Month: June 2021

News The tour will consist of one Test, three ODIs and three T20Is Zimbabwe’s Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has given Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) permission to host Bangladesh in July despite a government directive to suspend all sporting activity in the country as part of measures aimed at containing Covid-19. The tour will consist of one Test, three ODIs and three T20Is. All matches will take place behind closed doors…

More than three months after he was suspended as the ICC’s chief executive officer, Manu Sawhney has hit back at his employer, alleging that he is the victim of a “premeditated witch hunt”. In a detailed and, at times, scathing response to the allegations that saw him suspended in March, Sawhney has raised several questions about the internal cultural review that led to it. He has also objected to ICC…

News Captain says England ‘can’t play players until they fall over’ in ‘unbelievably busy’ schedule Eoin Morgan has defended the ECB’s rest-and-rotation policy ahead of England’s T20I series against Sri Lanka, calling the current international schedule “unbelievably busy” and insisting that England “can’t play players until they fall over”. Morgan, England’s limited-overs captain, has had his full-strength squad available for both of their last two T20I series, away against South…

News The travelling party will have their passports processed separately, and will not face immigration authorities The Australian men’s team will have heightened bio-bubble measures on their tour to Bangladesh next month. The visitors are likely to touch down on July 29 to play five T20Is against Bangladesh in early August, with all matches being held in Dhaka as per the agreement between the two boards. The measures will start…

News BCB doctor on finger injury: “We will review the injury after one week, and then determine what to do next” Mushfiqur Rahim has already asked the BCB to excuse him from the T20I leg of the Zimbawe tour   Mushfiqur Rahim has picked up a hairline fracture on his left index finger, which he sustained during Abahani Limited’s Dhaka Premier League T20 match against Gazi Group Cricketers on Monday….