Month: May 2019

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Worcestershire 172 and 149 for 9 (Fell 40, Gleeson 4-35) lead Lancashire 201 (Livingstone 69, Parnell 5-47) by 120 runs Lancashire are on course for their third successive Specsavers County Championship win following another action-packed day at Emirates Old Trafford. The Red Rose started this week second in Division Two, on the coat tails of opponents and leaders Worcestershire, who had also won their…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 174 (Salisbury 3-30) and 64 for 1 need a further 53 runs to beat Durham 158 and 132 (Shaw 3-31) Gloucestershire are on the verge of securing their first Specsavers County Championship Division Two win of the season, requiring only another 53 runs with nine wickets in hand to beat Durham at Emirates Riverside. The visitors were only able to add 54 runs…

England’s selectors have taken the common sense option (2:08) Joe Denly and David Willey have a right to feel aggrieved, says George Dobell, but it was the right call. (2:08) 9:56 AM ET George Dobell at Lord’s There are some things – flights, cups of tea and your heartbeat, for example – you want to find predictable. And perhaps it is the same with squad announcements. Squad announcements for global…

9:33 AM ET Finally, after nearly 30 months of being supervised by a court-appointed authority, the BCCI members are on track to regain control with the board elections scheduled for October 22. This significant decision was taken by the three-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) in Delhi today, nearly two-and-a-half years after it was appointed by the Supreme Court to oversee the BCCI’s implementation of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations. The development…

8:42 AM ET A visibly excited Wahab Riaz said he was raring to go and “prove Mickey Arthur wrong”, after being picked against all odds in Pakistan’s World Cup squad. Wahab last played an ODI in June 2017 during Pakistan’s Champions Trophy title run, and was not among the 23 World Cup probables selected last month or the 17 men who were in England recently for the ODI series. Back…

7:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Wakely, the Northamptonshire captain, has withdrawn from his side’s County Championship match against Sussex and been replaced with a concussion substitute after suffering a head injury at home. The 30-year-old Wakely was taken ill before play on the second morning, telling medical staff at the club that he had hit his head on a low beam at his home. An assessment on the ground…

7:27 AM ET Paul Edwards at Newport Hampshire officials are making strenuous efforts in the faint hope that England’s gain will not be not their loss for the Royal London Cup final on Saturday following the selection of James Vince and Liam Dawson for England’s World Cup squad. ESPNcricinfo understands that the county is currently in discussions with the ECB and the ICC in an attempt to have the pair…

7:20 AM ET Vishal Dikshit Handling the “pressure is the most important thing” at the World Cup, stressed Virat Kohli ahead of the Indians’ pre-departure press interaction. India go to the World Cup in England and Wales in good cheer despite a 3-2 reversal at home against Australia in their last series – they have a well-rounded side and are ranked No. 2 in the ICC’s ODI rankings. Though they…

7:13 AM ET There was a moment in England’s final ODI against Pakistan, on a clear, bright spring afternoon in Yorkshire, that spoke to the sense of possibility and excitement that surrounds the team right now, a matter of days from the start of a home World Cup. When Jos Buttler stuck out a boot to block Sarfaraz Ahmed’s back-foot glide, and then in the same movement swept up the…

6:15 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer believes that his experience of performing under pressure at the IPL will help him to deal with the spotlight of his maiden World Cup, after he was named in England’s final World Cup squad only weeks after making his international debut. Jofra, 24, has played just three ODIs and a T20I since his first appearance for England in Malahide earlier this month. But…