11:37 AM ET George Dobell at Lord’s The ECB have extended their All Stars kids cricket programme to accommodate for the enthusiasm generated by England’s successful World Cup campaign. The scheme, aimed to provided children aged between 5 and 8 with their first organised experience of the sport, usually ends as the school holidays begin. But the ECB, eager to capitalise on renewed interest in the sport, have arranged for…
10:39 AM ET George Dobell at Lord’s Marcus Trescothick is set to join the England coaching team for the first two Tests of the Ashes series. Trescothick, the former England opening batsman, has recently announced his decision to retire as a player at the end of this season and is currently struggling to break into the Somerset side. He will spend the training days ahead of the Edgbaston and Lord’s…
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3:00 AM ET Bangladesh 285 for 5 (Mithun 91, Mushfiqur 50, Kumara 2-26) beat Sri Lanka Board President’s XI 282 for 8 (Shanaka 86, Shehan 56, Soumya 2-29, Rubel 2-31) by five wickets Mohammad Mithun and Mushfiqur Rahim steered Bangladesh to a five-wicket win in their only warm-up match against Sri Lanka Board President’s XI at the P Sara Oval in Colombo. Mithun fell nine short of a hundred, having…
Shubman Gill was India A’s best batsman in the one-day series against West Indies A 9:02 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shubman Gill has admitted to being disappointed at not being selected for India’s tour of the West Indies, saying he expected to be there in at least one of the squads. India will play three T20Is, three ODIs and two Tests against West Indies, with the first T20I on August…
8:49 AM ET The ICC has appointed Ehsan Mani, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, as the head of one of its most powerful committees – Finance & Commercial Affairs. Mani’s appointment brings to an end a 10-year stranglehold that the Indian, English and Australian cricket boards had over the F&CA, which is responsible for designing budgets for ICC events and distributing money to its member countries. The other members…
7:18 AM ET Kevin Roberts, the Cricket Australia chief executive, has conceded that club cricket is in “gradual decline” and admitted that there is widespread disaffection in the game’s grassroots following numerous signs of anger manifest in reports in the nation’s two major newspaper groups. In May, News Corp published a story revealing an old internal document in which Cricket Australia had called for a generational change in the leadership…
5:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff James Anderson has been ruled out of the one-off Test against Ireland at Lord’s, starting tomorrow, and is a significant doubt for England’s Ashes opener at Edgbaston in just over a week’s time, after failing to recover from a torn calf muscle. Anderson, 37, has not bowled competitively for almost three weeks, after sustaining a minor tear to his right calf while playing for Lancashire…
4:05 AM ET To say James Pattinson has unfinished business in Ashes cricket in England would be quite an understatement. It’s six years since he played the first two matches of the 2013 encounter at Trent Bridge and Lord’s, tearfully withdrawing in the middle of the second match with a side strain that was to be only an early instance of the litany of injuries that would follow. Foot, back,…
2:14 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The conclusion of the Women’s Ashes Test in Taunton has raised the question whether the format should be played across five days, after a combination of rain and stodgy scoring rates stymied the contest. Australia batted out the final day of the one-off match, securing the draw they needed to retain the multi-format Ashes, with the coach Matthew Mott saying they had considered ways of…