Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc celebrate Australia’s Ashes win 10:15 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi A maximum of 120 points will be up for grabs in each series of the World Test Championship (WTC), which is due to be begin after the 2019 World Cup. In a system incentivised towards winning, a draw will earn teams one-third of the points available for a win while a tie…
Middlesex have found it tough going in Division Two © Getty Images Middlesex’s head coach, Richard Scott, has left his role with the county, who are mid-table in Division Two of the County Championship and failed to qualify for the knockouts in the Royal London Cup. Richard Johnson, the assistant coach, will take on Scott’s role for the remainder of the Championship campaign. Daniel Vettori is already in position to…
9:17 AM ET Liam Brickhill in Harare Seamer Donald Tiripano has replaced the injured Kyle Jarvis in Zimbabwe’s squad for the T20I tri-series, involving Australia and Pakistan. Jarvis, Zimbabwe’s senior seamer, injured his bowling hand while attempting a catch during Pakistan’s innings in the tri-series opener in Harare on Sunday. Not ideal but will be back soon Source: ESPN Crickinfo
9:05 AM ET Birmingham Bears T20 best: Winners 2014, Beaten finalists 2003 and 2017. Semi-finalists 2015.2017: BF; Run Rate 8.76; Economy Rate 8.53Captain: Grant ElliottCoach: Jim TroughtonOverseas Players: Jeetan Patel (NZ), Colin de Grandhomme (NZ) Ashley Giles, director of cricket at Edgbaston, assembled a new-look T20 side so successfully in his first season in charge that the Bears finished beaten finalists, outdone by Nottinghamshire on their home turf. Colin de…
Adam Zampa was chuffed about outsmarting MS Dhoni © BCCI Essex Eagles T20 best: SF 2006, 2008, 2010, 20132017: 8th, South Group; Run rate 8.70; Economy rate 8.58Captain: Ryan ten DoeschateCoach: Anthony McGrathOverseas Players: Neil Wagner (NZ), Adam Zampa (Aus), Peter Siddle (Aus) Essex, perpetually nearly men, had qualified from the group stages five times in a row until last season’s blip and the addition to the coaching staff of…
6:12 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Veteran television journalist Rajat Sharma will be the new president of the Delhi District Cricket Association, after winning the elections at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday. President: Rajat Sharma Vice-President: Rakesh Kumar Bansal Secretary: Vinod Kumar Tihara Joint Secretary: Ranjan Manchanda Treasurer: O P Sharma First-class Cricket Director: Sanjay Bhardwaj Women Director: Renu Khanna DDCA Directors: Alok Mittal, Apurv Jain, Nitin Gupta, Shiv Nandan…
Ben Slater contributed a half-century © Getty Images Nottinghamshire are closing in on the signing of Derbyshire’s Ben Slater. Slater, the 26-year-old opening batsman, is in the middle of a productive season for Derbyshire – he is averaging 43 in the Championship – and was understood to have attracted the interest of several counties. Only three men in Division Two of the County Championship have scored more runs this season….
5:54 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shrikant Wagh, the Vidarbha allrounder, took all ten wickets in an innings while playing for Stokesley Cricket Club in the North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League on Saturday. Wagh took 10 for 39 in 11.4 overs against Middlesbrough Cricket Club to set up a 135-run victory. Put in to bat, Stokesley made 232 for 9 in 50 overs in the ECB Premier Division match;…
3:00 AM ET Toss Australia chose to bowl v Pakistan Australia’s fielders chase an inflatable melon Getty Images Australia’s captain Aaron Finch won the toss and chose to bowl against Pakistan in the second match of the Twenty20 triangular tournament in Harare. Having trounced the hosts Zimbabwe in the tournament opener on Sunday, Pakistan named an unchanged team to tackle the Australians, who lost six out of six limited-overs fixtures away…
1:21 AM ET Bans for Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft won’t truly hit home until they are forced to watch their Australian teammates play Test matches on home soil this summer, the Cricket Australia Board director Mark Taylor believes. Smith, Warner and Bancroft made their returns to competitive cricket via the modest avenues of second tier Twenty20 tournaments in Canada and the Northern Territory over the weekend, and…