Cricket

12:25 AM IST India batsman Karun Nair has successfully recovered from Covid-19 and is set to travel with the Kings XI Punjab team to the UAE next week to take part in the IPL. ESPNcricinfo understands Nair tested positive for the coronavirus recently, but tested negative on August 8. It is understood Nair went into

9:36 PM IST Danyal Rasool Pakistan fast bowling coach Waqar Younis dismissed suggestions that Pakistan would feel compelled to rest some of their fast bowlers due to the short turnaround between the first and the second Test. He said Pakistan hadn’t played Test cricket for five months, which meant the bowlers still had plenty of

12:52 PM IST Australian cricket’s grassroots participation numbers are both growing and shrinking at the same time. If that sounds nonsensical at first, on further inspection it is a reflection of the fact that, year by year, Cricket Australia is trying to be more honest with itself about the amount of people actually playing the

11:41 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Kent have dropped 19-year-old batsman Jordan Cox from the squad for their next Bob Willis Trophy match, after he broke social-distancing protocols by agreeing to a request for a photo with some young fans. Cox became the first player born in the 21st century to hit a first-class hundred on

8:43 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Essex 262 (Khushi 66, Wheater 52) and 261 (Virdi 4-85, Finch 4-38) beat Surrey 187 (Jacks 70, Porter 4-53, Harmer 6-67) and 167 (Harmer 8-64) by 169 runs Simon Harmer spun his way to match figures of 14 for 131 as county champions Essex beat Surrey by 169 runs

9:33 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand are set for a full programme of international cricket during their summer with men’s tours by West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Bangladesh while a visit by the Australia Women’s team is also in the early stages of planning for the gap created by the postponed ODI World Cup

11:00 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Derbyshire 408 (Madsen 103, Hosein 66*, Reece 56, du Plooy 55) and 12 for 1 beat Leicestershire 199 (Dearden 70, Melton 4-22 and 220 (Critchley 6-73) by nine wickets Legspinner Matt Critchley picked up career-best figures of 6 for 73 as Derbyshire extended their lead at the top of

9:14 PM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka’s domestic cricket season resumed on Monday with runs from Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews, almost five months after it was suspended due to Covid-19. Mendis hit 132 not out for Colombo Cricket Club and Mathews made 80 not out for Colts Cricket Club, in separate ‘Super Eights’

11:54 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Warwickshire 230 for 8 (Lamb 65) lead Gloucestershire 210 (Hannon-Dalby 6-33) by 20 runs Matt Lamb top-scored with 65 as Warwickshire were made to battle hard for a first-innings lead on the second day of the Bob Willis Trophy match with Gloucestershire at the Bristol County Ground. Going in

12:09 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Somerset 166 (Sanderson 5-28) and 222 (J Overton 68, C Overton 53, Sanderson 4-61, Berg 4-64) beat Northamptonshire 67 (C Overton 4-12, Davey 3-23) and 154 (Vasconcelos 52, J Overton 4-26, Brooks 4-40) by 167 runs A maximum of 120 overs was deemed a sensible first-innings limit to protect

6:57 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes will miss the rest of England’s Test series against Pakistan after withdrawing from the squad for family reasons. He is set to travel to New Zealand, where his parents live, next week and will not be available for the two behind-closed-doors Tests in Southampton. Stokes’ father Ged was

1:07 PM IST After almost a year of knocking on various doors for their grievances to be heard, 17 former BCCI scorers, whose services had been terminated last year without notice or any retirement benefits, have now formally approached their respective state association heads seeking some kind of relief. The scorers – those whose detailed

4:06 AM IST In another era, an era in which England didn’t have one of the best all-rounders or swing bowlers in their history, Chris Woakes may have played a hundred Tests and be something of a household name. He’s won more World Cups than Sir Ian Botham, after all. He’s made more Test centuries

7:31 PM IST The CWI board could be cut to nine members if governance reforms recommended by an independent task force are accepted. CWI currently features an 18-member board including 12 members put forward from the regional boards. But a task force, headed by Jamaican senator Don Wehby, has called for the board to be

11:40 AM IST Cricket Australia (CA) is willing to wait until much later into the year to make a decision on whether the Boxing Day Test against India will be staged at the MCG, and are currently “full steam ahead” with plans for the game to be in its traditional Melbourne home. The city is

3:49 AM IST Danyal Rasool After squandering much of the advantage following five sessions of gritty batsmanship, breathtaking pace, sublime swing and tricky spin bowling, you could have excused Pakistan’s spin-bowling coach for being somewhat miffed at what transpired in the final session. Mushtaq Ahmed, though, ever a ray of sunshine, insisted there was no

7:50 PM IST India is set to retain the hosting rights for the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup while Australia have been asked to host the 2022 edition. In another significant decision the ICC also postponed the 2021 women’s ODI World Cup, scheduled in New Zealand between February 6 and March 7, to 2022. All

Aug 6, 2020 Fabian Allen has been ruled out of this month’s Caribbean Premier League after missing his flight from Jamaica to Barbados. Players, staff and officials were required to arrive in Trinidad two weeks before the start of the tournament on August 18, with a number of charter planes organised to fly them to