4:09 AM ET Liam Brickhill Former Zimbabwe allrounder and national coach Heath Streak has been picked up by Somerset for a short stint as a consultant bowling coach. Streak will join the county on their pre-season trip to Abu Dhabi. “I’m excited to work with such an exciting group of bowlers during the pre-season campaign,” Streak said. “Somerset has a rich history and I hope to impart some of what…
Kate Cross picked up the valuable wicket of Mithali Raj © PTI England women 114 for 5 (Wyatt 64*, Winfield 29, Bisht 2-23) beat India women 111 for 8 (Brunt 3-17, Smith 2-11) by five wickets India needed a big effort, especially with the bat, to level the three-match T20I series against England after losing the first game comprehensively. It didn’t quite materialise, as they only put up 111 for…
3:01 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Lasith Malinga pulled no punches in his assessment of his team’s performance in the defeat in the second ODI against South Africa in Centurion, warning his team-mates that they needed to value and respect the fact that they were playing international cricket for Sri Lanka. “I think they didn’t understand,” a furious Malinga said at the post-match presentation. “I feel this is not a gift….
3:00 AM ET Alex Malcolm Tasmania 8 for 234 (Wade 86) trail Victoria 454 (Maddinson 136, Harris 94, Gotch 93, Meredith 4-86) by 220 runs Victoria’s bowlers have dominated on a wet and windy day in Melbourne to put the home side firmly in control of their clash with Tasmania at the Junction Oval. Andrew Fekete and Scott Boland took three wickets each but all four of Victoria’s frontline bowlers…
Tamim Iqbal falls after scoring a hundred © Getty Images Big Picture New Zealand have almost everything in place in Wellington to wrap up the Test series against Bangladesh. They have the pace attack, which has already sent a stern message across to the visiting batsmen. They also have the firepower in batting, the record-setting 715 for 6 in the Hamilton Test proving to be the difference between the two…
Daniel Worrall played for Gloucestershire in the last county season © Getty Images Ashes hopeful Daniel Worrall has been left devastated after a hamstring injury all but ended his Sheffield Shield season with South Australia. The lively 27-year-old right-arm swing bowler has been on the radar of Australia’s national selection panel as a possible England tourist after he took 17 wickets in two Shield matches in November before succumbing to…
9:51 PM ET Alex Malcolm Brisbane Heat have named former Australia coach Darren Lehmann as their new head coach for next season, less than a year after he resigned from the national team in the wake of the Newlands ball-tampering scandal. Lehmann emerged as the preferred candidate after an extensive search to replace Daniel Vettori, who stood down at the end of BBL08. Lehmann has not coached any team since…
5:09 PM ET The Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) appear to have won their fight to see a marked rise in the pay of players in England and Wales. The PCA – the players’ union – had previously expressed their surprise at news that the ECB did not envisage a rise in the salary cap or the salary collar at counties despite their lucrative new broadcasting deal, worth £1.1billion from 2020…
2:55 PM ET It looks almost certain that England’s final two games of their Caribbean tour will be broadcast on Sky, despite a dispute in the build-up to the contests. ESPNcricinfo understands that a deal has been agreed in principle between Sky and Cricket West Indies (CWI) with an expectation it will be signed off by the board on Thursday. Coverage of the matches was thrown into doubt after Sky…
2:47 PM ET Obed McCoy is set to be called into the West Indies squad. McCoy, the 22-year-old left-arm fast bowler, replaces Andre Russell who has been forced to pull out after a recurrence of a long-standing knee problem. McCoy, blessed with pace, control and one of the best slower balls in the business, has long been seen as one of the most exciting bowling prospects in the Caribbean. He…