Month: July 2018

12:47 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Robin Smith, the former chairman of Leeds Building Society, has been reappointed as the chairman of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, in the wake of the resignation of the previous incumbent Steve Denison. Smith, 75, was previously Yorkshire chairman between 2003 and 2006, and has more recently been deputy chairman and senior independent director. His return to the role was unanimously agreed during a meeting at…

‘Lot of spots still open in the middle order’ – Bangar (2:02) India’s batting coach insists the side is using the remaining ODIs to find their strongest batting order leading up to the 2019 World Cup (2:02) 12:32 PM ET India are yet to work out a “settled” middle order in ODIs and they do not have the “depth” in their lower order. With the World Cup a year away…

Play 02:28 ‘England treating third ODI like a World Cup knockout match’ – Wood England will use the third and final ODI at Headingley to simulate the pressure of a World Cup knockout, according to Mark Wood. With the series locked at one-all and the previous two games ending in a comfortable win for each side, the scales are balanced. However a win for England, after losing the T20I series…

What is your favourite MS Dhoni shot? (1:15) Fans who came to watch the match at Lord’s demonstrate their favourite MS Dhoni shot (1:15) 3:00 AM ET Big Picture For the second series in a row, England-India goes down to a decider. For the second series in a row, England have come back from being befuddled by Kuldeep Yadav to level things up. For the second series in a row,…

10:18 AM ET Annesha Ghosh Former India offspinner Ramesh Powar has been appointed the women’s team’s interim head coach, a week after Tushar Arothe resigned from the post following a fallout with some of the high-profile regulars. Powar, who was approached by the BCCI on Sunday, took up the job after former India wicketkeeper-batsman and current Vidarbha head coach Chandrakant Pandit declined the offer last week “on the grounds of…

10:09 AM ET South Africa coach Dale Benkenstein put his team’s struggles against spin down to their mental make-up after their twin collapses in the first Test in Galle. South Africa were routed 126 and 73 – their two lowest totals in Sri Lanka, and lowest since readmission – and Benkenstein said the poor performance arose from a lack of match practice and, chiefly, an absence of mental toughness on…

8:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Tabraiz Shamsi, the left-arm wristspinner, has left South Africa’s tour of Sri Lanka for family reasons. No date has been set for his return. Shamsi took four wickets in his first red-ball Test in Galle last week, which South Africa lost by 278 runs. In the first innings, Shamsi outbowled Keshav Maharaj, the left-arm orthodox, who had been ill in the build up to the…

8:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Bangladesh’s ODI captain Mashrafe Mortaza will travel to the West Indies late on Monday, for the ODI series that begins on July 22. Mashrafe didn’t fly out with the rest of the ODI specialists earlier this week in order to be by the side of his wife, who had been ill for the last four weeks. However, an improvement in her health – she has…

7:25 AM ET Andrew Hughes Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal and coach Chandika Hathurusingha have been suspended for four ODIs, in addition to the two Tests they are already sitting out, after receiving the maximum possible punishment for their spirit of cricket offence. Team manager Asanka Gurusinha also receives the same sanction. Following a ball-tampering row, the trio had been charged with the level 3 offence over Sri Lanka’s refusal…

6:03 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Azhar Ali, Pakistan’s Test opener, will make his first appearances in the County Championship later this summer after signing a seven-match deal with Somerset that will take him through to the end of the season. Azhar, who had been in Somerset’s sights since the end of Pakistan’s Test tour in May and June, has been signed as a replacement for the Australian Matt Renshaw, who…