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Vintage Bell as he unfurls a cover drive against New Zealand © Getty Images Ian Bell, the former England middle-order batsman, will retire from professional cricket at the end of this season. Bell, 38, last played for England in 2015, but has been a regular for Warwickshire since then. He missed the whole of the

12:01 PM IST Deivarayan Muthu Lasith Malinga, the highest wicket-taker in the IPL, and Suresh Raina, the second-highest run-getter in the league, have both opted out of the 2020 season in the UAE. In addition to these two and Harbhajan Singh, who are all such huge IPL icons, Chris Woakes and Jason Roy have also

3:34 AM IST Eoin Morgan has hailed his bowling attack’s belief in their own strengths after Australia’s late-innings implosion allowed England to squeeze out a two-run win in the first T20I at the Ageas Bowl on Friday night. Australia needed 39 from 36 balls at the start of Adil Rashid‘s final over, but he removed

7:20 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Harbhajan Singh has called for people to “respect his privacy” after opting out of IPL 2020, saying that family takes precedence over sport. “I have informed the CSK management about my decision to pull out of this year”s IPL. I have decided to take a break due to personal reasons

9:21 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The entire 59-game WBBL season will be held in Sydney, starting on October 25, to enable the competition to go ahead amid the challenges created by Covid-19. Sydney had already been scheduled to host a three-week hub during the competition – with matches at North Sydney Oval, Hurstville Oval and

11:38 PM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando No Result St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 46 for 0 (Lynn 23*, Lewis 21*) v Jamaica Tallawahs The St Kitts and Nevis Patriots made a healthy start, but after 5.4 overs, the rain came down over Tarouba to stop their innings, and their CPL campaign, in its tracks. With

5:20 PM IST Kings XI Punjab co-owner Ness Wadia on Thursday said the Covid-19 positive cases in the Chennai Super Kings contingent could have hit any of the eight franchises and wants only those people in the IPL bio-bubble who are “really required” to be with the players. Thirteen members of the CSK contingent, including

11:52 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Former Maharashtra Ranji player Shekhar Gawli has died after falling in a 250-feet-deep gorge in Maharashtra”s Nashik district, Press Trust of India reported on Wednesday. Gawli, 45, played two first class matches for Maharashtra in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He had gone for trekking in the Western Ghat

3:05 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 157 for 3 (Cockbain 84*) beat Birmingham Bears 100 (Smith 5-16) by 57 runs Gloucestershire brushed Birmingham Bears aside by 57 runs in a truncated Central Group thrash in the Vitality Blast at Edgbaston. In a game shortened to 12 overs per side by rain, Gloucestershire piled up

7:24 PM IST David Capel, the former England allrounder and stalwart of Northamptonshire as player, captain and later coach, has died at the age of 57 following a long illness. Capel, who played 270 first-class matches for Northants between 1981 and 1998 as well as 300 List A games, enjoyed an unbroken 32-year association with

11:14 AM IST New Zealand head coach Gary Stead will focus on “small gains” the team can make over the next few years to try and avoid the repeat of the Super Over heartbreak that has become a feature of their limited-overs cricket. Stead, who was given a three-year contract extenstion on Wednesday, will have

3:05 AM IST After England were held to a 1-1 draw in their T20I series against Pakistan, we look at six talking points from the series Top-order depth As things stand, it seems England intend to use Jos Buttler at the top of the order in T20I cricket. That means Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy, Tom

7:00 PM IST Less than three weeks to go for the scheduled start of IPL 2020, and there’s still no sign of the final schedule for the tournament. Whatever the reasons for that delay may be, it has “nothing to do with the Abu Dhabi border or the quarantine restrictions”, according to a local cricket

11:27 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli didn’t miss cricket as much as he thought he might after the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a halt, as he returned to the nets for Royal Challengers Bangalore to prepare for IPL 2020. Kohli said that he embraced a break he couldn’t get otherwise before the

11:52 PM IST Cricket South Africa have been forced to postpone their Annual General Meeting scheduled for Saturday, during which they were due to elect a new president and at least two other board members. The postponement comes after CSA were due to meet with the country’s minister of sport, Nathi Mthethwa, who demanded to

6:42 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Jos Buttler, Mark Wood and Jofra Archer have been recalled to England’s T20I and ODI squads for the forthcoming series against Australia, but there is no return for the Test captain Joe Root, nor for Jason Roy, who is yet to recover from a side strain. England’s two white-ball squads

5:48 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cummins XI 250 for 8 (Maxwell 108, Stoinis 87, Lyon 3-47) beat Finch XI 249 (Tye 59, Starc 41, Stoinis 4-31) by two wickets Glenn Maxwell hit a century in his first innings since the Big Bash final in February and Marcus Stoinis produced an impressive all-round display with 87

Eoin Morgan slog-sweeps © Getty Images Eoin Morgan has suggested he is hitting the ball as well as at any time in his career after a match-defining performance against Pakistan. Morgan made 66 from 33 balls as England pulled off a record T20I chase at Emirates Old Trafford and against this opposition. It was his