4:55 PM GMT South African cricket has hit rock bottom after the CSA board and its executive were instructed to step aside by the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) following nine months of administrative implosion. In that time, CSA suspended and dismissed a CEO (and other senior officials), saw another CEO and
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1:29 PM IST It was amid the warm glow of Gold Coast temperatures and booming Commonwealth Games “special event” ratings that Channel Seven was convinced to shell out some A$450 million as the free-to-air component of a A$1.18 billion broadcast deal with Cricket Australia in April 2018. Those friendly environs might as well be a
1:30 AM IST The tenth edition of the Big Bash League may be played in 10-game blocks in individual centres in a concession to the constraints of Covid-19, and may venture as far afield as Launceston and the Northern Territory as the tournament turns its expansive venues footprint into a series of contingencies to get
8:48 PM IST Eoin Morgan has challenged his world-beating ODI players to adapt their dynamic brand of cricket to the slow, low wickets on which they will be defending their World Cup title in India in 2023, and believes that three matches against Australia at Emirates Old Trafford offer the perfect opportunity to start putting
1:18 PM IST Shashank Kishore Is it a good idea to postpone the “mega” IPL auction, scheduled to be held ahead of the 2021 season, by a year? A number of franchises have brought this point up for discussion with the IPL, and Venky Mysore, chief executive of Kolkata Knight Riders, believes it isn’t a
11:24 PM IST The final of the Bob Willis Trophy looks almost certain not to be televised. When the competition was devised a few months ago, it was hoped the final – a five-day match to be showed at Lord’s – would be something of a showpiece for the game. But with spectators still not
9:44 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Salman Butt has refused to play the National T20 Cup after he was demoted from the first XI of Central Punjab. Since his return from a five-year ban for spot-fixing in 2016, Butt averaged 51.28 in T20 cricket for Lahore Whites. He was picked up last year by Central Punjab
12:59 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Peter Handscomb has completed a move to the Hobart Hurricanes for the BBL, after he was not offered a new deal with the Melbourne Stars following nine seasons with the club, in what could be one of the higher profile moves ahead of the new season. In 51 matches for
10:43 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Trinbago Knight Riders 111 for 1 (Simmons 54*, Webster 44*) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 107 for 7 (Bonner 41, Powell 33, Hosein 3-14, Pierre 2-29) by nine wickets On the back of a domineering performance with both bat and ball in the fist CPL 2020 semi-final, Trinbago Knight Riders sealed a
9:26 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Anil Kumble, who came on board as the head coach of Kings XI Punjab in October 2019, has said that the number of Indian coaches in the IPL is not a “true reflection” of the coaching resources in the country, and that he’d like to see more home-grown coaches in
11:37 AM IST Ellyse Perry remains hopeful of being able to return to action in Australia’s opening T20I against New Zealand later this month but is realistic at the prospects of playing all six T20Is and ODIs which come in the space of two weeks. It is six months since Perry severely injured her hamstring
1:34 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Ireland has cancelled an interprovincial T20 scheduled for Wednesday because of concerns about a possible Covid-19 “chain of transmission” to the Bob Willis Trophy match between Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire that was abandoned at the weekend. The T20 between Munster Reds and Northern Knights was due to take place in
8:39 PM IST Big Picture Blink and you miss it in the frantic world of T20. Opportunity has knocked twice for Australia in this series – with a thumping great battering ram in the series opener on Friday, and with a polite rap of enquiry in the closing moments two days later. And twice England
10:05 AM IST Mitchell Starc believes Australia’s off-the-pace showings in their opening two T20 internationals against England are the result of a lack of cricket after seven months of coronavirus induced torpor. The Southampton pitch turned out to be more lively than the captain Aaron Finch had expected when he opted to bat first. After
1:59 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 4 for 1 trail Warwickshire 186 (Bell 50, Douthwaite 3-42) by 182 runs Ian Bell top-scored for Warwickshire in his penultimate first-class innings as the visitors battled for the ascendancy against bottom-placed Glamorgan, looking for their first Bob Willis Trophy win in the season’s final round. Any stranger
8:46 PM IST Northamptonshire’s Bob Willis Trophy match at Bristol was abandoned after lunch on the opening day after a player in their squad tested positive for Covid-19. Gloucestershire had reached 66 for 6 when lunch was taken, but the players did not emerge after the interval and play was called off for the day
11:16 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Trinbago Knight Riders v St Kitts and Patriots, Tarouba Our XI: Lendl Simmons, Evin Lewis (capt), Kieron Pollard (vice-captain), Ben Dunk, Dwayne Bravo, Tim Siefert, Jon Russ Jaggesar, Sohail Tanvir, Fawad Ahmed, Rayad Emrit, Kharry Pierre NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury
12:18 AM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando Trinbago Knight Riders maintained their fearsome unbeaten run in the CPL, riding powerful Kieron Pollard performances with bat and ball to a 23-run victory over the St. Lucia Zouks, after making 175 for 5. This game meant almost nothing to the Knight Riders – their place atop the table