The ICC’s next revenue-distribution model looks set to confirm the BCCI as the only really big player in the game, with the Indian board projected to take home nearly 40% of the ICC’s net surplus earnings from its next four-year commercial cycle. The new model, currently at a proposed stage and seen by ESPNcricinfo, draws from much of the rationale that underpinned the short-lived Big Three takeover in 2014, but…
The PCB presented its “hybrid” solution for hosting the 2023 Asia Cup again to the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), believing that this time it had resolved logistical and technical concerns the ACC had raised. Officials from both sides met in Dubai on Tuesday, but it emerged that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have both objected to holding a part of the tournament in the UAE….
New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White has announced his decision to step down from the role in August. White, who took over the position in February 2012, is just the fourth chief executive after Chris Doig, Martin Snedden and Justin Vaughan to lead NZC since the adoption of the Hood Report recommendations in 1995. “NZC is in a secure financial position with a solid balance sheet and long-term commercial…
Pat Cummins admits he was “burnt out” by the relentless nature of the cricket schedule when he returned from a frustrating run of injuries early in his international career. In his first interview since leaving India midway through Australia’s tour in February to spend time with his dying mother, the Test and ODI captain declared he wanted to play until he was 35. However, Cummins said he needed to adjust…
Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis has admitted to being disappointed with the lack of runs from his team in the last five overs at the Wankhede after Mumbai Indians chased down a 200-run target on a canter. Du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell added 120 runs in just 62 deliveries for the third wicket and laid the platform for a big finish. But after Maxwell fell to Jason Behrendorff…
South Africa are “obviously chuffed” to have qualified directly for the men’s ODI World Cup, to be played in India later this year, after spending the bulk of the World Cup Super League outside of the top eight. And they have the weather in Chelmsford to thank for it. With the no-result in the first of three ODIs between Ireland and Bangladesh on Tuesday, even if Ireland go on to…
Mumbai Indians 200 for 4 (Suryakumar 83, Wadhera 52*, Vyshak 2-37) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 199 for 6 (Maxwell 68, du Plessis 65, Behrendorff 3-36) by six wickets If ever you needed an example of a team walking home in a 200 chase without any stress, this was it. And in doing so, Mumbai Indians fired their IPL 2023 campaign into orbit as they made a stunning climb from No….
Chennai Super Kings Played 11, Points 13, NRR 0.409Rem mat: DC (h), KKR (h), DC (a) Chennai Super Kings are relatively comfortably placed in second place, on 13 points after 11 games and with a healthy net run rate too. In an extreme case, even if they lose all three remaining matches, they could still be battling for fourth spot if other results go their way. Obviously, though, they will…
He doesn’t have any injury concerns, and isn’t bowling for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2023 only because of the surfeit of allrounders in the team, Shardul Thakur said on Tuesday. “We have a side full of allrounders with [Andre] Russell, Sunil [Narine]… we have got maximum of eight bowling options that also includes Nitish [Rana], who also bowls an over or two nowadays,” Thakur, who missed three matches during…
Ebony Rainford-Brent, the World Cup-winning former England batter who went on to found the African-Caribbean Engagement (ACE) programme, is set to join the ECB board as one of two new cricket non-executive directors. The appointments of Rainford-Brent and sports development expert Pete Ackerley completes the restructuring of the ECB board, after last month’s announcement of four new non-executive directors: Penny Avis, Baroness Zahida Manzoor, Jennifer Owen Adams and Gareth Williams….