Month: March 2019

4:00 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff UAE will host the Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers in 2019, while Scotland will host the women’s edition, the ICC has confirmed. The ICC has also announced plans for an age group Women’s World Cup and a Women’s Cricket Committee, to be headed by former England captain Clare Connor. Qualifying for the 2020 Men’s T20 World Cup will be staged from October 11 to November…

3:57 PM ET The ICC is believed to have turned down the BCCI’s proposal for member countries to “sever” ties with other members that harbor terrorism, saying the ICC was not the appropriate forum to take such decisions. The proposal came in a letter sent by the BCCI soon after the terror attack in Pulwama, in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, in which more than 40 paramilitary…

12:28 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli felt India being reduced to 99 for 4 against Australia was “good for the team” as it allowed their lower-middle order to see off the game. Kedar Jadhav and MS Dhoni put together an unbroken 141-run stand to secure victory by six wickets. “It was a difficult sort of a game,” Kohli said. “We did a good job with the ball. The wicket…

Morne Morkel, with his son, during his last national anthem as a South Africa player  5:48 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former South Africa fast bowler Morne Morkel has warned that more South Africans could decide to follow the Kolpak route in the near future, urging Cricket South Africa to be proactive about keeping players at home. “They have to sit down and come up with plans because they’re going to…

4:17 AM ET Kane Williamson quietly scored 107 runs off 125 balls on the third day and, quite characteristically, made little noise when he reached the second double-hundred of his Test career. You can ascribe that to the New Zealand way of keeping things low-profile, but a a team batting performance as gigantic as 715 for 6 perhaps needed a batsman like Williamson, who exudes calm while holding one end…