The BCB is confident that Shakib Al Hasan won’t have any problems returning to Bangladesh – for the first time since the fall of the Awami League government, of which he was a part – for the Test series against South Africa next month. Shakib, Bangladesh’s most celebrated cricketer, was among 147 people named in a murder case in Dhaka last month. He had become a member of parliament in…
South Australia 166 (Drew 49, Scott 46, Jackson 6-31) beat Western Australia (Turner 53, Whiteman 48, McAndrew 5-40) by two runs Western Australia have suffered an almighty collapse of 7 for 31 against South Australia, sparked by Nathan McAndrew‘s five-wicket haul, to eventually lose by two runs and remain winless in the One-Day Cup after two games. Two days after being upset by New South Wales, Western Australia looked set…
Fresh from bringing up 200 ODI wickets at Headingley on Saturday, Adil Rashid says he has the hunger to continue playing international cricket, dismissing talk that retirement may be on the horizon. The legspinner broke new ground as the first Englishman to reach the milestone, albeit one brought up in a second consecutive defeat to Australia. It was England’s 10th loss in their last 14 ODIs. Another at Chester-le-Street would…
The PCB’s much-trailed ‘connection camp’ ended on Monday with what officials said was a roadmap to bring the game out of the doldrums it finds itself in at the moment. Officials and the team management, including both head coaches Jason Gillespie and Gary Kirsten, described a day of open and robust conversations, including about the lack of unity within the national side, with the two national captains, Shan Masood and…
After a first-day washout in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup final at Trent Bridge, Glamorgan managed to beat both Somerset and the weather to regain the title that they last won in 2021, in a competition that was pragmatically reduced from 50-overs-a-side to 20 to maximise the prospect of a result. It was, as Sam Northeast, Glamorgan’s matchwinning batter, said: “the right thing to do in the circumstances”. That sentiment…
Durham have strengthened their women’s squad ahead of next year’s launch of the new county competition, by signing the England offspinning allrounder, Mady Villiers, on a three-year deal. Villiers has represented England on 20 occasions, most recently on their tour of Ireland where her death-over bowling all but snatched two victories from the jaws of defeat. In all, she has taken 221 white-ball wickets in her professional career, having already…
Red soil will become black. Bounce and carry will be fleeting. And don’t expect a rank turner. In a nutshell, that is likely to be the nature of the pitch at Green Park in Kanpur, where the second and final Test of the India-Bangladesh series starts on September 27. It is understood that unlike the true bounce that lasted across the four days in the first Test in Chennai last…
England Women’s captain Heather Knight has been reprimanded and handed a £1000 suspended fine by the Cricket Regulator for a photo of her in blackface from 2012, deemed as racist and discriminatory conduct. The photo, taken by a third party at a “sports stars” themed fancy-dress party at a cricket club in Kent in 2012, breached ECB directive 3.3, which stated at the time: “No such person may conduct himself…
Derbyshire have signed opening batter Caleb Jewell as one of their overseas players for the 2025 season. Jewell, 27, has represented Australia A and is expected the play all formats for Derbyshire. A left-hand batter, Jewell averages 31.47 in first-class cricket. He was part of the Tasmania side that reached the final of the 2023-24 Sheffield Shield, making a career-best 227 against Western Australia earlier in the season. He also…
Alex Hepburn, the former Worcestershire allrounder, has been suspended from playing in ECB competitions for 10 years by the Cricket Discipline Commission, three years after serving a prison sentence for rape. Earlier this year, Hepburn was charged by the Cricket Regulator with two breaches of ECB Directive 3.3. The first related to his conviction in 2019, for which he was released in October 2021 after serving two years of a…