2:09 PM IST Both Cricket South Africa (CSA) and a leading epidemiologist are comfortable that Saturday’s 3TC match will proceed as safely as possible, despite it being played in Gauteng, which is currently seen as the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. The exhibition match, which will feature 24 players divided into three teams of eight who will all compete in the same fixture, will take place at…
2:09 PM IST Faf du Plessis, South Africa’s Test and T20 captain until February this year, has admitted to having ‘got it wrong before’ as he, alongside Dwaine Pretorius, Rassie van der Dussen, Anrich Nortje and Marizanne Kapp, became the first members of the white Afrikaans cricket community in South Africa to publicly voice their support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, joining Lungi Ngidi and 32 former players…
12:08 PM IST Australian cricket’s state associations have knocked back a revised offer for annual grants from Cricket Australia, sending the chairman Earl Eddings and interim chief executive Nick Hockley back to the drawing board in terms of their calculations. Hockley’s predecessor Kevin Roberts was forced to resign due to a range of disputes over the game’s finances amid the Covid-19 pandemic. While an interim arrangement has been reached with…
11:33 AM IST Press Trust of India Conducting a delayed season of the IPL, possibly in September-October, and other domestic tournaments, likely to be fewer than usual, will be topmost on the BCCI Apex Council’s agenda when the members meet via video conference on Friday to discuss the immediate future despite rising Covid-19 cases in the country. That aside, there will be discussions on the senior men’s team’s calendar, with…
1:36 AM IST Jofra Archer‘s decision to go home between Tests “could have been a disaster” which cost English cricket “tens of millions of pounds,” according to Ashley Giles. Archer was dropped from the England side for the second Test against West Indies after it emerged he had broken his journey between the Ageas Bowl and Emirates Old Trafford by making a brief but unauthorised visit to his home in…
Discipline, but why no wickets? © Getty Images August 31, 2019. Kemar Roach will remember that day, the last time he took a Test wicket. And what a wicket it was: he forced a nick off the outside edge of India captain Virat Kohli in Jamaica. In fact, Roach nearly took a hat-trick. Nearly 11 months and 77.2 overs later, Kohli remains the last Test wicket Roach has taken. The…
12:32 AM IST England 207 for 3 (Sibley 86*, Stokes 59*) v West Indies It was slow, steady and perfectly suited to England’s needs after a difficult start – on and off the field. Dom Sibley‘s 86 not out, amid an unbroken 126-run stand for the fourth wicket with Ben Stokes, rescued his side from 81 for 3 and put them in a far more comfortable position at the close…
© PCB Kashif Bhatti has been allowed to rejoin the Pakistan squad, after a scare over a positive Covid-19 Test in the UK had left him self-isolating from the rest of the squad as a precaution. The left-arm spinner had travelled to England with a delayed second batch of players who had initially tested positive in Pakistan, but had then returned two negatives on follow-up tests conducted by the PCB…
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12:47 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer has been left out of the England side for the second Test against West Indies at Emirates Old Trafford following a breach of the team’s bio-security protocols. Archer was included in England’s 13-man squad on Wednesday, but the ECB released a statement at 8am on the morning of the Test saying that he had been “excluded” and would enter self-isolation. The statement said…