5:38 PM IST Pakistan have England’s “fragile top order” in their sights as captain Azhar Ali said that the hosts’ batsmen haven’t looked confident since Alastair Cook retired in 2018. He called England’s bowling line-up “brilliant” but played down any sense of pressure handling an experienced attack. England have struggled to nail down a regular
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11:34 PM IST Pakistan Test captain Azhar Ali has said he and his team-mates made a pact during lockdown to keep their fitness intact so that the moment cricket could resume they would all be ready. The Pakistanis haven’t played any competitive cricket since the Pakistan Super League was halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic
9:50 PM IST Alzarri Joseph has downplayed the significance of the news that West Indies head coach Phil Simmons is self-isolating in his Old Trafford hotel room as a health precaution. Simmons left the West Indies’ bubble to attend a funeral on Friday, and has been self-isolating since then in his room on-site. He will
5:12 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Six of the ten Pakistani cricketers who had earlier tested positive for Covid-19 – Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Fakhar Zaman, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Hasnain – have returned negative results when tested again, Wasim Khan, the PCB chief executive, announced today, adding that Kashif Bhatti, Haris Rauf, Haider
11:46 PM IST Former West Indies fast bowler Andy Roberts has said that Oshane Thomas will be the first name he will “pencil” in for West Indies’ final Test squad for the three-match series in England, which begins in Southampton from July 8. Speaking to his former West Indies team-mate Michael Holding, Roberts also predicted
10:58 PM IST Danyal Rasool Ten Pakistan players who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week will not be part of the squad that flies out to Manchester on Sunday. The 18 players who tested negative, alongside the support staff who have been tested, will be the only ones to board the charter plane arranged
5:51 PM IST Shamarh Brooks thinks he is beginning to reap the rewards of his work with West Indies batting coach Floyd Reifer, and expects the time he has spent “thinking and visualising” because of the Covid-19-enforced break to help him in the Test series against England. Brooks, 31, made his maiden international hundred in
9:17 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ross Taylor does not believe there would be anything wrong in having joint winners in the one-day World Cup rather than using Super Overs to split the teams. It is almost a year since England and New Zealand could not be separated across 100 overs and the Super Over in
10:25 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Brathwaite XI 275 and 231 for 4 (Dowrich 56*, Brooks 66*) drew with Holder XI 193 and 1xx for 3 (Moseley 83*) Shamarh Brooks and Shane Dowrich both posted half-centuries Getty Images West Indies captain Jason Holder maintained a watching brief as the tourists’ three-day intra-squad match at Emirates Old
Kim Garth in action for the Perth Scorchers © Getty Images Australia’s coach Matthew Mott believes Kim Garth‘s switch from Ireland to a deal with Victoria should be the spur to help usher in women’s professional contracts for Irish cricket to stave off the risk of losing a generation of female talent to wealthier nations.
9:02 AM IST Mominul Haque plans as Bangladesh’s new Test captain have had to take a backseat due to covid-19, which has led to the postponement of eight matches across five series. The latest in the long list of series to be deferred is Bangladesh’s three-Test tour of Sri Lanka. Bangladesh has been badly affected
11:50 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Brathwaite XI 275 and 99 for 3 lead Holder XI 193 by 181 runs Raymon Reifer appeals succesfully for the wicket of Jason Holder Gareth Copley/Getty Images Left-armer Raymon Reifer seized his chance to impress with five wickets in the space of 11 balls on day two of the West
A general view of the Kia Oval © Getty Images Surrey and Middlesex are set to take the field for the first time this season at the Kia Oval in July, as county cricket inches towards a return in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The match is scheduled to be a two-day red-ball encounter,
9:24 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The Sydney Thunder offspinner Chris Green has been cleared to resume bowling after his action was found to be legal following biomechanical testing in Brisbane. Green was suspended from bowling in all Cricket Australia competitions for three months in January, with his offspinner and faster ball the deliveries under scrutiny,
Kraigg Brathwaite sets off for a run en route to a half-century in the intra-squad warm-up © Gareth Copley/Getty Images West Indies provided a double boost to all those looking forward to a return to something approaching normality as their preparations for the Test series against England moved up a level. As well as offering
Chris Gayle spent the 2019 CPL with Jamaica Tallawahs © Ashley Allen – CPL T20 / Getty Chris Gayle has opted out of the 2020 CPL a day before the players’ draft is scheduled to take place on June 24. The tournament this year is scheduled to take place in Trinidad & Tobago from August
7:30 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Nathan Coulter-Nile and AJ Tye have lost their state contracts with Western Australia while Cameron Gannon, the leading wicket-taker in the Sheffield Shield last season, has had his move confirmed. Gannon, who played T20I cricket for the USA last year having qualified through his mother’s side of the family, took
11:07 PM IST Salary bands in the Hundred are set to be cut by up to 20% for men’s players when the competition launches in 2021. Players were due to earn between £30,000 and £125,000 in the competition this year before the Covid-19 pandemic forced its postponement. Details are still being ironed out, but the