Month: November 2020

2:40 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies (CWI) board director Dr Akshai Mansingh and Paul Slowe, the board’s security manager, will visit Dhaka and Chattogram next week to inspect the BCB’s bio-security plans and health protocols in the country. The news comes following CWI president Ricky Skerritt’s statement that West Indies are keen to tour Bangladesh as scheduled, in January next year. West Indies are supposed to play three…

Sourav Ganguly has said India’s 2021 home series against England will go ahead as scheduled  2:23 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England men’s upcoming tour of India in February-March 2021 will feature four Tests instead of the five originally, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly confirmed on Tuesday. With 2021 being a T20 World Cup year – India is slated to host it in October-November – the extra Test has now been scrapped…

1:30 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jos Buttler looks set to retain his role as England’s first-choice T20I opener, despite his job swap with Ben Stokes during their IPL campaign with Rajasthan Royals, but there’s unlikely to be an immediate recall for Joe Root, according to head coach Chris Silverwood, even though he restated his value as a short-form batsman during Monday’s intra-squad warm-up in Paarl. Speaking to PA media in…

1:12 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Andre Fletcher has pledged that West Indies will continue to play a positive, aggressive brand of cricket in their three upcoming T20Is against New Zealand, despite the side losing five of their last six series in the format and sitting ninth in the ICC’s rankings. Fletcher is in line for his first international appearance since 2018 on the back of a successful Caribbean Premier League…

12:41 PM GMT Minister Group Rajshahi 169 for 9 (Mahedi 50, Nurul 39, Muktar 3-22) beat Beximco Dhaka 167 for 5 (Mushfiqur 41, Akbar 34, Mahedi 1-22) by two runs Mahedi Hasan bowled a brilliant final over to help Minister Group Rajshahi clinch a two-run win over Beximco Dhaka in the opening game of the Bangabandhu T20 Cup. Mahedi bowled five dot balls – most of them yorkers – to…

Saqib Mahmood, Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali are ambassadors for the South Asian Cricket Association  11:00 AM GMT A new scheme which aims to encourage more players of Asian origin into professional cricket in England and Wales has been set up. The South Asian Cricket Association (SACA) will offer bursaries, education opportunities and coaching aimed at helping British Asian cricketers between the ages of 18 and 24 pursue a career…

CA CEO Nick Hockley: “We’re just delighted Virat Kohli will be here to captain the side for the ODIs and the T20Is and the first Test.”  10:22 AM GMT Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley believes that the absence of Virat Kohli from the major part of India’s Test series in Australia will not have any financial implications for the board even considering how much attention India’s captain attracts. Kohli is…

8:38 AM GMT The 56-game WBBL regular season is finished and we know the four semi-finalists, including defending champions Brisbane Heat, aiming for a hat-trick of titles, and the Melbourne Stars having reached the knockouts for the first time. Here’s a look at how the two matches shape up Melbourne Stars (1st) v Perth Scorchers (4th) How the group stage went It took the Stars three matches before they could…

8:22 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff It’s almost inevitable now that the build-up to a Test series involving Australia will heavily feature Steven Smith and the challenge of bowling to him. Smith has himself spoken of the possibility that India will look to bowl persistently short at him – a method that brought Neil Wagner success when New Zealand toured Australia in 2019-20 – but Sachin Tendulkar has suggested a different…

Ellyse Perry’s returns with bat and ball have dropped off in this season’s WBBL  7:50 AM GMT Belinda Clark believes that Ellyse Perry will be forced to rethink her approach to T20 cricket after her returns, with bat and ball, dropped off dramatically at the ongoing edition of the WBBL and the Sydney Sixers missed out on the tournament finals for the second year in a row. Clark pointed to…