India captain Rohit Sharma is battling against the deadline to be available for the Edgbaston Test against England after testing positive for Covid-19 once again on Wednesday morning. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Rohit will undergo two further tests – one this evening and another on Thursday – before the Indian team management takes a final decision on his availability for the Test, which starts on Friday. Rohit, who tested positive…
The PJL is the brainchild of PCB chairman Ramiz Raja, who is looking to exploit the commercial market interest in spending on cricket. The six franchises will be sold through a bidding process, and the team names will be based on major hubs in the country, albeit different from ones already established in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Related PSL franchises, corporates on board for inaugural PJL PCB launches bid…
Glamorgan 139 and 334 for 7 (Ingram 102, Root 99*) beat Worcestershire 271 and 199 (Neser 4-50) by three wickets Billy Root was again the chief thorn in Worcestershire’s side in leading Glamorgan to a three-wicket win over Worcestershire in the LV=Insurance County Championship match at New Road. Two years ago Root had blunted Worcestershire’s victory hopes with a splendid century on the return to cricket after the pandemic in…
Innings England 417 for 8 dec (Sciver 169*, Davidson-Richards 107) lead South Africa 284 by 133 runs Nat Sciver pushed on with her powerful innings to stretch England’s first-innings lead over South Africa to 133 runs on the third morning of their Test in Taunton. Sciver, 119 not out overnight, surpassed Marizanne Kapp’s 150 in South Africa’s first innings to end unbeaten with 169 when England declared. Having resumed with…
New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell have achieved career-best Test rankings of 12 and 20 respectively, following their record showing against England. On the bowling front, England left-arm spinner Jack Leach also bettered his previous best to sit at No. 25. Leach’s England team-mate Jonny Bairstow also rushed up 20 places in the rankings to No. 21 following his series of blistering knocks in the recently concluded series, which…
Temba Bavuma has been ruled out of South Africa’s all-format tour of England and two T20Is against Ireland after picking up an elbow injury during the recent T20Is in India. Keshav Maharaj and David Miller have been named captains of the ODI and T20I sides respectively in Bavuma’s absence. Bavuma is expected to take around eight weeks to recover. The tour will mark the international comeback for Rilee Rossouw. The…
Jayden Seales, Obed McCoy and Odean Smith have earned their maiden Cricket West Indies (CWI) international retainer contracts for men, for the period between July 1, 2022, and June 20, 2023. Also joining the list of 18 are Brandon King, Rovman Powell and Romario Shepherd, while the now-retired Kieron Pollard, as well as Fabien Allen, Darren Bravo, Evin Lewis, Rahkeem Cornwall and Shannon Gabriel have been omitted from the previous…
Who’s still in contention, who isn’t, and who needs to do what to face off for the coveted Test mace in the World Test Championship (WTC) final next year? Here’s the lowdown. How does England’s 3-0 win over New Zealand affect the WTC table? England were already so far behind that even their whitewash of New Zealand doesn’t leave them with much hope of making the final. Even if they…
Legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay will make his Test debut as Sri Lanka have picked three specialist spinners in their line-up after winning the toss and electing to bat in the opening Test of their two-match series with Australia in Galle. Vandersay, 32, bowled impressively in the ODI series taking 3 for 49 and 2 for 40 in two of the matches in Colombo, including dismissing Australia Test batters Marnus Labuschagne twice…
Michael Vaughan has made the decision “step back from work with the BBC”, almost two weeks after being charged over the Yorkshire racism scandal, and will not be part of the Test Match Special commentary team for next week’s delayed fifth Test against India. Vaughan was dropped from last winter’s Ashes coverage after being implicated in Azeem Rafiq‘s testimony about the culture of institutional racism at Yorkshire, but was restored…