Month: July 2020

12:38 AM IST It wasn’t a first-class innings, and it barely even counts as an England representative game. And yet it was played in England colours, against a Test-class bowling attack, and in spite of the unavoidable lack of a crowd, it was televised to a global audience, albeit via the ECB’s own fixed-camera web-stream. Three and a half months after England’s cricketers left the field in Colombo as their…

12:31 AM IST Sir Everton Weekes, the last member of the legendary Three Ws, has died at the age of 95. Alongside Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Frank Worrell, Weekes formed a formidable batting unit in the West Indies team. All three were born within a couple of miles of one another – rumour has it they were delivered by the same midwife – within 18 months in Barbados between…

Behind the scenes in West Indies’ quarantine training camp (2:52) West Indies bowler Keon Harding takes us through a day in his life in the team’s biosecure bubble. (2:52) 12:25 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Brathwaite XI 112 for 7 trail Holder XI 272 (Da Silva 133*) by 160 runs Jason Holder took a wicket in his first over of the England tour while Shannon Gabriel also shone on the…

11:46 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Team Buttler 287 for 5 (Bracey 85, Lawrence 58) v Team Stokes Newcomers James Bracey and Dan Lawrence stole the spotlight as England’s leading red-ball players went head to head on day one of a rare intra-squad clash at the Ageas Bowl. When growing concerns over the spread of coronavirus brought an early end to England’s last official outing 111 days ago in Sri…

11:30 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Former New Zealand batsman Peter Fulton has stepped down as the national team’s batting coach in order to become the head coach of the Canterbury men’s team. Fulton, who had replaced Craig McMillan in the role, took up the job with New Zealand after the 2019 World Cup last year. His assignments with the team included a tour of Sri Lanka and Australia and a…

10:28 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Gareth Roderick, the Gloucestershire wicketkeeper/batsman, will join Worcestershire at the end of the 2020 season on a three-year-deal. Roderick, 28, has spent eight years as a Gloucestershire player, representing the club 168 times in all formats, and was part of the side that won the 2015 Royal London Cup. His place in the side came under pressure last year due to the emergence of James…

Kumar Sangakkara was Sri Lanka’s captain and Mahela Jayawardene was his vice-captain during the 2011 World Cup  7:23 PM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Aravinda de Silva and Upul Tharanga have all been summoned to appear before a special investigations unit set up by Sri Lanka’s Sports Ministry, over allegations of match-fixing in the 2011 World Cup final. The allegations were made by Mahindananda Aluthgamage, who was…

6:12 PM IST Imran Khwaja will be the interim chairman of ICC until the elections are held for the post. The decision was taken by the ICC Board on Wednesday after incumbent Shashank Manohar stepped down following two terms in the role. Khwaja, who is the head of the Singapore Cricket Association, was elected as ICC’s deputy chairman in 2017, a year after Manohar became the global cricket body’s inaugural…

Garth move could help fast track Irish cricket – Mott (1:16) The Australia head coach has had first-hand experience of the challenges facing cricket in Ireland. (1:16) 6:09 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Ireland (CI) have introduced a new category of contract for women’s players in the latest move towards a professional set-up. CI introduced professional contracts for the first time in 2019, with six players (Laura Delany, Kim Garth,…