Month: May 2019

Kumar Sangakkara poses in front of his newly unveiled portrait in the Lord’s Pavilion  11:27 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kumar Sangakkara, the former Sri Lanka captain, has been announced as the first non-British President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and will take up his one-year post on October 1, 2019. Sangakkara’s nomination was announced by the current President, Anthony Wreford, at the MCC Annual General Meeting at Lord’s on Wednesday….

Vijay Mallya attempts a late cut during an exhibition match on the sidelines of IPL 2011  8:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Vijay Mallya, the Indian businessman, will lose ownership of Caribbean Premier League side Barbados Tridents ahead of the upcoming 2019 season. Damien O’Donohoe, the league CEO, has confirmed that talks are on with a number of prospective buyers, and new owners would be announced ahead of the player draft…

6:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Wicketkeeper Gary Wilson, who missed Ireland’s winter tours for the T20I Quadrangular series in Oman and the tour of India against Afghanistan, has been declared fit for the start of the Ireland home season. He has been included in a 14-man ODI squad for the one-off ODI against England in Malahide on May 3 and the start of the ODI tri-series with West Indies and…

6:02 AM ET Aaron Finch has opened up about the “huge anxiety” he felt during his form slump and the possibility that it could lead to him being left out of Australia’s World Cup campaign. Finch endured a nightmare home season, during which he was dropped from the Test side, and, coupled with the pending returns of David Warner and Steven Smith, murmurs had begun about who would make way….

5:08 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former Australia assistant coach David Saker has distanced himself from last year’s Newlands ball-tampering scandal, saying that the only kind of work on the ball he had condoned was to have team members throw it into the ground to aid reverse swing. Saker, who after successful stints with England and Victoria was named Darren Lehmann‘s assistant in 2016, resigned at the end of this year’s…

5:05 AM ET In the last week of March this year, Chennai Super Kings lost the toss in two successive matches, bringing a brief break to an incredible run of luck. Either side of those two lost tosses, spanning IPL seasons, are winning streaks of eight and nine with the coin.* They have lost just six of this run of 19 matches overall. At the bottom of the IPL 2019…