10:28 PM IST Joe Denly looks set to pay the price for England’s four-wicket defeat in the first Test against West Indies, but Jos Buttler can expect to be given “the best chance to succeed” despite his own flat-lining Test form, as the head coach Chris Silverwood prepares to lift his squad ahead of Thursday’s
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9:55 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Tony Irish, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association, has stepped down from his role with immediate effect, and will return to South Africa for personal reasons. Irish, who is also executive chair of the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA), started his role at the PCA at the
5:30 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Jermaine Blackwood played the innings of the match to set up West Indies’ win in the first Test against England, but he might not have been in the side had Darren Bravo and Shimron Hetmyer not opted out of the tour. West Indies captain Jason Holder admitted he was “not
11:05 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff On the eve of the one-year anniversary of last year’s extraordinary World Cup final, New Zealand coach Gary Stead has admitted there remains a “numb” feeling about the result which saw England win on boundary countback. The match was tied across the initial 50 overs after Ben Stokes could only
1:27 AM IST Jason Holder has described the fourth day of the Ageas Bowl Test as “by far the best effort” he had seen from a West Indies team during his time as captain and “one of the best” in his tenure. West Indies took five wickets at a cost of just 30 runs at
1:19 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff BCCI president Sourav Ganguly expects Virat Kohli‘s side to register their second successive Test series win in Australia when they tour down under later this year. Ganguly stated the upcoming tour would be tougher than the previous outing of 2018-19 but said India also had the batting and bowling to
12:03 AM IST England 204 and 284 for 8 (Sibley 50, Crawley 76, Archer 5*, Wood 1*, Gabriel 3-62) lead West Indies 318 by 170 runs West Indies’ seamers took five wickets in the final 75 minutes of the fourth day to leave an enthralling Test match in the balance at the Ageas Bowl. England
12:55 AM IST West Indies head coach Phil Simmons hailed his bowling attack’s persistence and patience after five late wickets put his team into the driving seat against England. When Zak Crawley and Ben Stokes combined for a fluent partnership of 98, the bulk of which were made after the tea interval, it had looked
2:07 AM IST For years, whenever England have struggled in the field, the call has been for pace. Whether struggling for penetration at Chennai or Lord’s or Adelaide, the suggestion has always been that, with a bit more pace, England would be able to extract more life from the surface and have the ingredient their
12:54 AM IST Playing late. Kraigg Brathwaite pithily explained it is the best way to succeed in England as a batsman. Brathwaite’s 65 was his first half-century in 21 innings. On the previous tour of England in 2017, along with Shai Hope, Brathwaite was West Indies’ best batsman. But no one remembers what Brathwaite did