6:26 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes has capped off a dream season by being named the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) Players’ Player of the Year in recognition of his World Cup and Ashes heroics. Nominated alongside Ryan Higgins, Dominic Sibley and Cricket Writers’ Club Player of the Year Simon Harmer, Stokes received the most votes from his peers to become the sixth player to have achieved the Young Player/Player’s…
12:43 PM ET Alec Stewart is understood to have withdrawn from the race to become England’s head coach. Stewart, the director of cricket at Surrey, was shortlisted for the role and asked to an interview this week. But it is understood that he notified the ECB over the weekend that he was no longer available for the position. It is believed he cited family reasons and a reluctance to embrace…
12:27 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Desmond Haynes and Phil Simmons are in the race to be the next full-time head coach of the West Indies men’s team, along with interim coach Floyd Reifer, Cricket West Indies revealed on Wednesday. The three men were shortlisted after six candidates took part in interviews conducted by a CWI panel; there will now be a round of final interviews, to be completed by October…
11:21 AM ET Ian Bell is set to be confirmed as England’s batting coach at the U19 World Cup. While Bell missed the entire 2019 season due to injury, he plans to continue his playing career in 2020 and has beaten several more established coaching candidates to the role. The appointment underlines how well thought of Bell is and suggests he can look forward to a career in coaching when…
My mum’s ‘over the moon’ with my debut – Muthusamy (1:30) South Africa’s spin-bowling allrounder on his maiden Test and the Vizag pitch (1:30) 10:19 AM ET Senuran Muthusamy‘s mother may be “over the moon” with her son’s Test debut, but it is his grandmother who can take credit for his success. After all, she used to give a young Muthusamy throwdowns in the back garden, something he described to…
9:09 AM ET Less than a week after Shanta Rangswamy stepped down from the BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), the other two members of the ad-hoc panel – Kapil Dev and Anshuman Gaekwad – have stepped down too. The resignations follow the notice of conflict of interest served to the three by the BCCI ethics officer Justice (Retd) DK Jain, who acted on a complaint filed by Sanjeev Gupta, a…
7:45 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Nida Dar has become the first Pakistan woman to sign a deal with an international cricket league, and is on track to take the field for Sydney Thunder in the Women’s Big Bash League later this year. The 32-year-old Pakistan stalwart has played 96 T20Is and 71 ODIs, most recently in a T20I series against South Africa, where she took five wickets and scored 192…
3:00 AM ET Stumps India 202 for 0 (Rohit 115*, Agarwal 84*) v South Africa Six years after he scored a century on debut, Rohit Sharma resurrected his underwhelming Test career with a smooth and authoritative century in his first innings as an opener. In the company of Mayank Agarwal, he put together India’s 13th 200-run stand to quickly re-emphasise what a difficult assignment South Africa were on. Agarwal finished…
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka opt to bat v Pakistan Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat, in their pursuit of a series-levelling victory in the third and final ODI of the series against Pakistan. Pakistan made two changes to the XI that won on Monday. Imam-ul-Haq who hurt the webbing on his hand, has been replaced by Abid Ali. They have also swapped one left-arm spinning allrounder…
6:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes’ heroics at Headingley and Lord’s this summer have been voted as the sport’s greatest performances in half a century, in a poll conducted to mark the 50th anniversary of the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA). More than 1000 cricket fans were surveyed by the PCA and NatWest ahead of tonight’s PCA Awards in London, at which Stokes has been shortlisted for the prestigious Players’…