Month: September 2019

Miguel Cummins and West Indies coach Stuart Law look on after having a chat in between overs  10:01 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Middlesex have signed Miguel Cummins for the rest of their County Championship campaign. Barbados born fast bowler Cummins has started training with the Middlesex squad and will be available for selection against Durham, starting on Tuesday at Lord’s, followed by matches against Lancashire and Derbyshire. Cummins has played…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 129 for 2 (Gill 66*, Gaikwad 30, Ngidi 1-18) trail South Africa A 164 (Jansen 45*, Piedt 33, Thakur 3-29) by 35 runs India A extended their dominance over South Africa A on day one of the first four-day match in Thiruvananthapuram, bowling them out for 164 before going to stumps within 35 runs of taking a first-innings lead with eight wickets in…

9:45 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Doug Bracewell has joined Northamptonshire’s promotion push for the final three games of the County Championship season. New Zealand allrounder Bracewell returns to Wantage Road having represented Northamptonshire in a handful Championship matches last year. While Northants’ head coach, David Ripley, conceded that Bracewell wasn’t the club’s first target, he was delighted to welcome him back to the club. “Initially we’d spoken with Kemar Roach…

9:12 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa quick Ayabonga Khaka and wicketkeeper-batsman Trisha Chetty have returned to the national squads after staying away from international cricket for more than a year due to injuries. While Chetty, who last played an ODI in May 2018, returned only to the one-day squad, Khaka, who last played international cricket in June last year, was picked for both ODIs and T20Is in India in…

8:26 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rashid Khan, not yet 21 and in his first Test as captain, spun Afghanistan to a memorable win, by 224 runs in Chattogram, and picked up the Man-of-the-Match award too, for his 11 wickets and half-century in the first innings. It was a time to celebrate, but also bid farewell to Mohammad Nabi from Test cricket, a job Rashid did in style by dedicating his…

6:41 AM ET Nathan Lyon‘s spinning finger made a good metaphor for the Australian spin bowler’s nerves by the end of the Old Trafford Test, its callus split in two, held together by superglue, painkillers and a fierce desperation to win the Ashes. As his teammates all looked achingly towards one of the ground’s big screens for confirmation of the final wicket with less than an hour’s play remaining, Lyon’s…

6:37 AM ET Bangladesh’s poor showing, especially with the bat, against Afghanistan has led to a heated – and public – difference of opinion between captain Shakib Al Hasan and BCB president Nazmul Hassan. The statements – made in separate press interactions on Sunday, the fourth day of the Chattogram Test – come on the back of a disappointing World Cup, where Bangladesh finished eighth out of ten teams. Speaking…

Amol Muzumdar has previously worked with India Under-19 teams and IPL side Rajasthan Royals  5:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket South Africa (CSA) has appointed former Mumbai batsman Amol Muzumdar as interim batting coach for South Africa’s three-match Test series against India which starts on October 2 in Visakhapatnam. The 44-year-old last played at first-class level for Andhra in 2013 and has since held several coaching positions, besides being a…