Sam Curran helps launch fundraiser for NHS staff (1:59) Sam Curran speaks about working with the charity Heroes – Help Them Help Us and his relationship with Mark Church. (1:59) 7:35 PM GMT England allrounder Sam Curran had been expecting to spend April 2 preparing for Chennai Super Kings’ first home game of the 2020 IPL. Instead, like cricketers around the world, he is currently trying to keep his fitness…
6:05 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff 134 runs in five Tests. Stats that make Indian captain Virat Kohli cringe each time he thinks of the 2014 Test series in England. On Thursday, in an Instagram chat with former England captain Kevin Pietersen, Kohli said that tour was the lowest point in his career and it had come about because he was “too focused” on “doing well from a personal point” instead…
3:08 PM GMT India 277 for 4 (Gambhir 97, Dhoni 91*) beat Sri Lanka 274 for 6 (Jayawardene 103*, Sangakkara 48) by six wickets Twenty-eight years on from the match that transformed the history of world cricket, India recaptured the crown that Kapil Dev and his men first lifted at Lord’s in 1983, and this time they did so in their very own back yard. An iron-willed 97 from Gautam…
Artist’s impression of the new Compton and Edrich Stands at Lord’s, after planning permission was secured 1:46 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Construction work on the new Compton and Edrich stands at Lord’s is to continue, despite the UK’s ongoing lockdown in response to the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak. The MCC has extended its closure of the ground until the end of May, as well as cancelling a planned AGM. Chief…
8:25 AM GMT The ECB has urged county boards to waive affiliation fees for clubs up and down the land. Despite the ECB announcing that no cricket – recreational or professional – will be played until the end of May at the earliest, several clubs reported attempts to chase up payments of the fees in recent days. The fees are required from all clubs affiliated to the ECB and historically…
6:27 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Daniel Flynn, the former New Zealand and Northern Districts left-hand batsman, has called time on his 16-year-long career, at age 34. In an international career spanning a little over five years, Flynn played 24 Tests, 20 ODIs, and five T20Is, making a combined 1325 runs, including six half-centuries. He batted almost three hours in the second innings of his debut Test at Lord’s, his 118-ball…
Frank Duckworth (left) and Tony Lewis, the inventors of the Duckworth-Lewis method 10:54 PM GMT Tony Lewis, the former university lecturer whose name will forever be synonymous with cricket’s convoluted Duckworth-Lewis rain rules, has died at the age of 78. An unlikely star of world cricket, Lewis was propelled to fame in 1999 when his complex formula, devised in conjunction with his fellow mathematician Frank Duckworth, was officially adopted by…
Dobell expects England pay cut despite PCA hesitance (1:51) George Dobell explains why the ECB-PCA stand-off isn’t as simple as England players refusing a pay cut (1:51) 4:59 PM GMT Eoin Morgan has insisted England players are “open to helping in whatever way possible” as the game struggles to come to terms with the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Morgan, the captain of England’s limited-overs teams, said he was…
12:20 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq has called for a “fair and equal” resolution to the World Test Championship when cricket finally resumes even if it means extending the tournament, warning a shortened competition would fail to give a “true picture” of the standings. With cricket, like nearly all major sports and activities, forced to a grinding halt because of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the key…
11:19 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Tom Harrison, the ECB’s chief executive, has estimated that an entire season without cricket will cost the game in England and Wales “well in excess of £300 million”. In a letter to PCA chief executive Tony Irish, seen by ESPNcricinfo, Harrison admitted that the ECB is “having to reset our future plans across the whole game in order to ensure its long-term survival” in the…