1:23 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sarah Aley has announced her retirement, taking to Instragram to reveal she played her last match for Sydney Sixers in the WBBL at the weekend. The Sixers failed to make the tournament finals, which start on Wednesday, but they upset the top-placed Melbourne Stars by five wickets in their last
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2:01 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammed Siraj, who opted to stay on with the India squad in Australia after his father died recently in Hyderabad, said the words of his mother and captain Virat Kohli helped him make the decision. “In this situation, the way the whole team has supported me felt very nice,” Siraj
5:35 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff David Warner believes Rohit Sharma‘s absence during the white-ball leg of the Australia tour is a big loss for India, but at the same time, he also thinks the visitors have got enough in-form replacements. Sharma is currently recovering from a hamstring injury he suffered during IPL 2020 and has
12:40 AM GMT David Warner has depicted Joe Burns as his most effective opening partner since Chris Rogers, while conceding that the Australian selectors will ultimately have the final say over whether he is partnered by the Queensland batsman or the rising star of Victoria’s Will Pucovski. The selection chairman Trevor Hohns made an extraordinary
4:41 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Fakhar Zaman will miss Pakistan’s tour of New Zealand, with the Pakistan batsman dropped from the touring party as a precautionary measure after developing potential Covid-19 symptoms. The PCB announced in a press release that Zaman had tested negative as recently as Saturday, but after developing a fever while isolating
8:48 AM GMT Shashank Kishore Rohit Sharma is all but likely to partner Mayank Agarwal at the top of the order should he be cleared to fly for the Tests in Australia, but he isn’t too fussed over his batting position. “I will tell you the same thing that I have told everyone all this
7:24 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sam Billings has described England’s white-ball set-up as among the “hardest sports teams to get into in the world” after making an encouraging start to his South Africa tour by striking a 43-ball half-century in the opening intra-squad warm-up match in Cape Town. Billings has been an irregular starter in
Joe Root guides the ball through the off side © Getty Images Team Buttler 255 (Root 77, Billings 52, T Curran 4-25) beat Team Morgan 205 (Woakes 55, Gregory 3-18) by 50 runs England began preparations for their white-ball series against South Africa with a 40-over intra-squad game at Newlands in which all 23 players
7:52 AM GMT Rohit Sharma says he was “constantly communicating with the BCCI and Mumbai Indians” regarding the hamstring injury he suffered during the league stage of IPL 2020. Sharma was initially left out for the Australia tour but returned to action after a week to marshal Mumbai Indians to their fifth IPL title, leading
11:58 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The prospect of the opening Test between Australia and India remaining in Adelaide has received a boost with South Australia to come out of its strict Covid-19 lockdown three days early on Saturday. The state was put into a hard six-day lockdown on Thursday amid growing concerns around a Covid-19