Month: July 2020

7:51 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff England have released five players from the bio-secure bubble at Emirates Old Trafford. Joe Denly will move over to the white-ball training group down at the Ageas Bowl ahead of the Ireland series, while Dan Lawrence, Craig Overton, Ollie Robinson and Olly Stone have returned to their counties. England’s three-Test series against West Indies had featured an enlarged squad, with a number of players retained…

5:30 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ness Wadia, one of the co-owners of Kings XI Punjab, wants daily covid testing for players and support staff in the UAE, where IPL 2020 will be played between September 19 and November 10. “I would want as much testing as possible and preferably daily,” Wadia told Press Trust of India. “If I was a cricketer, I would be very happy in getting myself tested…

5:14 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has credited Sachin Tendulkar‘s technical inputs, including the importance of “the forward press against fast bowlers,” to help him regain his touch after a dismal England tour in 2014. Despite managing only 134 runs in 10 innings on that tour, Kohli said it was actually the “milestone” series in his career. In a recent Instagram chat with Kevin Pietersen, Kohli had called the…

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12:30 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Amir has departed for England to join Pakistan’s advance training group in Derbyshire, having tested negative for Covid-19 for the second time. He is however expected to remain in self-isolation for five days straight after landing and will only be released after he returns with two more negative tests. Amir made himself available for the tour after having initially pulled out as the dates…

Ryan ten Doeschate lifts the County Championship Division One Trophy as Essex celebrate  Jul 23, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff Surrey will take on Middlesex at the Kia Oval, while last season’s County Champions Essex face Kent at Chelmsford, in the first round of matches in the newly inaugurated Bob Willis Trophy, which gets underway on August 1 after a four-month delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The ECB’s truncated domestic calendar,…

12:09 PM IST The 2020 Indian Premier League (IPL) will most likely start on September 19 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the final slated on November 8. While the IPL Governing Council will meet next week to chalk out the final details and approve the schedule, it is understood that the BCCI has informally intimated the franchises about the plan. “IPL, in all likelihood, will start on September…

Shakib Al Hasan is serving a ban for failing to report Deepak Agarwal’s approaches  8:10 AM IST Shakib Al Hasan has admitted to having “made mistakes” that led to his ongoing ban from international cricket. In an interview on ESPNcricinfo’s Cricketbaazi series, hosted by Deep Dasgupta, Shakib said he wanted to serve as a cautionary tale for other players. Last October, Shakib accepted three charges of breaching the ICC anti-corruption…

2:29 AM IST The friendship and rivalry of Viv Richards and Ian Botham will be commemorated in a new series trophy when England next face West Indies in Test cricket, after the ECB and CWI agreed that the Wisden Trophy will be retired at the end of this week’s third Test. The new Richards-Botham Trophy will pay tribute to two greats of the game “whose rivalry and friendship embodies the…