Month: August 2020

Shakib Al Hasan is serving a ban for failing to report Deepak Agarwal’s approaches  9:06 PM IST Shakib Al Hasan‘s return to international cricket is slowly starting to take shape with his mentor Nazmul Abedeen telling ESPNcricinfo that the Bangladesh allrounder is preparing to undergo a full-fledged training camp at his alma mater, the BKSP facility in Savar. Currently under a one-year suspension by the ICC for failing to report…

7:34 PM IST India is set to retain the hosting rights for the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup while Australia have been asked to host the 2022 edition. In another significant decision the ICC also postponed the 2021 women’s ODI World Cup, scheduled in New Zealand between February 6 and March 7, to 2022. All these decisions were taken by the International Business Corporation, the business development wing of the…

5:35 PM IST The BCCI have confirmed that England’s white-ball tour of India has been postponed until early 2021. England were due to arrive in India at the end of September for a tour involving three ODIs and three T20s. But with the IPL having been rescheduled to cover the same period, the tour has been put back a few months. It is now anticipated that the white-ball games will…

5:12 PM IST Cricket South Africa (CSA) has named international player Vaughn van Jaarsveld and domestic veteran Craig Alexander as whistle-blowers in the 2015-16 domestic T20 match-fixing saga, which saw seven players, including four former internationals, banned for between two and 20 years. Alviro Petersen, Gulam Bodi, Thami Tsolekile, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Ethy Mbhalati, Jean Symes and Pumelela Matshikwe were banned for breaches of CSA’s anti-corruption code following an 18-month investigation….

3:17 PM IST The Indian government is set to give the BCCI permission to move the 2020 IPL to the UAE. ESPNcricinfo understands that different wings of the government, including Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs, have given the nod for the tournament to be shifted outside India as the country is coping with a high surge of Covid-19 cases that have crossed the 2-million mark. Although…

The tour will be Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s first international series since the world went into pandemic-induced hiatus  2:58 PM IST The original Bangladesh tour of Sri Lanka, comprising three Tests, could now become a combination of Tests and an additional three T20Is, possibly beginning in mid-October, pending the necessary approvals from the Sri Lankan government and health ministry. While the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) wants three Tests and as…

Masood is ‘annoying to bowl at’ – Archer (0:41) Jofra Archer is glad that friend Shan Masood has improved but hopes he has worse luck in the second innings. (0:41) 1:57 AM IST Danyal Rasool For all the headline-grabbing brilliance of Mohammad Abbas and Shaheen Afridi, or the feats of resilience from Shan Masood, there’s a good chance Pakistan wouldn’t have walked away from today’s play with quite as chipper…

Did England under-use Jofra Archer on the second day? (1:17) Osman Samiuddin felt Joe Root could have used more of Jofra Archer on day two at Old Trafford. (1:17) 1:36 AM IST Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah might beg to differ after their thrilling displays of unfettered fast bowling, but Jofra Archer believes that this Emirates Old Trafford is “not one to bend your back on” as Pakistan claimed the…

12:49 AM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 The ECB hopes to announce fixtures for South Africa Women’s revised tour of England in the coming weeks, pending approval from both governments. England were initially due to play four ODIs and two T20Is against South Africa in September, but with India pulling out of their scheduled tour due to the worsening…