11:14 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Stephen Parry has left Lancashire after 16 years at the county, and will take up a coaching position at the Thunder, the Manchester-based women’s regional hub, over the winter. Parry, the left-arm spinner, is Lancashire’s all-time leading wicket-taker in T20 cricket, and won seven England white-ball caps between 2014 and
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10:02 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Mixing in hotel hallways, sharing food and not always wearing masks were the clear violations of strict Covid-19 isolation protocols in New Zealand that have led to stark warnings that more breaches could see the entire team being sent back. Sarfaraz Ahmed, Rohail Nazir, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Abbas, Abid Ali
6:57 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff T Natarajan, the Tamil Nadu and Sunrisers Hyderabad left-arm seamer, has been added to India’s ODI squad, just hours before the series opener, as cover for Navdeep Saini. According to a BCCI media release, Saini had complained of “back spasm.” Natarajan wasn’t in any of the white-ball squads in the
3:27 PM IST Karthik Krishnaswamy Big Picture The SCG. Australia and New Zealand played an ODI here in March, in eerie silence. It was to be the last bit of international action for four months. Cricket has been back for a while now, but the silence hasn’t gone away. On Friday, though, we could witness
Yorkshire have announced an investigation into Azeem Rafiq’s allegations of racism during his time at the club © Getty Images Yorkshire have committed to appointing a Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as part of the club’s efforts to “improve inclusion across all forms and levels of the game”. The club has recently been rocked
5:53 PM GMT Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna Nepal captain Gyanendra Malla, along with vice-captain Dipendra Singh Airee and
9:28 AM GMT Greg Barclay, the new ICC chairman, has declared the “unsustainable” global cricket calendar needs to be fundamentally examined and effectively rejected the suite of global events put to market by the governing body’s chief executive Manu Sawhney earlier this year. In a strong initial statement of intent, Barclay told ESPNcricinfo that the
11:13 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Colin de Grandhomme has been ruled out of the Test series against West Indies due to bone bruising to his right foot and left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel will miss the opening match as he continues to recover from a calf injury. Allrounder Daryl Mitchell, who made his Test debut against
2:40 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies (CWI) board director Dr Akshai Mansingh and Paul Slowe, the board’s security manager, will visit Dhaka and Chattogram next week to inspect the BCB’s bio-security plans and health protocols in the country. The news comes following CWI president Ricky Skerritt’s statement that West Indies are keen to
8:22 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff It’s almost inevitable now that the build-up to a Test series involving Australia will heavily feature Steven Smith and the challenge of bowling to him. Smith has himself spoken of the possibility that India will look to bowl persistently short at him – a method that brought Neil Wagner success