Month: July 2020

6:41 PM IST The 2019-20 Dhaka Premier League, which couldn’t be completed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, might resume at two specific hubs, it emerged after an online meeting between the BCB and several Bangladeshi cricketers and the players’ association, but the high-risk situation in the country hasn’t yet allowed the authorities to provide a clear timeframe or roadmap for the return of domestic cricket. Despite that, Kazi Inam Ahmed,…

3:04 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Sourav Ganguly has worn many hats over the years, the latest being that of the president of the BCCI, but it’s Sourav Ganguly the India captain that people still remember with the most fondness. Chatting with Ganguly a couple of days before his 48th birthday, on the board’s official website, Mayank Agarwal got him to reminisce about his playing days, and also act as India’s…

11:50 PM IST English cricket could be witnessing a changing of the guard with Stuart Broad set to miss out on a place in the first Test against West Indies. Broad, a veteran of 138 Tests and taker of 485 Test wickets, has not missed a home Test since 2012, a run of 51 matches in succession. The last time he missed one – the Edgbaston Test against West Indies…

11:24 PM IST The ECB has announced a new range of measures designed to open cricket up to more diverse communities, after Tom Harrison, the chief executive, admitted that the Black Lives Matter movement had revealed some “uncomfortable truths” about the sport’s relevance to black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) players. Speaking on the eve of the first Test against West Indies at the Ageas Bowl, where the England team…

Maybe I don’t get as much credit as I probably deserve – Holder (0:56) Jason Holder on comparisons with Ben Stokes, opposite captain and fellow allrounder (0:56) 11:22 PM IST The end of lockdown – maybe the pause in lockdown will prove a more accurate phrase – has precipitated many long-awaited reunions. Friends, lovers, families have all been reunited. It’s hard to say where the resumption of cricket rates compared…

10:15 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s live updates on the 1st Test between England and West Indies at the Ageas Bowl. We’ve also got traditional ball-by-ball, too. If the blog doesn’t load for you straight away, please refresh your page. Source: ESPN Crickinfo

Maybe I don’t get as much credit as I probably deserve – Holder (0:56) Jason Holder on comparisons with Ben Stokes, opposite captain and fellow allrounder (0:56) 9:59 PM IST Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo Captains, allrounders, rivals. As England and West Indies prepare to go head-to-head in cricket’s comeback following its Covid-enforced hiatus, so too do Jason Holder and Ben Stokes. While Holder…

Hampshire, who are training at Arundel, have reservations about the safety of hotel stays  8:07 PM IST Counties may be offered an opt-out of this season’s first-class competition as part of plans to restart domestic cricket. While the first-class counties voted by a narrow margin to play first-class and T20 cricket in the abbreviated 2020 season, it is understood one or two retain strong reservations about hotel stays. Hampshire, in…

Play 01:07 ‘Do it your way’ – Joe Root’s advice to stand-in captain Stokes Big picture And so it re-begins. Test Cricket, the Awakening. Live from the locked-down environs of the Ageas Bowl, in a sterile world of fist-bump greetings and exam-room-style mealtimes. Where the players go through their daily routines with the detached immersion of astronauts in the International Space Station, and where Mark Wood belts out Jerusalem from…