3:00 AM ET Big Picture The battle between the eighth and ninth-ranked Test sides will not necessarily attract a lot of viewers, particularly with the football World Cup getting into its business end at the same time. The Antigua Test, therefore, might go under the radar, but it will still be mightily important for West Indies and Bangladesh to win. If Bangladesh win, they will be back to winning ways…
11:58 AM ET Liam Brickhill Zimbabwe are in the doldrums. They had lost five frontline players before this tri-series began, lost their senior seamer to injury in their opening game, and now it seems they might have lost the backing of their long-suffering fans. The Zimbabwe players fielding in front of the boisterous Castle Corner stands at Harare Sports Club copped some flak during Aaron Finch‘s record-breaking knock, with allrounder…
11:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hampshire have announced that England spinner Mason Crane is to miss the rest of the season with a recurrence of the stress fracture he sustained to his lower back over the winter. Crane, who made his Test debut during in Sydney during the Ashes, was subsequently ruled out of England’s New Zealand tour after experiencing discomfort during the warm-up matches. He made his return during…
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Aaron Finch has now broken the world record for the highest individual score in a T20I twice, and the Australian captain said that his 172 against Zimbabwe was “up there” as one of the best innings he has ever played. “It’s nice to break my own record,” said Finch. “Satisfying. It’s something that I’ll look back on when I’ve finished playing and be really proud of. Any time you get…
9:57 AM ET It took Dale Steyn 10 years and 225 days – and 80 Test matches – to take 400 Test wickets. He was the third-fastest in the world to get there in match terms. It has been three years since, and Steyn’s career has been punctuated with injuries. He has played only six Tests and added 19 wickets to his tally. He needs three scalps more to overtake…
9:45 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff David Richardson, the ICC’s chief executive since 2012, is to step down from the position after next year’s World Cup. He will move on at the end of his current contract, having overseen a period of great upheaval at cricket’s world governing body, with the process to find his successor set to begin immediately. From the “Big Three” shake-up at the ICC – subsequently reversed…
9:07 AM ET Dale Steyn bowled 102 overs last month, 29.3 more than in his last two years in Test cricket, in a bid to prove that he is ready for the rigours of the international game once again. Steyn last played for South Africa six months ago, in the New Year’s Test against India, where he was returning from 13 months on the sidelines after shoulder surgery and injured…
8:41 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Bangladesh added four new faces – Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Nazmul Islam, Abu Hider and Abu Jayed – to their ODI squad for the three-match series against West Indies starting on July 22. Liton Das and Mosaddek Hossain also earned recalls as Mashrafe Mortaza prepares to lead a new-look side in his first assignment since January. Mashrafe Mortaza (capt), Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Anamul Haque,…
8:34 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI has laid down strict guidelines for the conduct of state-run Twenty20 leagues, listing out the windows during which the tournaments can be played and also clamping down on the personnel, support staff, structure and frequency of these tournaments. The move, it is learned, was prompted by the BCCI’s own initiative to root out any unauthorised elements involved in the conduct of state leagues,…