6:08 PM GMT Might we have just witnessed a changing of the guard? In the dying moments of the second Test, England had a slip cordon that included Ollie Pope (aged 22 and playing his fifth Test), Zak Crawley (aged 21 and playing his second), Dom Bess (aged 22 and playing his third) and Dom Sibley (aged 24 and playing his fourth). Sam Curran, aged 21 and playing his 15th…
6:02 PM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Dom Bess has admitted that he “lost a lot of confidence” in his game while out of the England team, after finding himself unable to break into the Somerset team a month after his Test debut in 2018. After his county team-mate Jack Leach injured his thumb the day before a squad…
5:10 PM GMT James Anderson has been ruled out of the remainder of the tour of South Africa due to a left rib injury. Anderson, the leading wicket-taker among fast bowlers in Test history, sustained the injury on the final day of the Cape Town Test. With England pressing for victory, he continued to bowl despite the pain and despite the knowledge that, by doing so, he risked exacerbating the…
© BCB The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will decide on Thursday if it will take up the PCB’s revised offer of playing two Tests in Pakistan later this month. ESPNcricinfo understands that the prospect of playing just a T20I series at the moment is off the table. The BCB had earlier proposed to tour for the T20Is first, and decide on the Tests based on players’ feedback about security and…
12:58 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Eoin Morgan, England’s white-ball captain, will take charge of Middlesex’s T20 Blast campaign next season, after stepping up to the role vacated by Dawid Malan’s move to Yorkshire. Morgan, who led England to World Cup glory in last summer’s final against New Zealand at Lord’s, will take the reins of a side that showed signs of improvement in 2019, in reaching the quarter-finals for only…
© AFP Widespread opposition to four-day Tests among the current generation of international cricketers has little chance of abating unless the ICC and member boards provide far greater details as to how the move would fit within future plans for the global game. England’s vice-captain Ben Stokes, India’s captain Virat Kohli and Australia’s captain Tim Paine have been the loudest voices in opposition to a prospective move to four-day matches…
© Getty Images Melbourne Stars 4 for 148 (Maxwell 59*, Stoinis 50) beat Sydney Thunder 5 for 145 (Gilkes 41, Haris 3-23) by six wickets Haris Rauf plucked a hat-trick and Glenn Maxwell smashed it with the bat for Melbourne Stars to regain their place at the top of the Big Bash League table. Sydney Thunder were beaten by six wickets at the MCG, on a day they learned of…
10:46 AM GMT Deivarayan Muthu Sri Lanka allrounder Isuru Udana has been sidelined from the team’s must-win third T20I against India in Pune on Friday with a back injury. The 31-year had injured himself during India’s chase in the second T20I on Tuesday night, while attempting to stop the ball at short third man. Udana immediately hobbled off the field and did not return to take the ball. Udana’s injury…
Stuart Meaker played for England Lions as recently as the 2016-17 winter © Getty Images Stuart Meaker, the fast bowler who played four white-ball internationals for England in 2011 and 2012, has become the latest in a line of seamers to sign for Sussex in an attempt to get their career back on track. Meaker, 30, had a year left on his contract at Surrey, but director of cricket Alec…
9:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Rashid Khan and Haris Rauf turned it on in the new year playing for Adelaide Strikers and Melbourne Stars. First, the Afghanistan legspinner nearly turned the game, turning a simple Sydney Sixers chase into a very nervy finish Rashid Khan’s got a hat-trick on Josh Hazlewood’s birthday! #BBL09 pic.twitter.com/4alJfpWzCY — KFC Big Bash League (@BBL) January 8, 2020 10.5 Rashid Khan to Vince, OUT, that’s…