Month: April 2020

11:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New father Eoin Morgan wants to do all he can to ensure cricket is played during the English summer, but concedes the scope of the coronavirus outbreak means the sport falls within a much bigger picture. Morgan, England’s limited-overs captain, said that given the gravity of the situation and ongoing uncertainty surrounding the impact of the pandemic, he saw “every option being viable during this…

8:40 AM GMT England’s centrally contracted players appear – at this stage – to have declined the offer to accept a temporary pay cut as part of the sport’s efforts to combat the challenges set by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, wrote to Tony Irish, his counterpart at the Professional Cricketers’ Association (the PCA; the players’ union who negotiate pay on behalf of centrally contracted players),…

3:18 AM GMT Australia Test captain Tim Paine believes the behavioural changes forced upon the national team by the Newlands scandal have flowed down into the rest of the system over the course of the past two years, with incidents involving James Pattinson and Marcus Stoinis last summer the exceptions that prove the new rule. Pattinson in the Sheffield Shield and Stoinis in the Big Bash League were both sanctioned…