12:21 PM GMT Annesha Ghosh The third edition of Women’s T20 Challenge is set to take place between November 4 and 9 in the UAE. The tournament, which the BCCI had said in August would be played during the IPL playoffs’ week, will feature a total of four matches played between three teams. ESPNcricinfo understands that both the Indian and overseas players will arrive in the UAE by the third…
12:14 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Having started the 2020 season with two wins, including a record-breaking highest successful IPL chase on Sunday courtesy Rahul Tewatia and Sanju Samson, they go in to Wednesday’s clash with a chance to emulate this. They played their opening two games in Sharjah, where they made scores of 216 and 226, and will now play on a bigger ground and on perhaps a more challenging…
11:31 AM GMT Shashank Kishore Fast bowlers need to show quick adaptability in the face of changing surfaces in the UAE as IPL 2020 progresses. This is what Shane Bond, the Mumbai Indians bowling coach, has been talking about extensively with his bowling group as they look to rebound after two losses in their first three matches. “We have to adapt as quickly as we possibly can,” Bond said ahead…
10:59 AM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 The ECB are still negotiating with England players regarding the salaries of central-contracted cricketers for 2020-21, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was announced on Wednesday that Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope and Dom Sibley have been awarded their first England Test central contracts, with Jonny Bairstow dropping off the red-ball list,…
Amelia Kerr looks back at the day she scored a double ton and took five wickets (2:24) “It was a day where everything seemed to go your way” (2:24) 10:16 AM GMT One Kerr sister started the final T20I in Brisbane in style and another was there to finish it. Amelia Kerr will rightly take the headlines for her matchwinning all-round display of 2 for 18 and a nerveless 18…
9:35 AM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo As England Women prepare to wrap up their T20 series against West Indies, another group of players are reflecting on the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the opportunity it gave them to play the game they love – an opportunity that could have passed them by after the Covid-19 pandemic threatened the entire 2020 women’s season….
8:44 AM GMT Channel Seven have backed down from an earlier threat to pay only one partial instalment of their broadcast deal with Cricket Australia for the whole summer, as talks between the network and the governing body graduated to board level ahead of a looming deadline. CA’s accounts were topped up by the payment of an additional A$10 million on Wednesday, the remainder of the $25 million instalment that…
12:35 PM IST New Zealand 5 for 125 (Satterthwaite 30, Wareham 2-19) beat Australia 7 for 123 (Gardner 29, Kerr 2-18, Tahuhu 2-28) by five wickets Amelia Kerr turned in a masterly display with the ball before delivering precisely the late innings hitting required to lift New Zealand to victory. This helped end a run of 13 Australian wins in all format meetings between the two countries. New Zealand kept…
3:45 AM GMT The PCB will be worse off by nearly PKR 90 million as a result of the withdrawal of state broadcaster PTV (Pakistan Television) from bidding for the rights of a production deal for the series against Zimbabwe and domestic cricket. A consortium led by UAE-based Tower Sports and Indian production company SportzWorkz ultimately won the rights for production. ESPNcricinfo understands that the winning bid was worth PKR…
12:43 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Queensland could field a top order with 17 Test centuries under their belt after naming a 15-man squad for the Adelaide Sheffield Shield hub during October and November. Incumbent Test opener Joe Burns will be joined by Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja in the likely top four with Matt Renshaw a chance to bat at No. 5. Bryce Street, who enjoyed a breakout first season…