11:34 AM IST Batsman Haider Ali, one of the star performers at the 2020 edition of the Under-19 World Cup, has earned a maiden national call-up, and Sohail Khan, the 36-year-old quick, was recalled after last playing internationally in 2017, as Pakistan named a 29-member squad for the Tests as well as T20Is in England. Pakistan’s tour will feature three Tests in August followed by a series of three T20Is,…
© AFP The BCCI is looking at the September-October window for holding the delayed 2020 edition of the IPL, Brijesh Patel, the chairman of the league’s governing council, has said. Whether the tournament can be slotted in there, however, “depends on the future” of the Asia Cup and the T20 World Cup, which were originally scheduled for September and October-November respectively. While there is considerable doubt over the two multi-team…
June 12, 2020 Andrew Fidel Fernando and Umar Farooq © Getty Images If the men’s Asia Cup goes ahead this year, it will likely take place in Sri Lanka. The hope is that the tournament will be played in September. Although it is technically Pakistan’s turn to host the Asia Cup this year, the PCB offered SLC to swap hosting years at an Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meeting earlier this…
10:57 PM IST The prospect of a domestic first-class competition in 2020 would appear to have diminished due to logistical concerns over hotels. While a regionally split first-class competition remains the favoured option of the Professional Game Group (PGG), an on-line meeting of the chief executives of the first-class counties on Thursday aired some continuing unease over the prospect of a return to action in August. In particular, the counties…
10:31 PM IST James Anderson believes the game must be “more active” to combat discrimination and that current levels of inclusion from players of Afro-Caribbean heritage are “just not okay”. Anderson, the leading wicket-taker among seam bowlers in Test history, said that recent events – notably the death of George Floyd and the global reaction it has sparked – had caused him to reflect on his own experiences and question…
9:14 PM IST Danyal Rasool Fast bowler Mohammad Amir and batsman Haris Sohail have withdrawn from Pakistan’s squad for the upcoming England tour. Amir, who had retired from Test cricket last year, and was thus only eligible for selection for the three-match T20I series, pulled out so that he could be present for the birth of his second child in August. It is understood that Sohail withdrew due to personal…
8:01 PM IST Mushtaq Ahmed said it would require clear communication and tactful management to ensure Pakistan’s high-profile coaching team worked smoothly with the players on the team’s upcoming tour of England. The former Pakistan legspinner has been brought in as spin bowling coach, one of two big-name appointments for the England tour, the other being Younis Khan as batting coach. This is the first time since Bob Woolmer’s appointment…
While both the men’s and women’s teams exceeded their target for black Africans, they fell short for generic black players by 2% 6:38 PM IST Cricket South Africa has exceeded its annual transformation target for the 2018-19 season though both the men’s and women’s national teams fell slightly short of their self-assigned percentages for generic black representation. This data was published in the latest Eminent Persons Group (EPG) report, which…
Fans will have to wait further to catch Lasith Malinga and Jasprit Bumrah in action once again 6:03 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff India will not tour Sri Lanka for the scheduled three ODIs and as many T20Is in June, as Sri Lanka Cricket had hoped, but the boards are still working towards playing that series in August. This is according to an SLC official, who confirmed that although the BCCI…
4:52 PM IST The BCCI is open to hosting the IPL in “empty stadiums” as long as the tournament is conducted in 2020. In a letter sent to the state associations on Wednesday, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said the board remained “optimistic” about the IPL which was postponed indefinitely in April in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. “The BCCI is working on all possible options to ensure that we…