Month: January 2020

5:37 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Australia will consider sanctions on a number of players from the Under-19 squad after a post on Instagram by batsman Jake Fraser-McGurk invited comments that seemingly mocked non-native English speakers. The image Fraser-McGurk posted of himself batting and captioned “Quarter Finals here we come” shortly after Australia’s victory over England prompted a series of replies from team-mates, which have subsequently been removed and commenting…

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4:55 AM GMT Rumana Ahmed and Panna Ghosh have been included in the Bangladesh squad for the Women’s T20 World Cup, which begins on February 21 in Australia. The experienced duo replaces Rabeya Khan and Suraiya Azmin, who were part of the side for the India tour earlier this month. Rumana, the legspin-bowling allrounder, has recovered from a knee injury, which kept her out of action for several months last…

2:09 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The uncapped pace bowler Kyle Jamieson has been named in New Zealand’s ODI squad to face India alongside Scott Kuggeleijn and Hamish Bennett as injuries force a reshaping of the attack. Jamieson’s call-up was flagged when he was left out of the New Zealand A squad and follows his addition to the Test side in Australia late last year following the injury to Lockie Ferguson….

Fantasy Pick | Make Wade your captain (6:46) Here are our Fantasy Picks for the match between the Hobart Hurricanes and Sydney Thunder (6:46) 1:26 AM GMT Hemant Brar January 30: BBL Eliminator – Hobart Hurricanes v Sydney Thunder, Hobart Our XI: Matthew Wade, D’Arcy Short, Alex Hales, Usman Khawaja, Callum Ferguson, Ben McDermott, Alex Ross, Macalister Wright, Chris Morris, Daniel Sams, Scott Boland NOTE: We might not always be…

6:30 PM GMT Amid the drama of Mark Wood’s resurgence and the promise of Ollie Pope, Chris Woakes‘ contribution to England’s Test touring party could easily be overlooked. That’s often the way of things with Woakes. He is, without doubt, a fine cricketer but, in the age of James Anderson and Ben Stokes, he has never quite been England’s best swing bowler and never quite been England’s best allrounder. It…

2:29 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Munaf, the former Pakistan fast bowler, has died. He was 84 years old. Munaf played only four Tests for Pakistan, from the late 50s to the early 60s, but hovered around national team selection for a number of years. He toured, without playing a Test, with the Pakistan side on their famous first tour of the Caribbean in 1957-58, in which Gary Sobers made…

2:26 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand captain Kane Williamson kept his sense of humour after his side went down in yet another Super Over, but said that upon looking back, they should have closed the game out in their regular batting innings. New Zealand needed two off four balls in the last over with their most experienced batsmen in Williamson and Ross Taylor at the crease, before Mohammed Shami…

2:00 PM GMT Jofra Archer will miss England’s T20I series against South Africa as he continues to recover from an elbow problem, which could also threaten his participation in the Test tour of Sri Lanka in March. Lancashire quick Saqib Mahmood, who was already part of the ODI squad, will take Archer’s place for the T20Is. Archer had been suffering from soreness that reduced him to a role in only…