News Cruel blow for seamer who worked hard to return from stress fractures in his back Reece Topley could miss England’s entire white-ball summer after sustaining a side strain. Topley, the left-arm seamer, suffered the injury while playing for Surrey’s second XI against Essex on Wednesday. He later underwent a scan which suggested he will be sidelined for four to six weeks. England play six matches – three T20Is and…
News The 17-man squad will be trimmed to 13 ahead of the series opener Trinidad & Tobago fast bowler Jayden Seales has bolted into the West Indies provisional squad for the forthcoming two-match Test series against South Africa in St Lucia. The 19-year-old’s only first-class match so far was for West Indies A in New Zealand last December, and in all he has played only ten professional games at senior…
Report Half-centuries from Paul Stirling and Andy Balbirnie ensured the visitors had little trouble in chasing down the paltry total Ireland 158 for 2 (Balbirnie 63*, Stirling 52) beat Netherlands 157 (O’Dowd 36, Young 4-18, Little 4-39) by eight wickets Four wickets each from Josh Little and Craig Young bundled out Netherlands for 157 before half-centuries by Paul Stirling and captain Andy Balbirnie helped Ireland level the series in the…
News Ismail Dawood equally unimpressed by ECB comments, but governing body rejects allegations of ‘institutional racism’ John Holder has dismissed ECB comments claiming he has withdrawn his claim of racial discrimination against them as “disingenuous” and vowed to never work for the organisation again. Holder and Ismail Dawood had launched a legal challenge against the ECB suggesting that their careers as umpires had been adversely affected by institutional racism at…
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News He will join former team-mates Dilshan and Tharanga at the Eastern Cricket Association competition A Melbourne club team will have the services of former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya as coach next season after he signed a one-year deal with Mulgrave in the city’s east. That will mark Jayasuriya’s return to the game after a two-year ban for breaching the ICC anti-corruption code, announced in February 2019. Jayasuriya, who…
News Haris Sohail is back in ODI squad while Imad Wasim has been included for T20Is against England and West Indies Mohammad Abbas and Naseem Shah have returned to Pakistan’s Test squad for the two-match series against West Indies. Yasir Shah‘s inclusion, however, remains subject to fitness, with the PCB saying that the legspinner is yet to recover from the knee injury that sidelined him for the series against Zimbabwe,…
Sean Abbott works one to the off-side © Getty Images Sean Abbott‘s spell with Surrey in county cricket has ended after just one match with the allrounder suffering a hamstring injury against Gloucestershire. Abbott scored 40 and took 2 for 5 in his first match for the club but did not take the field on the final day at The Oval last week. A Surrey statement said the hamstring was…
Sean Abbott works one to the off-side © Getty Images Sean Abbott‘s spell with Surrey in county cricket has ended after just one match with the allrounder suffering a hamstring injury against Gloucestershire. Abbott scored 40 and took 2 for 5 in his first match for the club but did not take the field on the final day at The Oval last week. A Surrey statement said the hamstring was…
News Seamer ends NZ innings as leading wicket-taker after apologising for historic offensive tweets Graham Thorpe says Ollie Robinson showed “character” on the second day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s. Robinson’s first day of Test cricket ended with him making an unreserved apology after tweets written by him between 2012 and 2013 emerged which contained sexist and racist material. But despite admitting to being “ashamed” and…