Month: June 2020

7:30 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Nathan Coulter-Nile and AJ Tye have lost their state contracts with Western Australia while Cameron Gannon, the leading wicket-taker in the Sheffield Shield last season, has had his move confirmed. Gannon, who played T20I cricket for the USA last year having qualified through his mother’s side of the family, took 38 wickets at 20.92 for Queensland in the 2019-2020 campaign, which was truncated by a…

11:07 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Salary bands in the Hundred are set to be cut by up to 20% for men’s players when the competition launches in 2021. Players were due to earn between £30,000 and £125,000 in the competition this year before the Covid-19 pandemic forced its postponement. Details are still being ironed out, but the…

9:50 PM IST Danyal Rasool Haider Ali, Haris Rauf and Shadab Khan’s participation in Pakistan’s tour of England is in doubt after all three tested positive for Covid-19. The players had shown no symptoms until they were tested in Rawalpindi on Sunday ahead of the tour that is due to begin in August. All three were in line to play in the white-ball leg of the campaign. More to follow….

9:07 PM IST Shannon Gabriel looks set to be added to West Indies’ Test squad for the series against England. Gabriel, who was a key player in West Indies’ victory over England in the Caribbean, was only named as part of the reserve squad for the tour as he was seeking to prove his fitness following an ankle injury. But Phil Simmons, West Indies’ head coach, suggested Gabriel was now…

8:26 PM IST Phil Simmons has revealed he was the victim of racist abuse while playing league cricket in England and confirmed his West Indies squad will “definitely” register their “solidarity” with the Black Lives Matter movement when the Test series against England begins. As well as playing county cricket – he was a key member of the Leicestershire side which won the County Championship in 1996 – Simmons played…

Pakistan’s players and support staff will be tested for Covid-19 every five days on their England tour  8:02 PM IST Umar Farooq in Lahore Pakistan’s players and support staff will be subject to three rounds of Covid-19 testing apart from a host of other precautions before they leave for their England tour. Once in England, the entire touring party will be tested every five days. The PCB medical board admitted…

6:04 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The 2020 women’s T20 World Cup has officially become the most-watched women’s cricket event in history for that format. According to numbers released by the ICC on Monday, the tournament reached 89 million unique audience members globally, a 131% increase over the number for the 2018 edition, which was the first standalone women’s T20 World Cup, held in the West Indies. In Australia, the final…

England stars front ECB’s Together Through This Test cause (2:36) England’s players and fans come together to urge safety and patience as we await the return of cricket (2:36) 3:13 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff England and West Indies will pay tribute to Britain’s key workers during the forthcoming Test series, which has been named the #raisethebat Test series in recognition of the sacrifices made by doctors, teachers, carers and other…

1:34 PM IST Nick Hockley, Cricket Australia’s interim chief executive, flies down from Sydney to Melbourne on Monday night with an in-person meeting to unify his executive team as the first of numerous priorities in the wake of Kevin Roberts’ exit last week. A number of hurtful divisions have opened up in Australian cricket over recent weeks, none more so than the fact that the team pulled together by Roberts…