Month: May 2021

News England players unlikely to be released for tournament restart, says ECB director of cricket Ashley Giles, the ECB director of men’s cricket, says there hasn’t yet been an official request from the BCCI to amend England’s schedule   England are not planning on making any changes to their plans to accommodate the IPL, according to Ashley Giles. While Giles, the managing director of England men’s cricket, admitted some players…

Report John Simpson finds late support to rescue another top-order wobble Middlesex 260 for 7 (Simpson 73*) vs Leicestershire Middlesex feel they would have doubled their wins tally for the season but for the badly-timed arrival of rain at The Kia Oval last week and arrived here with a sense of relative optimism after another season in which that mood has been experienced only intermittently. Moreover, against the only team…

Report Young batsman reaches career-best score but falls short of maiden hundred Worcestershire 330 for 7 (Haynes 97, D’Oliveira 71) vs Derbyshire Worcestershire batsman Jack Haynes hit his career-best score but fell just short of his maiden first-class hundred for the second time this month on day one of the LV= Insurance County Championship match with Derbyshire at New Road. Haynes had struck 87 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston before being…

News England players will not be released for tournament restart, says ECB director of cricket Ashley Giles, the ECB director of men’s cricket, says there hasn’t yet been an official request from the BCCI to amend England’s schedule   England are not planning on making any changes to their plans to accommodate the IPL, according to Ashley Giles. While Giles, the managing director of England men’s cricket, admitted some players…

News The England quick, who underwent elbow surgery last week, insists he is placing no timeframe on his recovery Jofra Archer says he is “quite prepared” to miss England’s five-Test series against India in August and September in a bid to be ready for his twin targets of the T20 World Cup and the Ashes next winter, after undergoing what he described as a “career-defining” elbow operation on Friday. Archer,…

News ‘I planned so that the batsmen couldn’t dominate me, even if I didn’t take wickets,’ says Bangladesh offspinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz: I was a Test specialist when I started but I always wanted to play all the formats successfully   Mehidy Hasan Miraz believes that his appetite to play in all three formats is the reason for his climb up to No. 2 in the ICC’s rankings for bowlers…