Month: May 2020

10:05 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Danyal Rasool Multan Sultans co-owner Ali Khan Tareen and Kolkata Knight Riders CEO Venky Mysore have registered their interest in investing in teams in the Hundred, the ECB’s 100-ball competition which is due to start next summer after its recent postponement. The ECB initially rejected the involvement of private investment when devising…

7:53 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff England’s Physical Disability cricket squad is aiming to complete a marathon a day to help raise funds for the Lord’s Taverners. The squad, which finished as runners-up in the Physical Disability World Series last summer, has pledged to complete 26 miles of running every day for at least ten days, as part of the #TwoPointSixChallenge fundraising drive. Twelve members of the side are sharing their…

6:41 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff St Kitts & Nevis Patriots have revamped their set-up, letting go of Carlos Brathwaite and Robin Singh who were in charge of the team last season. Instead, they’ve handed over the captaincy to the 39-year old Rayad Emrit and recruited Simon Helmot as the head coach for CPL 2020. West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman Denesh Ramdin, who had helped Trinbago Knight Riders to back-to-back title victories in…

5:59 PM IST Last week the ECB opted to postpone the launch of its new competition, the Hundred, until 2021. With cricket in England and Wales facing significant financial disruption due to the coronavirus, ECB chief executive Tom Harrison has claimed that the case for the Hundred is stronger than before – but questions remain about its true cost to the game. Harrison has said the ECB stood to make…

2:52 PM IST Cricket Australia’s financial warnings have been questioned by the players’ association which has said the game’s position remains positive with the sport not yet feeling the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic suffered by the winter codes. The Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA), led by chairman Shane Watson, met on Monday and will now write to CA chairman Earl Eddings to express their view on the game’s situation. Last…

2:26 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Kumar Sangakkara will be invited to serve a second term as MCC president, in light of the current postponement of the club’s activities. Sangakkara, the first overseas president of MCC, took office on October 1 last year, and recently participated in a successful club tour of Pakistan, his first return to the country since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in March…

9:00 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Tasmania has become the latest organisation to announce significant job losses in the wake of budget cuts stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. Twenty roles have been lost and while some come from positions that were vacant there have also been redundancies. The states are expected to take a 25% hit to their grants from Cricket Australia as the governing body looks to slash costs…

Semi-final heartbreak fueling Australia’s World Cup drive (0:54) Rachael Haynes says 2017 semi-final heartbreak remains on the team’s mind as they look to next year’s one-day World Cup (0:54) 8:45 AM IST Australia Women’s vice-captain Rachael Haynes is willing to take on any role asked of her at next year’s ODI World Cup even it means giving up the opening position where she made her maiden century at the start…

May 5, 2020 The third edition of the Mzansi Super League, South Africa’s premier T20 domestic competition, will feature eight teams and be screened on pay television, marking a significant shift from the first two seasons. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the six existing franchises will be joined by teams based in Bloemfontein and East London and that Cricket South Africa (CSA) is in negotiations with SuperSport to air the tournament,…

6:19 PM IST The world champions are taking an early flight home from Nairobi. Australia had beaten India in seven straight ODIs prior to this to be the outright favourites coming into the first quarter-final of the ICC Knockouts, but a young Indian team looking to emerge from the shadows of the match-fixing scandal made quite a statement. That it was an 18-year old Yuvraj Singh, with his gum-chewing nonchalance…