Month: July 2020

5:57 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 With England having to maintain separate Test and white-ball squads this summer, there were chances for a number of fringe players to win selection to face Ireland later this week. Here we size up the players who caught the selectors’ attention and those still outside looking in. Winners Joe Denly While it’s…

4:34 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Reece Topley could win his first cap in more than four years after being recalled to England’s ODI squad to face Ireland this week. In the absence of a number of first-choice white-ball players, Sam Billings, Liam Dawson and David Willey have also returned to contention for the three-match series. The uncapped trio of Richard Gleeson, Lewis Gregory and Liam Livingstone will stay with the…

4:10 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) is waiting for the formal nod from the Indian government to “ink the final deal” with the BCCI, after receiving an official letter of intent from the Indian board for hosting the 2020 edition of the IPL. “Should get it [the permission],” as the IPL Governing Council chairman Brijesh Patel also told ESPNcricinfo recently, the two boards have “fully mobilised…

The ICC had used the technology to monitor front-foot no-balls solely with the third umpire during the Women’s T20 World Cup earlier this year in Australia  3:09 PM IST Front-foot no-balls will be monitored exclusively by the third umpire during the inaugural ICC World Cup Super League, which gets underway later this week with the three-match ODI series between England and Ireland. The ICC had previously used the technology to…

2:32 PM IST A friend of mine once asked me for some very earnest and sombre advice. He’d been invited to Lord’s for his first ever day at the cricket, and needed a crash-course in Test match etiquette, or most specifically, how to watch it. My answer? “Don’t.” As in, don’t exhaust your eyeballs by trying to focus on a tiny red orb for seven hours a day. Just let…

1:34 PM IST Sreshth Shah Thirteen teams, 200-plus matches, one champion. The Men’s ODI World Cup ODI Super League has been a long time coming – workshops, meetings and delays enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic included – but with the ICC announcing that the inaugural edition of the tournament gets underway when England take on Ireland for three ODIs starting July 30, the pathway to the 2023 50-over World Cup…

12:07 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff It has been delayed by a couple of months, but the inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup Super League will finally get going on July 30 when England and Ireland face off in the first of three ODIs in Southampton. Featuring 13 teams – the top 12 and Netherlands, who qualified by winning the ICC World Cricket Super League 2015-17 – the league will see each…

Cricket Australia faces questions from New South Wales and Queensland over the division of finances  10:48 AM IST A dispute between Cricket Australia and its state association owners over annual grants worth more than A$127 million (approx US$90.6 million) will be a priority item on the desk of the governing body’s new chief financial officer, Samantha Douglas, when she begins the job next week. In replacing the former CFO Todd…

2:05 AM IST ECB Reporters Network England Lions 297 for 3 (Salt 100, Vince 66, Billings 54*) beat Ireland 296 (Balbirnie 60, Tector 55, Stirling 53, Helm 3-49) by seven wickets Phil Salt boosted his hopes of a call-up ahead of the Royal London Series against Ireland after putting the same opponents to the sword with a 58-ball hundred in England Lions’ seven-wicket win at the Ageas Bowl. Ahead of…