Month: July 2020

5:22 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Leicestershire’s players have been able to resume training at Grace Road despite a second lockdown in the city of Leicester. The club’s first-team players came off furlough on Wednesday to prepare for the return of county cricket next month amid Leicester’s period in lockdown being extended by at least two-weeks after a surge of Covid-19 cases in the area. The club confirmed that players were…

2:56 PM IST The president of the Barbados Cricket Association has called for the “immediate removal” of Phil Simmons as head coach of West Indies. Conde’ Riley, who is also on the board of directors of Cricket West Indies (CWI), has described Simmons’ decision to attend a family funeral as “inconsiderate and reckless” and claimed it has “endangered the lives” of the rest of the touring party. Simmons, who is…

2:57 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ian Bell has signed a one-year contract extension with Warwickshire to the end of the 2021 season, extending his association with the club’s senior ranks to 23 years. Former England batsman Bell, who turned 38 in April, is one of Warwickshire’s most successful players with 17,350 runs, including 38 centuries, across all formats. He is also the most capped England men’s cricketer to represent the…

Play 03:55 Cricket South Africa (CSA) has rescheduled the experimental 3TeamCricket (3TC) competition, which will flag off the resumption of cricket in the country, to July 18 – also celebrated as Nelson Mandela International Day. Three teams – led by Kagiso Rabada, Quinton de Kock and AB de Villiers – will all compete simultaneously in the same match for the Solidarity Cup at SuperSport Park in Centurion, with the game…