5:45 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner is focusing on keeping himself in the right space mentally because “moving from one bio-bubble to another is quite a challenge”. Warner has just arrived in the UAE from the UK, where he was part of Australia’s limited-overs series against England. “Bubble life is very
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8:44 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo West Indies and England women will take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter during their five T20Is starting on Monday. Stafanie Taylor, the West Indies captain, revealed on Saturday that the teams would perform the gesture and praised England
11:14 PM IST Raf Nicholson Close Raf Nicholson spends her days (and nights) researching the history of women’s cricket. Her thesis may or may not end up being titled “Cricket without the balls”. She is an England supporter, a feminist, and fanatical about women’s cricket, but will admit that Michael Clarke is hot stuff. She
8:59 AM GMT Craig McMillan will be unable to take up his role as batting consultant for Bangladesh’s Test series against Sri Lanka due to a loss in the family. McMillan was supposed to join the team later this month to prepare for the three-match series which would have been Bangladesh’s first assignment since the
2:38 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 188 for 4 (Balbirnie 99*) beat Gloucestershire 171 for 6 (Dent 55, Wagg 3-34) by 17 runs Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie fell agonisingly short of becoming Glamorgan’s sixth centurion in T20 cricket as he led his side to a well-earned victory over Central Group leaders Gloucestershire by 17
3:34 PM GMT Nagraj Gollapudi Close News editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo Gaurav Sundararaman One of the truest clichés of the IPL is that each edition is more open than the last one. For example, the playoffs spots in the last four seasons were determined only on the last day of
7:52 AM GMT Fears that advertisers will soon be beating down doors at Seven and Foxtel, requesting discounts in line with any reduction in rights from Cricket Australia, have helped send a very public broadcast dispute into a more private setting – at least for now. CA’s interim chief executive Nick Hockley and the New
7:29 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo England and West Indies Women plan to honour the Black Lives Matter movement when they begin their long-awaited T20I series next week. Heather Knight, the England captain, has been in contact with her West Indies counterpart, Stafanie Taylor, and the pair
3:09 PM GMT The 21 players travelling from the England-Australia limited-overs series into IPL will need to isolate themselves for a varying period ranging between one and six days once they land in the UAE on Thursday evening. For the group travelling to Dubai, comprising 18 players from six teams, the quarantine period would be
8:33 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting expects the UAE pitches to offer a bit of extra bounce in the first half of IPL 2020, despite being on the slower side. And that, he said, will suit the Capitals pacers’ style of bowling. The pitches in the UAE are expected to