Cricket

2:04 AM GMT What’s the latest situation at Cricket Australia? The majority of staff, approximately 200, will be stood down next week on 20% of their salary or the equivalent of the Australian government’s JobKeeper payment of A$1500 per fortnight, which was introduced to help companies during the pandemic, until the end of the financial

6:23 PM GMT Cricket has never faced a crisis quite like this. With much of the world still deep in Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns, administrators are facing an unprecedented situation. At some point in the near future, sport will resume but in what form, when and where exactly, no-one knows. On Thursday, the chief executives of

3:35 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Gayle will represent St Lucia Zouks in the 2020 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season, after Jamaica Tallawahs chose not to retain him. In February, the St Lucia franchise was purchased by KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited, Kings XI Punjab’s parent company, and appointed Andy Flower as head coach. Gayle

2:35 AM GMT Stood down staff at Cricket Australia may find themselves working at Woolworths after the chief executive Kevin Roberts approached the supermarket giant and cricket sponsor about temporary work opportunities amid the coronavirus pandemic. Roberts, who has maintained there is a united front in cricket about cash-saving decisions including mass staff stand downs

5:43 PM GMT Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom is confident that some international cricket will be played this summer, but has conceded that New Zealand’s scheduled tour to Europe in June looks “fairly doubtful”. Deutrom said that his board will “make every endeavour to be as flexible as we can” to find dates in

© Getty Images In a proactive measure, the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has asked players across the world to remain alert to corrupt elements attempting to take advantage of the current global lockdown by trying to contact them via social media. The ACU believes what might seem to be an “innocent” message from an “unsolicited

Apr 20, 2020 A new franchise in the USA, a fully-fledged women’s league and maintaining distinctive local flavour are among the keys to ensuring the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is the second-best T20 league in the world, after the IPL, according to chief operations officer Pete Russell. Seven seasons in, the 2020 CPL is shaping

2:14 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Umar Akmal could learn his cricketing fate on April 27, with that date set for his hearing in front of the Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan. Both the player and the PCB have been required to attend the hearing, which is scheduled at the National Cricket

12:23 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff World cricket will start trying to make sense of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the international calendar when the ICC and its member boards get together in a conference call on Thursday. CEOs of the 12 Full Members and representatives from three Associate boards will be on the

3:07 AM GMT Josh Hazlewood has indicated Australia’s players want full transparency from Cricket Australia in order to better understand the governing body’s coronavirus cash crisis before taking pay cuts as their part of the bargain to keep the game afloat. Hazlewood admitted he was as surprised as anyone last week when CA made the

8:05 AM GMT Shashank Kishore Dav Whatmore, the 1996 World Cup winning coach with Sri Lanka, is set to continue working with less-fancied teams on the Indian domestic circuit. He was at the helm when Kerala entered their first-ever Ranji Trophy semi-finals in 2018-19, and now, after a three-year stint with them, he takes charge

Kevin Roberts speaks at a Cricket Australia event © Getty Images A tense balance of power between Cricket Australia and its state association owners has been exposed ” target=”_blank”>in the scramble to save money amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the states pushing for a greater explanation of the board’s finances before agreeing to deep cuts

The rise of Marnus Labuschagne into the prolific Test No. 3 who dominated the Australian home summer even surprised some who had seen him close at hand. In five Tests against Pakistan and New Zealand, Labuschagne scored 896 runs at 112.00 with four centuries including a maiden double at the SCG. It followed his dramatic

5:00 PM GMT Adil Rashid may have no current plans to put his name into Test contention, but he has backed his friend and fellow spinner, the “world-class” Moeen Ali, to make a successful return when England are able to resume international competition. After nine months out of the Test side, Ali has now described

7:56 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Moeen Ali has indicated that he is ready to return from his self-imposed Test exile as soon as the coronavirus outbreak allows. Moeen has not played a Test since being dropped during last summer’s Ashes. He subsequently lost his Test central contract (receiving a white-ball only deal) and opted out

4:39 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff On this day in 2008, the IPL kicked off and a 26-year old Brendon McCullum lit up the opener with a breathtaking 73-ball 158 not out for Kolkata Knight Riders against Royal Challengers Bangalore. The ferocity of the assault was such that his score has been bettered only once –

2:10 PM GMT Danyal Rasool PCB chairman Ehsan Mani expressed Pakistan’s disappointment with the ICC’s decision to split points for an ICC Women’s Championship series between India and Pakistan that went unplayed after the BCCI were unable to obtain permission from the Indian government to go ahead with the series. The decision meant India qualified

12:07 PM GMT Caribbean Premier League (CPL) organisers hope that the tournament can still take place as scheduled in September, but plans are being developed to stage it behind closed doors, without overseas players, or in a “social-distancing stadium” in Barbados if required. With the Caribbean in lockdown and attempts to stop the spread of