11:05 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff On the eve of the one-year anniversary of last year’s extraordinary World Cup final, New Zealand coach Gary Stead has admitted there remains a “numb” feeling about the result which saw England win on boundary countback. The match was tied across the initial 50 overs after Ben Stokes could only
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1:27 AM IST Jason Holder has described the fourth day of the Ageas Bowl Test as “by far the best effort” he had seen from a West Indies team during his time as captain and “one of the best” in his tenure. West Indies took five wickets at a cost of just 30 runs at
7:44 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff MS Dhoni has marginally edged out Sourav Ganguly as the more impactful captain in a Star Sports survey, in which two of India’s most successful captains were judged across a number parameters developed in collaboration with ESPNcricinfo. While Dhoni was rated the best ODI and home-Test captain by significant margins,
1:19 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff BCCI president Sourav Ganguly expects Virat Kohli‘s side to register their second successive Test series win in Australia when they tour down under later this year. Ganguly stated the upcoming tour would be tougher than the previous outing of 2018-19 but said India also had the batting and bowling to
12:55 AM IST West Indies head coach Phil Simmons hailed his bowling attack’s persistence and patience after five late wickets put his team into the driving seat against England. When Zak Crawley and Ben Stokes combined for a fluent partnership of 98, the bulk of which were made after the tea interval, it had looked
2:07 AM IST For years, whenever England have struggled in the field, the call has been for pace. Whether struggling for penetration at Chennai or Lord’s or Adelaide, the suggestion has always been that, with a bit more pace, England would be able to extract more life from the surface and have the ingredient their
12:54 AM IST Playing late. Kraigg Brathwaite pithily explained it is the best way to succeed in England as a batsman. Brathwaite’s 65 was his first half-century in 21 innings. On the previous tour of England in 2017, along with Shai Hope, Brathwaite was West Indies’ best batsman. But no one remembers what Brathwaite did
1:13 AM IST Few opening batsmen would keep their place in any Test side in the world after a run of form like the one Kraigg Brathwaite has endured over the last two years. Across his last 21 innings coming into this tour, he had made a paltry 241 runs at an average a shade
8:30 PM IST Danyal Rasool Saleem Malik‘s ongoing quest to be reintegrated into Pakistan cricket has been pushed back once again by the PCB. The board believes Malik hasn’t again responded satisfactorily to the contents of a conversation 20 years ago in which he talked about fixing cricket matches. While Malik insists he had submitted
12:12 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowlers are widely known to use three different methods to get the ball to swerve through the air: conventional swing, contrast swing, reverse swing. James Anderson, however, can lay claim to a fourth method: reverse reverse swing. What’s that? According to no less an authority than Sachin Tendulkar, who
1:24 AM IST It’s a funny thing, given that he spent a fair bit of the afternoon sitting on his hotel room balcony as one of this Test’s very few spectators, but Stuart Broad may well have had the best day of any of England’s bowlers. For while James Anderson, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood
9:15 PM IST The South African Cricketers’ Association (SACA) has thrown its weight behind fast bowler Lungi Ngidi after at least three former internationals criticised him for his stance on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. On Monday, Ngidi said he hopes South African players will join the “rest of the world and make a
11:58 AM IST New South Wales coach Phil Jaques believes splitting the Sheffield Season between two types of balls was a good way of challenging the players to improve. Since 2016-17, the second half of the season played after the Big Bash had used a variation of the Dukes as part of Cricket Australia’s plans
12:53 AM IST Amateur cricketers in England and Wales will be obliged to maintain social distance, even when attempting a quick single or standing up to the stumps, according to the latest ECB guidelines governing the return of recreational cricket. The new gameplay requirements, in accordance with Step 4 of the ECB’s roadmap for the
7:49 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Players from both teams and match officials have taken part in a poignant gesture in support of the Black Lives Matter movement before play in the first Test between England and West Indies at the Ageas bowl. The players, support staff and umpires all took a knee, with each member
11:25 PM IST The ECB has announced a new range of measures designed to open cricket up to more diverse communities, after Tom Harrison, the chief executive, admitted that the Black Lives Matter movement had revealed some “uncomfortable truths” about the sport’s relevance to black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) players. Speaking on the eve
10:15 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s live updates on the 1st Test between England and West Indies at the Ageas Bowl. We’ve also got traditional ball-by-ball, too. If the blog
8:07 PM IST Counties may be offered an opt-out of this season’s first-class competition as part of plans to restart domestic cricket. While the first-class counties voted by a narrow margin to play first-class and T20 cricket in the abbreviated 2020 season, it is understood one or two retain strong reservations about hotel stays. Hampshire,