4:14 PM GMT Rahul Dravid has thrown his weight behind the idea of cricket’s inclusion in the Olympics, suggesting it would be “great for the game”. While Dravid, the director of cricket operations at India’s national academy, accepted the move had “its challenges”, he felt it would help the “expansion” of the game and suggested
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11:34 AM GMT England’s white-ball tour of South Africa, which starts at the end of the month, could be at risk of being called off unless Cricket South Africa’s Members’ Council tonight ratifies the interim board South Africa’s sports minister Nathi Mthethwa imposed on the organisation two weeks ago. Yesterday, the Members’ Council made public
3:52 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The Perth Scorchers have signed New Zealand batsman Colin Munro for the 2020-21 Big Bash League season. Munro recently missed out on an NZC contract, but remains a highly sought-after T20 cricketer. He is fifth on the ICC’s T20I rankings for batsmen, and his T20I strike rate of 156.44 is
7:25 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Heather Knight believes comments by former Football Association chairman Greg Clarke have highlighted that there is still work to be done for sportswomen to achieve equality with their male counterparts. Clarke resigned from the FA and from his role as FIFA vice-president this week after using a series of racist
Sourav Ganguly (BCCI president), Manu Sawhney (ICC chief executive) and Jay Shah (BCCI secretary) pose with the T20 World Cup © Getty Images Five years after hosting its last ICC event, the 2016 men’s T20 World Cup, India will be ready to stage the same tournament in 2021, the BCCI has stressed. Despite the country
2:40 AM GMT Alex Malcolm Joe Burns could have a final chance to keep his Test place after being named in the Australia A squad for the two warm-up matches against India alongside fellow Test specialists Tim Paine and Travis Head, but Steven Smith, David Warner, Pat Cummins, and Josh Hazlewood will not play any
12:01 PM GMT Bruce French has stepped down from his role as national lead wicketkeeping coach at the ECB to spend more time with his family. French, a former England wicketkeeper himself, has earned an excellent reputation as a specialist coach and joined the ECB in 2009. In that time, he has played a significant
11:31 AM GMT Rohit Sharma will not be part of the Indian contingent flying from Dubai to Sydney on Wednesday for the Australia tour. Sharma, who led the Mumbai Indians to their fifth IPL title on Tuesday, will instead return home to recover completely from the hamstring injury he suffered during the IPL. The Indian
3:06 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Gautam Gambhir, the former India batsman, believes it will be a “shame” and “Indian cricket’s misfortune” if Rohit Sharma isn’t considered for the full-time white-ball captaincy going forward. Gambhir was speaking on ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time Out soon after Sharma led Mumbai Indians to their fifth IPL crown, by beating the
7:20 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Here’s what the Mumbai Indians players said after they bossed their way to an unpresented fifth IPL title in Dubai Jasprit Bumrah: It means a great deal [us playing this tournament amid a pandemic]. As we know, it is a difficult time and everyone’s stuck at home. We are few