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
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1:57 AM IST Danyal Rasool For all the headline-grabbing brilliance of Mohammad Abbas and Shaheen Afridi, or the feats of resilience from Shan Masood, there’s a good chance Pakistan wouldn’t have walked away from today’s play with quite as chipper as attitude had a certain punt not paid off. The decision to include Shadab Khan
8:31 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Mithali Raj, India women’s ODI captain, believes the BCCI has done whatever it could to organise the women’s T20 Challenge alongside the IPL in the UAE. The scheduling of the three-team tournament from November 1-10 has drawn criticism from a number of prominent internationals like Alyssa Healy and Suzie Bates,
11:54 AM IST Having hoped that the 2020-21 Australian cricket season would escape the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it now looks likely the summer will be significantly impacted as a second wave hits Melbourne with concerns also hanging over New South Wales leading to extensive border and travel restrictions around the country. A lot
1:32 AM IST Danyal Rasool Shan Masood doesn’t like to think about the past, and on an England tour, you can see why. Four years ago, he was drafted into the Pakistan side as opener, and there was reason for cautious optimism. His career may only have been five Test matches old, all of them
5:27 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC is looking for a biosecurity manager for the women’s 50-over World Cup, as planning continues for an event around which there remains a fair amount of uncertainty. The World Cup is scheduled to take place in New Zealand in February and March 2021, but the ICC is yet
6:06 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The Perth Scorchers will be able to field a formidable top order in the Women’s Big Bash having secured the signing of Sophie Devine who has also been named captain. Devine joins Australia batter Beth Mooney as major acquisitions for the Scorchers as they look to reshape their batting unit
11:31 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 409 for 8 (Slater 172, Ackermann 94) and 150 for 3 (Ackermann 73*) beat Lancashire 322 (Vilas 90, Croft 63) and 236 (Davies 54, Croft 52*, Mike 4-39) by seven wickets Captain Colin Ackermann led the charge as unfancied Leicestershire completed a sensational seven-wicket victory with just eight
7:35 PM IST England will take a late decision on the balance of their XI to take on Pakistan in the first Test at Emirates Old Trafford on Wednesday, after Joe Root acknowledged there was still a slight doubt about Ben Stokes’ readiness to feature as a front-line seam option. Stokes produced one of the
7:07 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff England v Pakistan, 1st Test, Manchester Pro Tip This is the third Test being played in a row at Old Trafford, and we do expect some tough batting conditions. With two high-quality bowling sides, the batsmen may find runs a bit hard to come by. Pack your team with as
6:15 PM IST Ireland won the toss and chose to bowl vs England England will bat first in the third ODI after being sent into bat by Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie on a fresh pitch at the Ageas Bowl. Ireland’s top-order batting let them down in the first two matches, and Balbirnie said that he
6:26 PM IST IPL title rights holders Vivo are likely to pull out of this year’s tournament, ESPNcricinfo understands. The development follows a public outcry over the tournament’s association with Vivo, a Chinese company, following clashes at the India-China border in June. Neither the BCCI nor Vivo were available for comment on the issue. In
5:52 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Somerset 296 (Davies 81, Brooks 72) and 290 for 8 dec (Abell 119, Green 54) beat Glamorgan 131 (C Overton 5-38) and 166 (Cooke 82, J Overton 4-48) by 289 runs Surrey-bound Jamie Overton marked what could prove his farewell appearance for Somerset with 5 for 48 to complete
3:25 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Rohit Sharma doesn’t like comparisons between different captains, even if such observations come from his own team-mates. Sharma was responding to Suresh Raina‘s views on the Super Over podcast, where he said, “He [Rohit] is the next MS Dhoni for the Indian cricket team.” “Yes, I heard about that comment
1:53 PM IST Anjum Chopra, the former India women’s captain and current television commentator, believes that the BCCI has a plan for women’s cricket but wants the board to communicate its ideas more clearly. Speaking to PTI, Chopra said: “It’s not that the BCCI is not thinking about women’s cricket. I only think they need
12:07 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Yuvraj Singh has credited MS Dhoni for showing him “the real picture” over his international future when he was dropped from the ODI set-up for good in mid-2017, not long after travelling to the Caribbean where he struggled. Coming as it did soon after India’s runners-up finish at the Champions
10:41 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Australia’s home T20I series against West Indies has been postponed because of the Covid-19 situation, and that means the IPL now has an uninterrupted window – between September 19 and November 10 – as far as international cricket is concerned. West Indies were scheduled to play matches in Townsville, Cairns
8:49 AM IST Cricketing radical Trent Woodhill has quit as Melbourne Stars list manager to help Cricket Australia chart a way forward for the Big Bash League, in a mirror of his role advising the ECB on the launch of The Hundred. In a role assisting the head of the BBL, Alistair Dobson, with “global