8:34 AM ET Stuart Poynter has effectively called time on his international career with Ireland after committing to Durham in a new two-year deal. Poynter, Durham’s wicketkeeper and captain during this season’s Vitality Blast campaign, was forced to choose between club and country following a change to the ECB’s eligibility rules in September, in the wake of Ireland’s promotion to a Full Test Nation in 2017. Prior to that change,…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India women 165 for 2 (Punia 75*, Rodrigues 55) beat South Africa women 164 (Kapp 54, Woolvardt 39, Goswami 3-33, Bisht 2-28) by eight wickets Jhulan Goswami, a month short of celebrating her 37th birthday, proved why she is still a key member of India’s ODI set-up, as her three-wicket haul set up a comfortable eight-wicket win for the hosts over South Africa in the…
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James Anderson undergoes a fitness test on his injured calf © Getty Images James Anderson is set to swap Old Trafford for the Etihad, after arranging to train at Manchester City in a bid to recover from the calf injury that wrecked his Ashes campaign. Anderson, 37, bowled just four overs in the first Test against Australia at Edgbaston in July before suffering a recurrence of the injury that he…
6:50 AM ET Left to him, Virat Kohli would give teams extra points for away wins in the World Test Championship. On the eve of India’s second Test against South Africa in Pune, Kohli said that the arrival of the championship had encouraged teams to play positive cricket, and given them the incentive to go for wins when they might have earlier settled for draws. But he did hope there…
5:50 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia women’s nine-wicket win in the final ODI over Sri Lanka women at Allan Border Field in Brisbane on Wednesday was a world record – their 18th win in a row in the format, surpassing the run by the team led by Belinda Clark between 1997 and 1999. Meg Lanning, the captain of the record-setting team, was modest at the post-match press interaction, but conceded…
5:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jason Gillespie will remain as Sussex head coach at least until the end of the 2022 season, after agreeing a contract extension. Gillespie, who won the County Championship with Yorkshire in consecutive seasons in 2014 and 2015, moved to Hove at the start of the 2018 season but has so far been unable to oversee the side’s return to Division One. However, Sussex have enjoyed…
4:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mo Bobat, the man whose analytical approach helped to change the way that England’s squads are selected, has been named as the ECB’s new Performance Director for men’s cricket. Bobat, who is currently the board’s Player Identification Lead, will take charge from David Parsons, who left the post in July. He will work closely alongside Chris Silverwood, the newly appointed head coach, and Ed Smith,…
Starc relishes return to home conditions (2:54) Mitchell Starc is looking forward to finding rhythm back on home soil as New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield campaign begins. (2:54) 4:42 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Trevor Hohns, Australia’s national selector, has stopped short of guaranteeing David Warner his spot for the opening Test of the season following his woeful Ashes series. Warner managed just 95 runs – the lowest tally for an…
2:43 AM ET Alex Malcolm Australian cricket loves a coronation. Two highly-coveted crowns are the Test captaincy and the Test wicketkeeper. Tim Paine currently holds both, and has just retained the Ashes, yet there is a clamour to anoint Alex Carey as the heir. But while all the conversations happen around him, Carey knows all too well, through losing his dream of playing professional football in the Australian Football League,…