4:05 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Zimbabwe’s five-match T20I series against Afghanistan, scheduled to be held in Harare later this month, has been called off in the wake of the latest spike in Covid-19 infections in the African nation, which has led to its government putting in place additional measures to check the spread of the virus. Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) had applied for a waiver to proceed with the series in…
Lanka de Silva takes over a Sri Lanka team that’s without recent retirees Shashikala Siriwardene and Sripali Weerakkody 3:06 PM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando Lanka de Silva, the former Sri Lankan Test wicketkeeper, has been made interim head coach of Sri Lanka women, replacing Harsha de Silva. He will be in charge until the end of the year while Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) searches for a long-term option. “Lanka de…
3:01 PM IST Cricket South Africa will consider reviewing aspects of the 2015-16 domestic T20 matchfixing scandal if evidence emerges that any of the seven players who admitted guilt were coerced or that the investigating process was compromised. CSA indicated its willingness to relook at the probe less than 24 hours after it defended the integrity of the investigation after one of the players, Thami Tsolekile, claimed there was racial…
Kolkata Knight Riders co-owners Juhi Chawla and Shah Rukh Khan watch from the stands 2:15 PM IST Shashank Kishore Nagraj Gollapudi Close News editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo Political tensions between India and China recently led to BCCI and Vivo pressing the pause button on the IPL title rights which the Chinese mobile handset manufacturer had bought for a record sum in 2017 for five years….
India are due to play Tests in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney from early December to early January 11:26 AM IST Cricket Australia (CA) is willing to wait until much later into the year to make a decision on whether the Boxing Day Test against India will be staged at the MCG, and are currently “full steam ahead” with plans for the game to be in its traditional Melbourne home….
Are England or Pakistan favourites ahead of crucial fourth day? (1:31) George Dobell feels the game is finely poised after the bowlers claw England back into contention. (1:31) 1:46 AM IST Danyal Rasool After squandering much of the advantage following five sessions of gritty batsmanship, breathtaking pace, sublime swing and tricky spin bowling, you could have excused Pakistan’s spin-bowling coach for being somewhat miffed at what transpired in the final…
Dobell: Stokes bowling ‘not a good reflection on Archer’ (1:46) George Dobell feels Jofra Archer is at a strange stage in his career and could have bowled better on the third day (1:46) 1:26 AM IST Chris Woakes says that England’s battling performance with the ball on the third afternoon at Old Trafford, capped by Ben Stokes‘ late breakthroughs, has instilled the side with belief that they can still turn…
12:52 AM IST Danyal Rasool Yasir Shah doesn’t do half-measures; anyone who watched him play in England in 2016 will know that. A match-winning ten-wicket haul at Lord’s was followed by arguably his worst career performance in Manchester, his match figures reading 66-6-263-1. If his numbers in the UAE, where he’s snared 113 wickets in a scarcely believable 17 Test matches, showcase the best of the legspinner, the other side…
12:29 AM IST Pakistan 326 and 137 for 8 (Yasir 12*, Abbas 0*) lead England 217 (Pope 62, Yasir 4-66) by 244 runs Yasir Shah collected four wickets as Pakistan secured a healthy first-innings lead but England’s five-pronged seam attack chipped away to keep them in contention during the opening match of what could turn out to be a classic three-Test series. Late on an intriguing third day, it felt…
ICC CEO Manu Sawhney and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the launch of the Women’s ODI World Cup 10:58 PM IST The disparity in the level of preparedness of the teams is understood to be the key reason behind the ICC postponing the women’s ODI World Cup from 2021 to 2022, with an eye on maintaining the “integrity of the tournament”. The ICC has retained the February-March window…