Katie Levick bowls during the inaugural Kia Super League match between Yorkshire Diamonds and Loughborough Lightning 10:13 PM IST Valkerie Baynes For Katie Levick, the Women’s Hundred represents a chance to prove what might have been. Having turned her back on a potential international career for financial reasons when she was 21, Yorkshire leg-spinner Levick was among the first domestic players chosen for a Northern Superchargers squad captained by England’s…
Sanjeev Chawla gets bail, Delhi Police asks for order to be stayed
4:04 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Delhi Police has challenged the bail granted to alleged bookie Sanjeev Chawla. Chawla had been granted bail by a trial court in Delhi on Friday, before the police took the matter before the Delhi High Court. The High Court has reserved its order, asking both parties to put together their responses. Chawla had been extradited to India from the UK in February. He is one…
Personal issues of 2018 brought on suicidal thoughts, says Mohammed Shami
12:45 PM IST India fast bowler Mohammed Shami has said that he had thought of committing suicide thrice while battling personal issues a few years ago, forcing his family to keep a close watch over him at the time. He said family members feared he “might jump” from their 24th floor apartment. Shami opened up on this aspect of his personal life during an Instagram chat with his India team-mate…
ECB and CWI hold 'positive' talks on rescheduling West Indies tour
Joe Root and Jason Holder have been involved in discussions about West Indies’ tour 10:29 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Representatives from England and West Indies, including Test captains Joe Root and Jason Holder, have been involved in “positive ongoing discussions” about rescheduling their forthcoming series, the ECB has said. West Indies were due to arrive in the UK this month ahead of a three-Test tour, but that has now been…
Jason Roy keen for cricket's return but admits T20 World Cup doubt
‘Still want to prove myself in Tests’ – Roy (1:20) Jason Roy is hungry to regain his spot in the England side, having been dropped during last year’s Ashes (1:20) 10:28 PM IST England batsman Jason Roy has conceded that it might “make sense” to postpone this year’s men’s T20 World Cup, with the possibility of travel restrictions and biosecurity issues around the spread of the coronavirus set to have…
England tour rearranged for January, claims SLC chief executive
Joe Root leads his team off the field after the postponement of their Test series in Sri Lanka 10:44 PM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka, which was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, will be rescheduled to January 2021. That is what SLC CEO Ashley de Silva has suggested anyway, though the ECB appears not to have made any firm arrangements yet. SLC is currently attempting…
Inzamam-ul-Haq, Javed Miandad the heroes as Pakistan surge into World Cup final
8:48 PM IST Pakistan 264 for 6 (Inzamam 60, Miandad 57*, Watson 2-39) beat New Zealand 262 for 7 (Crowe 91, Rutherford 50, Akram 2-40, Mushtaq 2-40) by four wickets They lost three of their first five matches, and should probably have lost a fourth too, when England bowled them out for 74. Rain saved them there, and gave them an underserved point, a point that was eventually critical to…
Tom Harrison faces DCMS Committee to assess Covid's impact on cricket
5:25 PM IST Tom Harrison has been called to appear in front of the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee of the House of Commons as part of an inquiry into the impact of Covid-19 on sport in the UK. Harrison, the ECB’s chief executive, will appear before Members of Parliament on Tuesday, May 5. The session will be conducted online and will also feature testimony from…
Colin Graves to stand down as ECB chairman after Hundred postponement
ECB chairman Colin Graves in conversation with Andrew Strauss, MD of English cricket, during the 2015 Ashes series © Getty Images Colin Graves will end his five-year tenure as ECB chairman on August 31, with Ian Watmore cleared to succeed him following a review into the circumstances of his departure from the Football League. The decision was confirmed by the ECB board in the wake of the decision to postpone…
Shadab Khan and D'Arcy Short's Surrey contracts cancelled
3:26 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Surrey have cancelled D’Arcy Short and Shadab Khan‘s contracts for the T20 Blast season following the competition’s postponement. The ECB announced last week that no professional cricket would be played in England and Wales until July 1 at the earliest due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Blast likely to be pushed back to the final months of the season. Surrey said in a statement:…