Month: July 2020

3:43 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Moeen Ali has been named as Eoin Morgan’s vice-captain for England three-match ODI against Ireland. Moeen, recently named as captain of Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred, is the second most experienced ODI player in the squad having played 102 such games. He has also previously captained England U19s and, when available between England commitments, Worcestershire in T20 cricket, whom he led to the Vitality Blast…

2:37 PM IST Jofra Archer has been cleared to re-join the England squad ahead of the third Test after a second negative test for Covid-19. Archer was obliged to isolate for five days after it emerged he had made an unauthorised trip to his home in Brighton between the first and second Tests. As a consequence, he was dropped from the side for that second Test and in addition fined…

Cricket Australia faces questions from New South Wales and Queensland over the division of finances  12:05 PM IST Freed from uncertainty around the postponement of the Twenty20 World Cup, Cricket Australia’s interim chief executive Nick Hockley is confident of resolving the financial impasse with the governing body’s state association owners that ultimately played a large part in costing predecessor Kevin Roberts his job. While the dissenting associations of New South…

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) 10:48 AM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 West Indies coach Phil Simmons has admitted that he is “concerned” by the form of John Campbell and Shai Hope, and…

Hazlewood ready for quick switch between IPL and home summer (1:03) The seamer talks about the potential turnaround between playing IPL and red-ball cricket later this year (1:03) 10:01 AM IST India’s touring party and Australia’s returning players from the prospective IPL will almost certainly be required to face two weeks of quarantine – most likely in Adelaide – once they touch down for the home summer, but Cricket Australia’s…

ICC CEO Manu Sawhney and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the launch of the Women’s ODI World Cup  8:34 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff A decision on whether next year’s women’s ODI World Cup takes place in New Zealand is set to be made in the coming fortnight following the ICC’s confirmation that the men’s T20 World Cup scheduled for October in Australia has been postponed. The ICC statement…

3:32 AM IST It was telling that Ben Stokes was the first to reach the pitch on the fifth morning. The West Indies team were still in a huddle near the edge of the boundary. Joe Root, his partner, was struggling to keep up. Even the umpires were a few steps behind. But Stokes meant business. And whether he wanted to send a message to his opponents or simply couldn’t…

1:33 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Pakistan captain Azhar Ali scored a century that guided his Team Green to a six-wicket victory in the first intra-squad match at the Incora County Ground in Derby. Azhar anchored a fourth-day run chase with a composed 120 from 225 balls after Team White, led by Babar Azam, had set a target of 353 in 89 overs. Fakhar Zaman provided the initial thrust by…