Joe Root leads his team off the field after the postponement of their Test series in Sri Lanka 10:44 PM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka, which was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, will be rescheduled to January 2021. That is what SLC CEO Ashley de Silva has suggested anyway, though the ECB appears not to have made any firm arrangements yet. SLC is currently attempting…
8:48 PM IST Pakistan 264 for 6 (Inzamam 60, Miandad 57*, Watson 2-39) beat New Zealand 262 for 7 (Crowe 91, Rutherford 50, Akram 2-40, Mushtaq 2-40) by four wickets They lost three of their first five matches, and should probably have lost a fourth too, when England bowled them out for 74. Rain saved them there, and gave them an underserved point, a point that was eventually critical to…
5:25 PM IST Tom Harrison has been called to appear in front of the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee of the House of Commons as part of an inquiry into the impact of Covid-19 on sport in the UK. Harrison, the ECB’s chief executive, will appear before Members of Parliament on Tuesday, May 5. The session will be conducted online and will also feature testimony from…
ECB chairman Colin Graves in conversation with Andrew Strauss, MD of English cricket, during the 2015 Ashes series © Getty Images Colin Graves will end his five-year tenure as ECB chairman on August 31, with Ian Watmore cleared to succeed him following a review into the circumstances of his departure from the Football League. The decision was confirmed by the ECB board in the wake of the decision to postpone…
3:26 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Surrey have cancelled D’Arcy Short and Shadab Khan‘s contracts for the T20 Blast season following the competition’s postponement. The ECB announced last week that no professional cricket would be played in England and Wales until July 1 at the earliest due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Blast likely to be pushed back to the final months of the season. Surrey said in a statement:…
Tait: Legalised tampering might be chance for cricket to move forward (1:42) Shaun Tait on the prospect of legalised ball-tampering in cricket (1:42) 2:16 PM IST Shining the ball with saliva or sweat will be restricted in Australia under a framework released by the federal government about the staged return of both professional and recreational sport amid the coronavirus pandemic. The guidelines, drawn up by the Australian Institute of Sport…
A view across the redeveloped Junction Oval in Melbourne © Getty Images Up to half of Cricket Victoria’s staff have been sacrificed, with community cricket particularly hard hit, in a restructuring of the state association that has been explained away as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic but has origins stretching back nearly a decade. Two weeks after Cricket Australia staff were informed that the vast majority would be stood…
12:01 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Australia are back as the No.1 Test team in the world and also sit top of the T20I table for the first time following the ICC’s annual update of their rankings while world champions England stay No. 1 in ODIs. India had held the Test top spot since October 2016 but the update of the system eliminates results from the 2016-17 season when they won…
Chris Gayle’s allegations against Ramnaresh Sarwan were dismissed by the latter 10:42 AM IST Calling the allegations levelled against him by Chris Gayle as “scandalous”, former West Indies batsman and Jamaica Tallawahs assistant coach Ramnaresh Sarwan has “categorically” denied he had any role to play in the former being released by the franchise for the 2020 season of the Caribbean Premier League.st “I categorically deny any involvement in the decision…