Adam Milne played for Kent in the Blast between 2017 and 2019 © Getty Images Kent have signed Adam Milne, the New Zealand pace bowler, as a replacement for Mohammad Amir, whose Pakistan Super League commitments will prevent him from appearing in the Vitality Blast. Amir had been due to play for Kent in the second half of the Blast, after the completion of the PSL – but the shifting…
News Cameron Green, Ben McDermott, Nathan Ellis, Wes Agar and Ashton Turner have been added to the line-up as well The recall gives Dan Christian a chance to make a late push for the T20 World Cup squad Dan Christian has been added to the initial Australia white-ball squad ahead of the tours of the West Indies and Bangladesh. The selectors have brought in six further names to the…
News Captain of defending champions handed possible T20 World Cup chance Dan Christian, captain and inspiration of defending T20 Blast champions the Notts Outlaws, has pulled out of the group stages on the eve of the tournament after winning an international recall at the age of 38. Overseas withdrawals from England’s flagship T20 tournament are a fact of life, such is the crowded nature of the calendar, but this one…
News Solitary change to 17-person group ahead of home series against India Sophia Dunkley, the South East Stars allrounder, has replaced Kirstie Gordon in the only change to England Women’s central contracts list for the year 2021-22. Dunkley has played in each of England’s last five T20Is after impressing in the bio-secure bubble in Derby last summer, and has started the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy with scores of 104 not…
News The allrounder is now back with the New Zealand squad and has no plans to ditch the captaincy New Zealand captain Sophie Devine has opened up on her decision to take a break from the game at the end of last season with her fatigue having reached a point where she did not feel able to do herself or her team justice. Devine stepped away after the first T20I…
News Unnamed player was under 16 at the time of offensive social media posts The ECB may be forced to act again after another England player was found to have posted discriminatory content on Twitter More historic tweets of a discriminatory nature from a player involved with the England men’s squad have emerged. A day after the ECB announced the suspension of Ollie Robinson pending a disciplinary investigation, Wisden.com…
Stephan Myburgh hit six fours and three sixes during his knock © Peter Della Penna Netherlands 166 for 6 (Myburgh 74, O’Dowd 36, Singh 3-29) beat Ireland 163 (Tector 58, Dockrell 40, Klaassen 3-23, van Beek 3-29) by four wickets Fred Klaassen and Logan van Beek picked up three wickets each before Stephan Myburgh anchored the chase of 164 with a 111-ball 74 to give Netherlands a 2-1 series win…
News SLC commits to making evaluation marks available to each player upon UK return Sri Lanka are scheduled to play six white-ball internationals in England from June 23 to July 4 Sri Lanka’s men’s cricketers have agreed to tour England uncontracted, after Sri Lanka Cricket committed to revealing specifics about the player evaluations that form the basis of the board’s new proposed contract scheme. The cricketers have long contended…
News Senior Bangladesh batter will be available for the one-off Test and the three ODIs Mushfiqur Rahim has been playing continuously, as well as abiding by Covid-19 protocols, since October last year Mushfiqur Rahim has informed Bangladesh’s selectors that he wants to opt out of playing the T20Is against Zimbabwe next month. The BCB hasn’t approved his request yet but in recent months they have been understanding of the…
News Boris Johnson’s spokesperson says PM supports Oliver Dowden’s ‘over the top’ comment The ECB has been accused of going “over the top” in its punishment of Ollie Robinson by a UK government minister. Oliver Dowden, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), called on the ECB to think again after it suspended Robinson from international cricket pending a “disciplinary investigation” into tweets he made in…