Tim Paine will lead the men’s Test team and Nicola Carey will be part of the first Australian cricket of the season 4:49 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Vodafone will be the naming rights partner for Australian men’s Test cricket as part of a three-year deal which will also see the telecommunications company associated with the Women’s Big Bash and the Australia Women’s team. They previously sponsored men’s Test cricket from…
4:19 AM IST Moeen Ali has praised the leadership of Eoin Morgan for providing him with the confidence to rediscover his form with the bat. Moeen went into the final match of the T20I series against Pakistan having reached double-figures only five times in 19 innings across international formats. But although his 61 at Emirates Old Trafford was not enough to prevent England falling to defeat, it did represent his…
3:05 AM IST After England were held to a 1-1 draw in their T20I series against Pakistan, we look at six talking points from the series Top-order depth As things stand, it seems England intend to use Jos Buttler at the top of the order in T20I cricket. That means Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy, Tom Banton and Dawid Malan are all competing for a couple of spots in the top…
2:32 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Northamptonshire 158 for 7 (Levi 35, Lintott 2-18) beat Birmingham Bears 120 (Sanderson 3-11, Buck 2-15) by 38 runs Nathan Buck‘s interventions either side of the interval helped Northamptonshire to a 38-run win over Birmingham Bears and gave them a third straight win in the Vitality Blast to extend their lead at the top of the Central Group. Buck swung 16 in eight balls…
2:04 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Sussex 168 for 7 (Wiese 79*) beat Middlesex 165 for 5 (Eskinazi 79) by three wickets David Wiese‘s magnificent unbeaten 79 saw Sussex beat hosts Middlesex by three wickets in a thrilling Vitality Blast clash at Lord’s. The Sharks’ allrounder hit three sixes and eight fours, surviving a catch from a James Harris no-ball as the visitors recovered from 67 for 5 to reach…
1:45 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Somerset 134 for 2 (Abell 74*) beat Glamorgan 133 for 8 (Cooke 42, Green 4-26) by eight wickets Ben Green announced himself as a T20 player for Somerset with 4 for 26 in an eight-wicket Vitality Blast Central Group win over Glamorgan under the floodlights at the Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton. The 22-year-old Devonian seamer, making only his third appearance in the competition,…
11:54 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff He has had injuries to contend with in the recent past, multiple members of the Chennai Super Kings squad have tested positive for the coronavirus, and for the first time the IPL is likely to be played without crowds. However, despite all of those concerns, Mumbai Indians and India allrounder Hardik Pandya remained unfazed and looked forward to returning to action after a lengthy break….
11:25 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Trinbago Knight Riders 184 for 4 (Munro 65) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 165 for 6 (Russell 50*) by 20 runs Trinbago Knight Riders’ unassailable tilt on the CPL continued in Tarouba, as Colin Munro‘s 65 underpinned the second-highest total of the season before their spinners sucked the life out of Jamaica Tallawahs’ chase…
10:59 PM IST Ian Watmore has pledged the ECB will go ahead with the launch of The Hundred but warned that “nothing is ring-fenced” and redundancies were “inevitable” as the organisation looks to cut costs in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The launch of the competition was postponed this year due to the virus. But while there is currently no guarantee crowds will be allowed to return in 2021, Watmore,…
Aug 31, 2020 Big picture For England in particular, this series has been all about building for the future, broadening their selection base ahead of next year’s postponed T20 World Cup, and ramping up the competition for places that was such an integral aspect of their rise to become last summer’s 50-over champions. But if it has been hard to give the rookies in the current set-up the full bells-and-whistles…