Month: March 2020

Lauren Griffiths and Ryan ten Doeschate with the Women’s One Day Cup and County Championship trophies  7:56 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Essex and Kent joined the Lord’s Taverners at the House of Lord’s on Tuesday to be formally presented with the County Championship and the Women’s One-Day Cup respectively after their successes in the 2019 season. Essex claimed the County Championship, their second title in three years, after a tense…

6:32 PM GMT Former India players L Sivaramakrishnan, Venkatesh Prasad, Sunil Joshi and Rajesh Chauhan have been shortlisted by the BCCI’s cricket advisory committee (CAC) to fill the two vacant positions on the men’s national selection committee. The five candidates were chosen out of a pool of 40 applications forwarded by the BCCI to the CAC. They will face the CAC for in-person interviews at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai…

5:27 PM GMT Much of the surprise around the Sylhet International Stadium upon seeing Donald Tiripano hammer five sixes and two fours was also felt in the Zimbabwe dressing room. Tiripano always had a reputation for being an able batsman down the order, but even Sean Williams, the stand-in captain for the day, did not think he had this kind of a big-hitting streak in him. After slumping to 225…

Lasith Malinga is still a force to be reckoned with in short-form cricket at 36  4:23 PM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka have lost each of their five most-recent T20Is, but the team’s improved fitness standards, and its batting confidence – both of which were on display in the ODI whitewash of West Indies – should have a knock-on effect. This is what captain Lasith Malinga hopes anyway, as…

4:11 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand have welcomed the pace attack that took them to within a hair’s breadth of a maiden World Cup triumph back into their ODI squad. After beating India 3-0 at home, New Zealand travel to Australia this month, where they have never won an ODI series before. And having missed that convincing series win, Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson and Matt Henry have all been…

Keaton Jennings has scored two Test hundreds, in Mumbai in 2016 and in Galle in 2018  3:06 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Keaton Jennings has insisted that he has plenty to offer England after his recall to their squad for the Test tour to Sri Lanka, regardless of whether he can break into the side. Jennings, picked as the back-up top-order batsman in the absence of the injured Rory Burns, won…

2:26 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Last summer’s World Cup generated almost £350 million (US$448 million) for the UK economy, according to the findings of an economic impact and benefits analysis commissioned by the ICC. The 2019 tournament, which culminated in an extraordinary tied final between England, the eventual champions, and New Zealand, was the most-watched edition of the tournament ever, with a cumulative global average audience of 1.6 billion viewers….

1:48 PM GMT Toss Quetta Gladiators chose to bowl v Lahore Qalandars Quetta Gladiators won the toss and put Lahore Qalandars in to bat. Sarfaraz Ahmed’s team was looking to come back from a lopsided defeat against Multan Sultans on the weekend, and the captain admitted back-to-back matches and travelling had taken their toll on the side. They make one change to the side, with Fawad Ahmed coming in to…