11:39 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer is on course for a comeback in England’s Test series against West Indies in June, but would appear to have been ruled out of any involvement in this season’s IPL, following a further MRI scan on the elbow stress fracture that curtailed his involvement in the recent tour
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3:04 AM GMT When Liton Das crossed 158 in the third ODI against Zimbabwe on Friday with the crowd in Sylhet having a party, Bangladesh’s highest individual score in ODIs was his property now. He got a big hug from Tamim Iqbal, the man who had set the record just two days ago. But it
4:44 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Wood, Hampshire’s left-arm seamer, has announced his retirement from red-ball cricket at the age of 29 to focus on prolonging his limited-overs career. Wood has taken 105 wickets at 30.22 across a 43-match first-class career, but has regularly been dogged by injuries. He will represent Hampshire in the T20
11:40 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Leicestershire have announced the signing of Janneman Malan as their main overseas player for the 2020 season. Malan, who was the leading domestic run-scorer in this season’s Mzansi Super League, became the first player to score a duck on ODI debut and follow it up with a century in his
5:45 PM GMT Even as COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) continues to cripple all walks of life across the world, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has said the IPL is “on” and that the board is taking all necessary precautions for the smooth conduct of cricket’s most lucrative tournament, which begins on March 29. Some of those precautionary
5:57 PM GMT The miserable circumstances of England’s elimination from the Women’s T20 World Cup – knocked out of their semi-final at Sydney without a ball being bowled, on the same day that Australia scraped through in a later match at the same venue – bring to mind other high-profile occasions when cricket’s attempts to
10:43 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer has signed a two-year contract extension with Sussex that will keep him at Hove until the end of the 2021 season. Though hugely in demand in all formats of the game, at international level and in T20 leagues, Archer says he retains a special bond with Sussex, the
3:00 AM GMT Tamim Iqbal‘s record-breaking 158 against Zimbabwe eased some of the pressure that had been on him since his return to international cricket from a self-imposed hiatus last year. During the course of the innings, Iqbal also became the first Bangladesh batsman to reach 7000 ODI runs, apart from breaking his own record
4:49 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The Sindh provisional government has ruled out moving PSL games out of Karachi amid fears of the coronavirus outbreak. According to reports, there have been five cases of the virus in Pakistan so far, including three in Federal Areas and two in Karachi, where a school has been shut down
10:30 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jaydev Unadkat broke several records on the way to match-winning returns of 7 for 56, dragging Saurashtra out of a 50-50 situation in their semi-final against Gujarat at home in Rajkot to a 92-run win and a place in the final against Bengal. In an absorbing contest that went down