Month: July 2020

5:39 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Australia women’s captain Meg Lanning will return to the Melbourne Stars for the next WBBL season following three years with the Perth Scorchers. The move had been expected for some time but the contracting embargo for the tournament was only lifted last Friday due the disrupted off-season with Covid-19. Lanning previously played for the Stars in the first two editions of the WBBL where she…

12:10 AM IST Team Moeen 325 for 9 (Bairstow 127, Moeen 85, Rashid 4-65) beat Team Morgan 225 (Duckett 68, Moeen 3-40) by 100 runs Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali starred as England’s two World Cup winners outshone the rookies in the first intra-squad match at the Ageas Bowl ahead of the one-day international series against Ireland. The pair may have been overlooked from the Test set-up but they proved…

11:55 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Middlesex have named Stephen Eskinazi as their captain for this summer’s Bob Willis Trophy, after confirming that Peter Handscomb, the Australia batsman who was set to lead them this summer, will defer his two-year contract until 2021-22. Eskinazi, 26, will take charge of Middlesex’s red-ball team in the competition that has replaced the County Championship this summer due to the impact of Covid-19. England seamer…

10:45 PM IST With less than a week left before BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is set to enter the three-year cooling off period, the Supreme Court has listed the board’s long-pending case for a hearing on Wednesday. The court is meant to hear BCCI’s plea, which it has filed twice since last December, proposing several amendments to the board’s constitution which, if adopted, could undo some of the most significant…

Senior BCCI official Mayank Parikh has a decision to make after being found to be in conflict of interest by the board’s ethics officer Justice (retd) DK Jain  10:42 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff A senior official in BCCI operations, Mayank Parikh, has been asked to either resign from his position in the board or to “wind up” his six cricket clubs in Mumbai by BCCI’s ethics officer-cum-ombudsman Justice (retd) DK…

West Indies lost game during day-four Broad spell – Simmons (0:56) Phil Simmons feels West Indies played some good cricket, but never recovered from Stuart Broad’s fourth evening hot streak (0:56) 10:29 PM IST Chris Silverwood faces an intriguing test of his management style this week as England pick a side they hope can win the third Test against West Indies. In many ways Silverwood, the England coach, is in…

9:59 PM IST Pakistan bowling coach Waqar Younis believes Mohammad Amir‘s return to the team will spark competition amongst the bowlers and liven up intensity as they gear up for next month’s T20 series against England. He said Amir’s retirement from Test cricket “hurt at the time” but Pakistan had moved past it, and said his recall did not equate to the left-armer being indispensable for the team, insisting no…

8:20 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Durham have signed Sean Dickson from Kent on a two-year deal. Having turned down a contract extension offered by Kent, he will move initially on loan for the 2020 season, and be available to play for Durham in both red- and white-ball formats. Dickson, a South Africa-born opener who has an English passport, joined Kent in 2015 and was part of the team that won…

6:46 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Derbyshire’s Incora County Ground will be used as the bio-secure venue for England Women this summer. Although plans for England’s international schedule are yet to be finalised – they are expected to host South Africa after India pulled out of a proposed tri-series – all of the matches will be held at Derby. Heather Knight’s team will assemble at the ground for a training camp,…