Month: May 2021

News Proposal for statue or gate in memory of female pioneer met with resistance from members Heather Knight, the England women’s captain, has called on MCC to “move with the times”, after a proposal to erect a permanent memorial to one of cricket’s most pioneering figures, Rachael Heyhoe Flint, was met with resistance from sections of the club’s 18,500 male-dominated membership. Baroness Heyhoe Flint, who died in 2017 at the…

News MCC, Surrey, Warwickshire and Emirates Old Trafford part of group; existing schedules remain a challenge A group of English counties has offered to host the remainder of the IPL 2021 season in September this year. The MCC (who own Lord’s), Surrey (who are based at The Kia Oval), Warwickshire (who are based in Birmingham) and Emirates Old Trafford (in Manchester) are understood to be part of the group who…

News After returning a negative test in Bengaluru, she has not been able to visit her family in Kadur Veda Krishnamurthy had visited her family a few weeks ago, but tested negative afterwards   India Women batter Veda Krishnamurthy, whose mother died of Covid-19 on April 23, has been bereaved a second time in a fortnight with her elder sister succumbing to complications caused by the virus on Wednesday. Krishnamurthy’s…

Audio Middlesex seamer tears knee cartilage during practice, faces lengthy lay-off Toby Roland-Jones, the Middlesex seamer, faces another lengthy spell on the sidelines after suffering a knee cartilage tear while training on Tuesday ahead of his side’s LV= County Championship clash with Gloucestershire at Lord’s. Roland-Jones, who has endured a horrific run of misfortune since breaking into the England Test squad in the 2017 home summer, is set to undergo…

News Dates might have been finalised with the T20 World Cup scheduled to conclude on November 15 The fifth edition of the Abu Dhabi T10 tournament will be held from November 19 to December 4 this year. The tournament will be stretched over 15 days – making it longer than all its previous editions – keeping in mind the extended public holiday weekend to celebrate the UAE’s 50th National Day,…

News Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma have been given NOCs by BCCI Sharma, Kaur, Mandhana and Rodrigues all appeared in the now-defunct Kia Super League   India Women players Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Deepti Sharma and Jemimah Rodrigues are set to represent Manchester Originals, Southern Brave, London Spirit and Northern Superchargers respectively in the inaugural edition of the Hundred. A fifth Indian player, the ICC’s No….