2:52 PM IST Cricket Australia’s financial warnings have been questioned by the players’ association which has said the game’s position remains positive with the sport not yet feeling the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic suffered by the winter codes. The Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA), led by chairman Shane Watson, met on Monday and will now
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9:00 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Tasmania has become the latest organisation to announce significant job losses in the wake of budget cuts stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. Twenty roles have been lost and while some come from positions that were vacant there have also been redundancies. The states are expected to take a 25%
Yuvraj Singh led the Indian batting charge with an 80-ball 84 © Getty Images The world champions are taking an early flight home from Nairobi. Australia had beaten India in seven straight ODIs prior to this to be the outright favourites coming into the first quarter-final of the ICC Knockouts, but a young Indian team
4:13 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Eoin Morgan has reiterated his belief that the T10 format could be the vehicle for getting cricket into the Olympics, given that its brevity could allow multiple matches to be contested in a shortened timeframe. Cricket has not featured at the Olympics since 1900, when Great Britain beat France in
9:12 PM IST Zimbabwe Cricket have voided the 2019-20 domestic season and will not declare winners in either the first-class competition or the 50-over tournament. Cricket in Zimbabwe has been suspended since March 18 and the country has been on lockdown since March 30. The stay-at-home order was due to end on May 3, but
8:44 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Gloucestershire have become the latest county to cancel the contracts of all their overseas signings, with Qais Ahmad and Andrew Tye‘s deals terminated. Ahmad and Tye were due to play for the club during the T20 Blast, with the Afghanistan legspinner also set to appear in the County Championship. The
3:33 PM IST The fate of the men’s T20 World Cup in Australia, slated for later this year, could yet come down to the likely absence of crowds rather than the challenge of getting teams into the country. The shape of the 2020-21 season in Australia remains in significant doubt, but there have been a
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
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 Lauren
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
10:30 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 an impact on the viability of Australia hosting the tournament in October and November as
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
10:55 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff From saying no to handshakes to playing matches in empty stadiums and eventually calling off almost every series or tour, here’s how the cricketing world was impacted by the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) outbreak. April 27News – Saliva or artificial substance? Five former quicks have their sayVideo – Tait: Legalised tampering
11:02 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 to reschedule a
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
3:37 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff 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 the
5:08 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ross Taylor has taken the Sir Richard Hadlee medal as New Zealand’s overall cricketer of the year on the final day of the NZC awards. Tim Southee was named Test player of the year after taking 40 wickets in eight Tests and Kim Cotton, who stood in the T20 World
8:18 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Former Bengal captain Subimal “Chuni” Goswami died in Kolkata on Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 82 and had been suffering from underlying ailments, including sugar, prostate and nerve problems. He is survived by his wife Basanti and son Sudipto. Goswami was among the rare sportsmen who played