Month: July 2022

The growing, unsustainable burden on players could eventually force boards into making the global cricket calendar a more manageable one, according to ICC chairman Greg Barclay. Barclay was speaking after the conclusion of the ICC’s AGM where the Future Tours Programme (FTP) has been going through the final stages before it is published, and where a major thread of discussion among members has been around the balance in the calendar…

The first ever women’s Future Tours Programme (FTP) is now a reality, and will soon be made public, according to ICC’s chief executive officer Geoff Allardice. The schedule, worked out by member countries, spans a three-year period between 2022-25. While Allardice did not divulge any details about the FTP, ESPNcricinfo has learned that teams will play mainly three-match ODI series, which will be part of the Women’s Championships leading towards…

Toss India chose to bat vs West Indies India captain Shikhar Dhawan won the toss in the third ODI and opted to bat first in what is a dead rubber in Port of Spain. India made one change from the side that won a close contest three days back, with Prasidh Krishna returning in place of Avesh Khan. Both Avesh and Prasidh went wicketless in their respective appearances in the…

In the Karachi Test in March earlier this year, Pakistan had been set a target of 506 for victory. Against an Australian attack featuring the likes of Nathan Lyon, Pat Cummins, and Mitchell Starc, Pakistan hadn’t been too far from achieving that total, finishing with 443 for 7 on the final day as the game ended in a draw. With that fourth innings on their recent record, as well as…

Being a “star attraction” at the 2022 Commonwealth Games will give a fillip to the ICC’s ambitions of being included in “all other types of multi-sport games”, mainly the Olympic Games, Geoff Allardice, the ICC chief executive, said in Birmingham on Wednesday. “The idea of being here in Birmingham for the annual [ICC] conference is to celebrate cricket’s involvement in the Commonwealth Games for the first time in 24 years…

BattersTests: 1 Joe Root, 2 Marnus Labuschagne, 3 Babar Azam.ODIs: 1 Babar Azam, 2 Imam-ul-Haq, 3 Rassie van der Dussen.T20Is: 1 Babar Azam, 2 Mohammad Rizwan, 3 Aiden Markram. BowlersTests: 1 Pat Cummins, 2 R Ashwin, 3 Shaheen Shah Afridi.ODIs: 1 Trent Boult, 2 Jasprit Bumrah, 3 Shaheen Shah Afridi.T20Is:1 Josh Hazlewood, 2 Adil Rashid, 3 Tabraiz Shamsi. AllroundersTests: 1 Ravindra Jadeja, 2 R Ashwin, 3 Shakib Al Hasan.ODIs: 1…

Nathan Ellis will continue to push his case for a spot in Australia’s T20 World Cup squad in the Hundred after signing a deal with London Spirit. Ellis, 27, was a travelling reserve in the squad that won the title in the UAE last year and starred for Hampshire in their T20 Blast win earlier this month, finishing the tournament with 15 wickets and an economy rate of just 6.87….

Adam Gilchrist believes it would be “commercial suicide” for Cricket Australia to allow any of their contracted players to play in the UAE or South Africa T20 Leagues that are set to clash with the BBL in January. Speaking on SEN Radio on Wednesday, Gilchrist was discussing a report in The Australian that said David Warner was seeking a release from CA to play in the UAE league in January….

Lunch Sri Lanka 378 and 297 for 7 (Dhananjaya 84*, R Mendis 8*, Naseem 2-36, Nawaz 2-52) lead Pakistan 231 by 444 runs Dhananjaya de Silva pressed Sri Lanka’s lead into truly enormous territory, getting to 84 in 143 balls by lunch, as the team moved 444 runs ahead. The centrepiece of Sri Lanka’s innings was the 126-run sixth-wicket stand between de Silva and Dimuth Karunaratne, who battled through a…

KL Rahul is unlikely to travel to the West Indies for the five-match T20I series, as earlier anticipated. ESPNcricinfo understands that though the isolation period for Rahul, who had tested positive for Covid-19 last week, ends today, he has been advised one more week’s rest and recuperation by the BCCI’s medical professionals. Rahul had been recovering at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru since undergoing a sports hernia surgery in…