7:17 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff After admitting to the charges of corruption issued against him by the Afghanistan Cricket Board, including one that said he was trying to fix a match in the Bangladesh Premier League in 2019, wicketkeeper-batsman Shafiqullah has been banned from all cricket-related activities for six years. An ACB release on Sunday
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7:08 PM IST India 216 for 8 (Tendulkar 88, Fleming 2-39) beat Australia 215 for 7 (Taylor 105, Prasad 3-37) by two wickets Title sponsors have a huge recall value when fans revisit memorable classics. Many Indians still refer to the 1983 World Cup as the Prudential World Cup. The 1987 edition, which India hosted
11:55 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Suresh Raina feels Indian cricketers without BCCI contracts should get the opportunity to play in overseas T20 leagues. The 33-year-old Raina has played over 300 international games, but hasn’t represented India since July 2018; playing in overseas leagues, he feels, will especially help older players who are looking to make
5:52 PM IST In our #retrolive series, we rewind to classic matches to bring you the ball-by-ball commentary and match coverage as if the games were happening live, for the first time. This time, we turn the clock back to October 21, 1996, and to the India v Australia Titan Cup match in Bengaluru. Big
8:59 PM IST Bangladesh’s cricketers’ body is planning to hold elections soon after the country’s Covid-19 general holiday ends. The Cricketers’ Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) is likely to set an election date when all Dhaka Premier League cricketers come to the capital to play the 2019-20 season. Following an online meeting that the CWAB
3:03 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hales has claimed he has “matured as a player and away from the game” since his deselection from England’s World Cup squad after a failed recreational drugs test, and declared that the past six months have been “the best I’ve played in my career” as he presses his case
4:04 PM IST The chairman of the PCB’s independent disciplinary panel pointed to Umar Akmal‘s lack of remorse and a refusal to cooperate with investigating authorities as he detailed the reasoning behind the three-year ban on the Pakistan cricketer, which will keep him out of the game – as a player and otherwise – till
4:13 PM IST Australia pace bowler Megan Schutt has called on the women’s game to be treated fairly when it comes to potential cuts in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic but accepts it is inevitable that the impact will be felt. The domestic set-up across Australian cricket looks set to come under pressure amid
10:18 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff A senior BCCI official has said that India would be willing to undertake a two-week quarantine period in Australia later this year if it meant the tour could proceed. India are due to play four Tests and three ODIs in December and January, a visit that could cost Cricket Australia
12:57 AM IST Richard Gould, Surrey’s chief executive, has cast further doubt on the ECB’s claim that the inaugural season of the Hundred would have proved profitable, had it not been postponed until 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Gould – whose county voted against the creation of the new competition when it was first
1:06 AM IST Durham and Edgbaston have emerged as further options as international venues for England this summer. At present Emirates Old Trafford (Manchester) and The Ageas Bowl (Southampton) are the favoured options as the ECB look into achieving something close to a bio-secure environment which would allow them to fulfil their international programme of
5:03 PM IST Keshav Maharaj has put himself forward as a wildcard candidate to take over as South Africa’s Test captain. The position remains unfilled following Faf du Plessis stepping down in February, even though South Africa have appointed Quinton de Kock as their white-ball captain. Maharaj has not been among those named as likely
May 6, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies’ current T20I team is better than the one that won the World T20 four years ago in India. So says Dwayne Bravo, who overturned his international T20 retirement in December to strengthen West Indies’ bid to defend their title. Speaking to ESPNcricinfo’s Alexis Nunes, Bravo was thrilled at
11:06 PM IST Valkerie Baynes Women’s cricket risks being sidelined amid the clamour to schedule matches at the small number of bio-secure venues in England and Wales, should the sport get underway this summer in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Clare Connor, the ECB’s managing director of women’s cricket, made the frank admission on
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
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