11:19 AM ET “The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.” Adam Gilchrist once penned a book called Walking To Victory. For Justin Langer, a more appropriate title might be Reading For Victory. Like a bowerbird, he pulls quotes, observations and stories from…
11:08 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The eighth edition of the Caribbean Premier League has been scheduled to be played between August 19 and September 26 in 2020. The window also meant that there would be no overlap with ECB’s new event The Hundred, slated for July next year. According to a CPL release, the organisers wanted a clear window for the tournament so they could have all West Indies contracted…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 208 for 6 (Pandey 81, Dube 45, Nortje 2-41) beat South Africa A 207 for 8 (Klaasen 44, Malan 37, Krunal 2-23) by four wickets30 overs a side A counterattacking 59-ball 81 from Manish Pandey helped India A to an unassailable three-nil lead over South Africa A, as they ran down a target of 208 with four wickets and 13 balls remaining. The…
9:11 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ricardo Vasconcelos has signed a new five-year contract with Northamptonshire. Johannesburg-born opener Vasconcelos still had two years remaining on his previous contract but has penned the new deal to secure his place at Wantage Road until the end of the 2024 season. “It was an easy decision for me to stay here.” said Vasconcelos “Northants took a chance on me and picked me out of…
8:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Stories of superstitious cricketers not moving round the dressing room during tense moments are not uncommon, but Joe Denly took the fear of bad juju to extremes when he found himself confined to to the loo during Ben Stokes‘ historic knock at Headingley. Denly said while some of his team-mates were enjoying the best seats in the house as Stokes and Jack Leach carried England…
7:34 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB have revealed 11 venues which will host women’s matches for The Hundred, along with the selection process that will determine the make-up of each team. Player registration for the new competition starting next July is open this month but, while the men’s edition will have a player draft on October 20, the women’s version will have a two-stage “bespoke player selection process”, according…
7:11 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Nitin Menon will make his debut as a Test umpire when Afghanistan host West Indies in Dehradun from November 27 this year, making him the 62nd Indian to be an on-field official in the longest format. Menon, who represented Madhya Pradesh at the age-group levels as a batsman, had a brief spell in List A cricket, playing two games for Madhya Pradesh in 2004 and…
5:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hales has signed a new two-year deal to represent Notts Outlaws in white-ball cricket, extending his association with the club to the end of the 2021 season. Since joining Notts in 2008, Hales has amassed 6,415 limited-overs runs at a combined average of 34.34. In that time, right-hander Hales has hit 11 centuries and 41 fifties, with a highest score of 187 not out…
Let’s talk about six, baby: Kumar Dharmasena’s controversial decision in the final is going to be a conversation piece for a long time to come Sep 1, 2019 Alex Malcolm Experienced umpires Kumar Dharmasena and Marais Erasmus, who stood in the eventful 2019 men’s World Cup final, have been appointed for the final two Tests of the Ashes series. The standard of umpiring in the first three Tests has been…
2:52 AM ET As they fight to recover from the setback at Headingley and seal the Ashes with victory at Old Trafford, Australia’s tourists have called back Steve Waugh to help mentor the team after he was conspicuously absent during the Leeds Test. Originally scheduled to be with the team for only the first two Tests of the series, Waugh toyed with rushing back from a prior commitment in Australia…