10:29 PM IST English authorities hoping to stage the first “bio-secure” Test matches since cricket shut down in the face of the coronavirus outbreak remain hopeful that the ICC will alter playing regulations to allow Covid-19 substitutions, according to Steve Elworthy, the ECB’s director of special operations. Earlier this month, the ICC’s cricket committee recommended
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2:44 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett and Joe Clarke are among the high-profile omissions from England’s enlarged 55-man training group. 18 bowlers returned to individual training last week with a focus on red-ball cricket, and a further 37 names have been added to that list. Players have not yet been named with
1:41 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Surrey have announced that head coach Michael Di Venuto will not be returning to the club, even if county competition is able to resume later this summer. Di Venuto, who is currently in Australia and was contracted to Surrey until March 2021, will instead be allowed to look for a
10:15 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff An ICC board meeting set to discuss the fate of the T20 World Cup and the international calendar instead turned into a discussion about the “issue of confidentiality” and ended with the setting up of an “independent” investigation into the matter. All actual items on the agenda – which included
12:16 PM IST Cricket Australia’s decision to bypass Perth for India’s four-match Test series this summer left the WACA chief executive Christina Matthews and chairman Terry Waldron fuming on Thursday. According to the West Australia cricket chiefs, they were promised a guaranteed top-line Test every year once Perth Stadium replaced the WACA Ground as the
3:09 AM IST The much-derided ownership model of most county cricket clubs has given them the best chance of surviving the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Surrey’s chief executive. With some now advocating English cricket adopts a similar finance model to that seen in the IPL, Richard Gould believes that it is the continuing predominance of
11:22 PM IST A five-day Lord’s final could be the centrepiece of an abbreviated 2020 county season which should also feature T20 Finals Day. Subject to government clearance and an ongoing improvement in the Covid-19 situation, ESPNcricinfo understands the ECB hope to start the domestic season in early August. The Championship is set to be
10:17 AM IST Australia allrounder Annabel Sutherland is hoping more than two months away from cricket will actually help improve her game as she looks to build on a rapid rise to the national set-up earlier this year. During a whirlwind few months, Sutherland was named in Australia’s T20 World Cup squad before she had
6:17 AM IST The ICC has told the BCCI it reserves the right to take away the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup from India, after the BCCI failed to secure a tax exemption for the tournament from the Indian government. In a flurry of blunt e-mails over the past two months, seen by ESPNcricinfo, the
5:11 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lankan fast bowler Shehan Madushanka has been suspended from all forms of cricket with immediate effect for alleged possession of illegal drugs, SLC announced after he was arrested by the police and later put in remand custody. Madushanka was allegedly in possession of a little over two grams of
Will the Gabba see a visit from India later this year? © Getty Images Queensland’s chairman Chris Simpson has confirmed the state association remains allied with New South Wales and the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) in questioning Cricket Australia’s chosen remedy for the financial effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, as all three organisations continue to
11:00 PM IST Fast bowlers need to build up their workloads “as sensibly as possible” in order to help mitigate against increased injury risk as they look to return from a prolonged period of rest, according to Surrey’s lead physiotherapist. Plans are being drawn up around the world for players to return to training after
8:40 PM IST The path for England’s return to international cricket has become clearer after the UK government published stage two guidelines for the resumption of elite sporting training. Stage two of competitive training sees players given exemptions on social-distancing rules where necessary as part of training, with the decision on when to move from
Big Bash crowds are a key income stream but may not be present next season © Getty Images Community cricket will take another blow as part of Queensland Cricket’s decision to follow Victoria in making severe cuts to the state association, as around half of 32 full-time positions made redundant are drawn from the areas
May 22, 2020 West Indies are on the verge of embarking on an unprecedented trip – full of challenges and unknowns, most of them outside the field of play. Yet it is a risk worth taking, feels Johnny Grave, the Cricket West Indies (CWI) chief executive. Grave, who has been busy sorting the risk assessment
4:28 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Stuart Broad has described thoroughly enjoying his return to bowling for the first time in more than two months, despite pulling up weary afterwards. England seamer Broad was one of 18 bowlers to return to individual training programmes at venues around the country last Thursday and Friday amid a slight
10:02 PM IST Even though the ICC has set guidelines for cricket in the pandemic period, Shakib Al Hasan, one of the game’s most experienced exponents, is hesitant about how cricket will be played in this new era. The game’s governing body released a string of protocols designed to minimize the risk of contracting Covid-19
5:33 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Kyle Coetzer has expressed concern that with no cricket in Scotland until at least August, the sport could well “start to be forgotten in some ways”, and cricketers who are not getting a chance to do what they do best might just move away from the game. “Any sport that