Month: May 2020

Here’s who Yuvraj Singh thinks will break his fastest fifty record (2:38) The former India allrounder chats with Nikhil Naz on KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya’s potential (2:38) 7:47 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Yuvraj Singh believes Hardik Pandya has the potential to become a “massive asset” for India by the 2023 World Cup, subject to the latter working on his temperament. Yuvraj said Hardik was a “phenomenal” talent and only…

4:12 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB has launched an app that it hopes can act as a digital solution to keep children active while the UK is in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Junior programmes All Stars (for children aged 5-8) and Dynamos (8-11) have been paused during the lockdown, but the free Dynamos app – which features skill games that can be done at home without the…

3:17 PM IST Pakistan’s pace-bowling trio of Hasan Ali, Wahab Riaz and Mohammad Amir have lost their central contracts while former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed has been demoted from category A to B by the PCB. Shaheen Afridi and Azhar Ali were promoted from category B to A, joining Babar Azam in the top category for PKR 1.1 million (USD 6200 approx.). The PCB also introduced a new ‘Emerging’ category for…

3:06 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 England will consider handing international opportunities to fringe players and testing their fast-bowling depth to help them cope with a demanding revised summer schedule of behind-closed-doors cricket. The ECB have made extensive contingency plans in the hope of salvaging a home international season when it becomes safe to do so, with the…

Play 01:50 Zampa: Spin is being taken out of the game Adam Zampa believes that Australia holding the No.1-ranking in T20Is for the first time is the reward for giving the format the attention it needs. Although Australia’s climb to the top was in part due to the ICC’s annual update of their rankings – which also saw them top the Test ladder – it has come on the back…

7:37 PM IST Chris Gayle‘s disparaging remarks against his former franchise Jamaica Tallawahs in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is likely to earn him some sort of sanction. Such a sanction, Cricket West Indies president Ricky Skerritt hinted, would be in order because Gayle probably brought “disrepute” to the league, which a contracted player cannot do. Although the Tallawahs management released a statement that denied calling Gayle’s release as purely…

3:27 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer has suggested that crowd noises should be played over the public address system if England play international cricket behind closed doors this summer to compensate for the lack of spectators. England hope to return to some form of training before the end of the month, ahead of a potential start date of July 8 for a three-match Test series against West Indies. There…

2:57 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Everyone working in cricket is “in the firing line” as the English game comes to terms with the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting financial fallout, according to Warwickshire’s sport director, Paul Farbrace. No professional cricket will be played in the UK until July 1 at the earliest as things…

Sri Lanka were supposed to host the Women’s World Cup Qualifier from July 3 to July 19  12:51 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC has postponed the Women’s World Cup Qualifier 2021 and the Under-19 World Cup Qualifier 2022 Europe Division 2 in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, saying in a media statement on Tuesday that “consultation with Members and with the relevant government and public health authorities” had helped…