an overseas player for the final few weeks of the county season. De Kock is understood to be a target of the club and could join them after South Africa’s tour to Sri Lanka which finishes in mid-August. He is, however, understood to be one of two targets and nothing is finalised just…