Month: July 2021

News Ben Stokes to captain replacement team against Pakistan after three players, four management test positive England’s white-ball squads have been forced to self-isolate two days before the start of their ODI series against Pakistan following seven positive Covid-19 tests among the team’s players and management. Three players and four members of management have tested positive for Covid. “In collaboration with Public Health England, Public Health Wales and Bristol Local…

News Ankola got the big job last season, before Mumbai won the Vijay Hazare Trophy Salil Ankola’s selection panel picked Mumbai’s Vijay Hazare-winning squad last season   Former India quick Salil Ankola has been retained as Mumbai’s chief selector by the state association’s cricket improvement committee, secretary Sanjay Naik confirmed to PTI. Ankola said his only focus was on the “betterment of Mumbai cricket”. “It is good to be back…

News The squad was split into two teams of 10 for a 22-over-a-side match in the first proper hit-out of the tour Australia I 195 for 6 (Marsh 56, Turner 45) beat Australia II 193 for 5 (Christian 47, Henriques 36) by four wickets Dan Christian, Mitchell Marsh and Ashton Turner made an impression with the bat during Australia’s first inter-squad warm-up match in St Lucia ahead of the T20I…

Play 00:50 Paine open to Smith missing T20 World Cup for Ashes State batters should be “licking their lips” at the prospect of pushing for an Ashes batting spot according to Test captain Tim Paine with vacancies in Australia’s top order. ESPNcricinfo understands that more than half the Sheffield Shield, which is scheduled to return to its full 31-game season after being truncated by the pandemic in 2020-21, is due…

Report Spinner claims seven to limit Northants’ lead to 12 as tense contest heads for showdown Yorkshire 158 and 159 for 6 (Brook 76*) lead Northamptonshire 170 (Vasconcelos 55, Bess 7-43) by 147 runs This is a high-pressure match as far as the Championship is concerned, but don’t talk to Dom Bess about pressure. He experienced what pressure really means in India during a deeply unsettling England winter. The sort…

Report Home side move into three-figure lead after rounding up Derbyshire in first innings Nottinghamshire 256 for 7 (Duckett 69*, Hameed 57, Hudson-Prentice 4-50) lead Derbyshire 149 (Fletcher 3-36) by 107 runs Nottinghamshire, looking to book their place in the top division in the concluding phase of the LV= Insurance County Championship, will take a lead of 107 runs into day three against Derbyshire at Trent Bridge. Haseeb Hameed made…

Report Warwickshire bowled out for 237 after afternoon collapse to Durham seamers Durham 20 for 1 trail Warwickshire 237 (Yates 102, Raine 3-51, Stokes 3-55) by 217 runs An accomplished century from Rob Yates led Warwickshire’s resistance of an impressive Durham seam attack on the second day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match at Edgbaston. Academy product Yates struck 102 (239 balls, 11 fours) but Durham ended the day…

Report Veteran seamer routs visitors for 74 with career-best 7 for 19 before evening fightback James Anderson reaches his 1000th first-class wicket with his fifth of the innings   Lancashire 108 for 5 (Davies 47) lead Kent 74 (Anderson 7-19) by 34 runs History was made during an astonishing afternoon of cricket at Emirates Old Trafford as Lancashire’s James Anderson claimed both his 1,000th first class wicket and his best…