12:48 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ramchand Goala, the former Bangladesh left-arm spinner, passed away in Mymensingh on Friday morning. He was 79. Goala played against the touring Sri Lankans and Bengal side in the 1980s. He even famously dismissed Arjuna Ranatunga, who went on to captain Sri Lanka. However, Goala is best remembered for representing Abahani for nearly 15 years. Goala was a giant in the Mymensingh cricket scene, playing…
Ellyse Perry has been recovering from hamstring surgery since the T20 World Cup 8:53 AM IST Ellyse Perry feels “very grateful” that the Australia Women’s team has avoided cuts to their backroom staff amid Cricket Australia’s redundancies while also stressing the importance of domestic competitions being retained in their current structures. CA announced 40 job losses earlier this week – of which men’s batting coach Graeme Hick was among them…
8:45 PM IST Shannon Gabriel believes that his controversial comments to Joe Root during the St Lucia Test in February 2019, were “blown way out of proportion” and says he will not hold back in the coming series, if given the opportunity to play. Gabriel was handed a four-match ban, and issued an “unreserved apology”, after the stump microphone at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium overheard Root rebuking him with…
7:52 PM IST 1225245 Having played grade cricket in Australia before making a splash in the Big Bash, Haris Rauf says he knows how to bowl spells longer than four overs Daniel Pockett / © Cricket Australia/Getty Images Having originally been content to make a name for himself in white-ball cricket, fast bowler Haris Rauf has expressed his desire to play Test cricket for Pakistan after finding himself in the 29-man…
Full-time county spin coaches would help English spinners – Parkinson (1:01) England legspinner Matt Parkinson would “love to have a permanent spin coach” to help develop his game. (1:01) 7:39 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Matt Parkinson has backed the introduction of full-time spin coaches in county cricket to help the development of young English spinners. Parkinson, the…
7:30 PM IST Danyal Rasool Pakistan may currently be coached by two of their most famous batsmen, but for inspiration, the newest member of their squad is looking slightly east. The Attock-born Haider Ali, who rose to national prominence after scoring a half-century for Pakistan in an otherwise painfully one-sided defeat to India in the Under-19 World Cup semi-final earlier this year, views India’s Rohit Sharma as his main inspiration….
Play 04:33 How Mohammed Shami became second-innings Shami Mohammed Shami thinks India’s current pace attack isn’t just the best the country has produced, but one of the best of all time, anywhere. “You and everyone else in the world will agree to this – that no team has ever had five fast bowlers together as a package,” Shami told the former India wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta on Cricketbaazi, a Hindi talk…
3:51 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff England women’s hopes of salvaging an international season in 2020 have been boosted by the confirmation that 24 players will return to training later this month across six venues. The ECB were forced to postpone the series against India, initially scheduled to start at the end of June, due to the Covid-19 outbreak, and have since been in talks with the BCCI and CSA about…
11:06 AM IST Australia’s scheduled series against Zimbabwe in the top end in August looks certain to be cancelled after the head coach Justin Langer indicated he was planning to have the team ready to play by September in anticipation of a possible white-ball tour of England. On the day after Cricket Australia announced redundancies for 40 staff – far less than originally intended – as part of a reshaping…
8:55 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand wicketkeeper Rachel Priest has announced her retirement from international cricket and has signed to play for Tasmania in Australia’s Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL). Priest was dropped from New Zealand’s central contracts list earlier this month having been part of the T20 World Cup squad. Overall she played 87 ODIs – including a top score of 157 against Sri Lanka in 2015 during…