12:23 PM GMT The Bushfire Cricket Bash fund-raising match will not take place at the SCG on Saturday because of the forecast of heavy rain in Sydney, the plan being to ensure that the Big Bash final goes on as scheduled if there is a window to play. Torrential rain, which the region desperately needs, is forecast for Sydney from Friday right through the weekend with up to 50mm predicted…
10:53 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Darren Lehmann will undergo bypass surgery on Saturday after being taken ill on the Gold Coast on his 50th birthday. Lehmann, who was there to watch his son Jake play for the Cricket Australia XI against England Lions, suffered chest pains on Wednesday morning. On Wednesday evening he was resting in hospital ahead of his surgery in three days in Brisbane. “I would like to…
10:25 AM GMT Jon Culley Joe Clarke was used to being in the spotlight. Since his debut for Worcestershire at the age of 18 in 2015, his story had encompassed only success and the promise of more. This time it was different. This time the headlines were not about Joe Clarke the England batsman in waiting, as they had tended to be during his rapid rise as the golden boy…
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8:05 AM GMT Midway through last season’s Big Bash League, the Sydney Thunder were travelling nicely with Joe Root and Jos Buttler playing vital roles in the batting order as the club set themselves to challenge for the title. However, when England came calling, both had to take their leave, leaving Chris Jordan and Anton Devcich to try to cover in their contrasting roles. This time around, the Thunder were…
6:26 AM GMT Entering the semi-final, Divyaansh Saxena had an average World Cup. Barring an unbeaten 52 against New Zealand in a rain-hit game, he had got starts but failed to make them big. That’s not to say his innings haven’t been attractive. They’ve just been too short. But against Pakistan in the semi-final, Saxena showed the temperament to not throw his wicket till India hit the winning runs. His…
5:16 AM GMT The Adelaide Strikers have a fight on their hands to keep Peter Siddle on their contract list ahead of next summer’s 10th edition of the Big Bash League, with the Melbourne Renegades eager to bring him back to the club after he became one of the tournament’s savviest and best pace bowlers over three years in South Australia. Siddle is understood to have one more year remaining…
3:28 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England batsman Tom Banton has signed a new two-year deal with the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash after his successful debut season with the club hopeful he will be available throughout the 2020-21 campaign. Banton scored 223 runs in seven matches at a strike-rate of 176.98 – the highest in the tournament of anyone to have batted more than once – before being replaced…
3:13 AM GMT Sidharth Monga New Zealand head coach Gary Stead‘s one-week pre-planned holiday at a time when they look to back bounce back from a 5-0 drubbing in the T20Is has sparked outrage in New Zealand but the NZC CEO David White has defended the break citing workload issues. “Player and support staff’s work load is a big issue in international cricket,” White said. “We lost our last coach,…
8:00 AM GMT Toss New Zealand opt to bowl v India Stand-in captain Tom Latham won the toss in the series opener in Hamilton, and asked India to bat first. New Zealand’s first ODI since the heart-breaking World Cup final was a rematch of their semi-final against India, but the teams hardly bore the same look. The whole pace attack of New Zealand was out with injury as was regular…