A groin injury has ruled Navdeep Saini out of the remainder of the Duleep Trophy, and the upcoming three-match one-day series between India A and New Zealand A. The fast bowler sustained the injury on day one of the Duleep Trophy semi-final between North Zone and South Zone in Salem, and was consequently restricted to bowling only 11.2 overs during South Zone’s mammoth first innings, which spanned 172.5 overs. Saini…
Cricket South Africa finally looks set to put their own T20 show on the road. Well, it’s not quite there yet, and there’s reason to be apprehensive, looking at the fates of the Global T20 League and the Mzansi Super League. This time, though, there are cash-rich investors and in-demand players, and the tournament, called SA20, looks good to go. Before that, there’s a player auction. Here’s what you need…
Kate Cross is poised to unleash the frustration of a quiet English summer when her side opens their ODI series with India at Hove on Sunday. The match will be Cross’s first in an England shirt for two months, the seamer who turns 31 next month having played for her country just three times this summer. She took 4 for 63 and 2 for 56 in the drawn Test against…
Lancashire have been in the running for three competitions this season and have won nothing. Defeat in the Royal London Cup final followed an agonising near-miss in the T20 Blast final that Hampshire famously won twice, and a Championship challenge that was finally extinguished by a six-point penalty for disciplinary reasons. For Keaton Jennings, Lancashire’s captain in the 50-over competition, another disappointment was hard to take, and it was testimony…
Central Sparks 260 for 9 (Arlott 63, Freeborn 46, Perrin 45, Villiers 3-44) beat Sunrisers 121 (Scrivens 61, Perrin 3-26) by 139 runs Central Sparks rounded off their Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy campaign with an emphatic 139-run win over Sunrisers at Worcester. Both sides went into their final group game with hopes of qualification for the knockout stage over but Sparks at least ended on a high after piling up…
Mohammed Shami has tested positive for Covid-19. The fast bowler was due to play for India in a T20I series against Australia starting on Tuesday, but has not travelled to Mohali where the first game is set to take place. There has been no official word yet about Shami’s availability to play the matches scheduled for September 20, 23 and 25. He is also part of the squad to face…
Kent 306 for 6 (Evison 97, Denly 78) beat Lancashire 285 (Croft 72, Jennings 71, Stewart 3-42, Gilchrist 3-65) by 21 runs Kent claimed a 21-run victory in the final of the Royal London Cup as Joey Evison made a triumphant return to Trent Bridge only weeks after turning his back on the county. Evison, who was loaned out to Kent by Nottinghamshire for the Royal London Cup ahead of…
England are in a transition phase in T20 international cricket and their historic seven-match series in Pakistan will require them to juggle a number of competing demands. Their selection meeting ahead of the tour lasted nearly four hours as Jos Buttler, Matthew Mott and Rob Key weighed up the importance of fine-tuning ahead of this winter’s World Cup, keeping key players fresh and testing bench strength with an eye on…
Alex Hales‘ strained relationship with Ben Stokes will not throw England off course in their bid to win the T20 World Cup in Australia, according to Matthew Mott. Hales and Stokes were involved in the infamous brawl outside a Bristol nightclub in 2017 that saw Stokes charged with affray – he denied the charge and was found not guilty – and both players handed backdated bans and fines by the…
When Mickey Arthur‘s tenure as Pakistan coach started in 2016, he made an understandable judgement on Shan Masood as a batter. “I thought he was just a Test player,” Arthur told ESPNcricinfo. “Nice and compact, with a really good technique.” Masood had hardly played T20 cricket and in his sporadic appearances, he struggled to get going. After losing his place in the Test side after a difficult tour to England,…