Month: September 2018

6:58 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Angelo Mathews was removed as Sri Lanka’s limited-overs captain because of an apparent lack of “cricket fitness”, chief selector Graeme Labrooy has said. Labrooy would not confirm that Mathews was omitted from the squad for the forthcoming England ODIs altogether, as the squad has not yet been officially announced. However, he did confirm that Mathews’ sluggish running between the wickets during the Asia Cup…

6:54 AM ET George Dobell There could be more conflict in county cricket after it emerged that the ECB executive is resisting calls from the first-class counties to increase the number of T20 Blast games played each season. ESPNcricinfo reported in August that several county chairmen were arguing for an increase in the number of matches from 14 to 16 from the start of the 2020 season. But with the…

6:50 AM ET Liam Brickhill Cricket South Africa will receive help from some of BCCI’s senior administrators in running their new T20 cricket league, CSA’s chief executive Thabang Moroe has announced. “I am delighted to announce that that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has accepted our invitation to make some of their senior administrators, who have extensive experience in running the Indian Premier League (IPL), available…

5:43 AM ET Though legspinners are famously furtive about revealing their intentions, there is no such secrecy about Usman Qadir‘s desire to emulate his father Abdul Qadir by playing international cricket. Not for Pakistan, the land of his birth, but for Australia, the country he has found increasingly receptive to his maturing repertoire of legbreaks, googlies and topspinners. On Wednesday, Usman made his state debut for Western Australia, and made…

3:00 AM ET Western Australia 4 for 202 (Philippe 65, Stoinis 47*, Maxwell 1 for 15) beat Victoria 200 (Handscomb 57, Gotch 43, Tye 3 for 47) by six wickets Nathan Coulter-Nile’s speed and Usman Qadir’s guile combined to upend Victoria and set the scene for a bonus-point victory by Western Australia in the domestic limited-overs match at the refurbished Junction Oval in Melbourne. While Victoria toasted the first match…

Agarkar: Tie shows value of Rohit and Dhawan to India (2:02) Did the openers’ failure to kick on hurt India? And what about that batting order? (2:02) 11:56 PM ET KL Rahul wants to make the best use of whatever position he gets, even though he has admitted to being disheartened and “frustrated at times” because team dynamics and combinations haven’t afforded ODI opportunities for him recently. However, he also…

6:07 PM ET Melinda FarrellCricinfo Graeme Swann has called on Moeen Ali to cast aside any self-doubt and take charge of England’s campaign against an “out-of-sorts” Sri Lanka next month. While Moeen has been a consistent presence in England’s ODI side this year, he was dropped from the Test side during the New Zealand tour in March but returned for the fourth Test against India in Southampton, where he produced…

4:23 PM ET Marcus Trescothick, county cricket’s Grand Old Man, ended the annual stage-managed Somerset ritual about whether he would extend his career for another year with the confirmation that he had signed a new one-year contract which will take him beyond his 43rd birthday. Traditionally, as befits the modern era where county cricket clubs imagine themselves as media outlets, Somerset’s website “exclusively revealed” the result of his deliberations around…

3:00 AM ET Kent 167 and xxx for x trail Warwickshire 380 (Sibley 119, Rhodes 110) by xxx runsScorecard A few weeks ago, Dominic Sibley hardly knew where his next run was coming from. Twenty innings into the first-class season, he had reached 30 just three times and had suffered 11 single-figure dismissals. His place in the Warwickshire side was in serious jeopardy. But then, in desperation, he turned to…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Northamptonshire 171 (Robinson 4-55) and 172 for 4 (Curran 83*) beat Sussex 118 (Sanderson 4-32) and 222 (Finch 63, Wells 50, Cotton 5-48) by six wicketsScorecard Ben Curran‘s unbeaten 83 steered Northamptonshire to a six-wicket victory over Sussex at Wantage Road as the home side ended a poor season with a two-day victory. Set 170 to win after Ben Cotton‘s maiden five-wicket haul helped…