Month: July 2020

Justin Mohamed: ‘The important piece in having an Aboriginal person on the board, it is very clear they’re there for what they bring, who they are, their experience and expertise’  2:17 PM IST Australian cricket’s Indigenous leader, Justin Mohamed, believes that Cricket Australia’s work to improve Aboriginal involvement in the game will not have lasting effects until representation extends to the management office and the boardroom as well as on…

12:11 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowler Lockie Ferguson‘s Test aspirations are still as strong as ever after a calf strain cut short his performance in his only Test, against Australia in Perth last December. Ferguson said he had time to reflect on a lot of things about his “whirlwind” career during the recent lockdown, including what kind of a player he wants to be for New Zealand in all…

Sir Andrew Strauss and his sons ring the bell at Lord’s to mark Ruth Strauss Foundation Day  12:24 AM IST Sir Andrew Strauss, the former England captain, is confident that the cricket-loving public will get behind next week’s #RedForRuth day at Emirates Old Trafford and help raise awareness and funds for the Ruth Strauss Foundation, even though the Covid-19 pandemic means that no spectators will be present to emulate last…

11:58 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Anil Kumble, the former India captain, doesn’t regret walking away as the team’s head coach in 2017, but feels “the end could have been better”. He stepped down immediately after the Champions Trophy in June, where India finished runners-up to Pakistan, after his partnership with Virat captain Kohli became “untenable.” Ahead of that tournament, reports of Kohli telling BCCI about players being uncomfortable with Kumble’s…

WI bowling coach: ‘I’ll be there for Archer, he knows that’ (1:12) Roddy Estwick discusses the scrutiny on Archer after a tough week (1:12) 10:36 PM IST Roddy Estwick, the West Indies assistant coach who mentored Jofra Archer as a young cricketer in Barbados, has encouraged the player to “lay low, focus on the game and on people you can trust”, after hearing of the racial abuse he suffered on…

10:29 PM IST Ben Stokes has already surpassed the feats of Andrew Flintoff, and is well on his way to overtaking Sir Ian Botham as England’s greatest allrounder, according to James Anderson, who has reiterated his desire to carry on playing alongside his team-mate at least until the next Ashes tour of Australia in 2021-22. However, speaking in the build-up to the third Test at Emirates Old Trafford – a…

Eoin Morgan was among the marquee names originally due to play in the Euro T20 Slam  10:09 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 The Euro T20 Slam’s launch has been postponed by another year due to uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The league’s inaugural season was initially planned for 2019, but was cancelled at two weeks’ notice when…

9:19 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 When David Willey was told last year that he had been left out of England’s T20I series in New Zealand, he thought his international career was over. Willey had been a white-ball regular for England for the previous four years, but was dropped immediately before the World Cup after Jofra Archer’s impressive…

‘It’s a final for both England and West Indies’ – Estwick (1:23) Roddy Estwick explains why West Indies need no extra motivation ahead of the final Test against England. (1:23) 8:45 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 West Indies’ management will trust their frontline seamers to be honest about their ability to get through a third Test match against…