2:12 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Former Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Warne has been reappointed as the team’s mentor and brand ambassador for IPL 2020. He will work with the head coach Andrew McDonald – the pair was former team-mates at Victoria – and captain Steven Smith. ALSO READ: IPL 2020 Team Preview: Combination questions for
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6:27 AM GMT Varun Shetty The Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) is set to launch its own T20 league – the Jharkhand Premier League – on September 15 this year. In an email accessed by ESPNcricinfo, several cricketers who are affiliated with the association were informed of their selection for the league and sent accompanying
11:00 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 142 for 6 (Eskinazi 33, Crane 2-20) beat Hampshire 123 (Alsop 43, Finn 3-27) by 19 runs John Simpson proved Middlesex’s hero as they beat Hampshire by 19 runs to revive their Vitality Blast hopes. The Seaxes’ keeper hit 30 quick runs from 19 balls to carry the
2:28 PM GMT Life as an understudy isn’t easy. Consider the example of Jimmie Nicol. Nicol, it might be remembered, was a Beatle for about 10 days in 1964. With Ringo Starr suffering from tonsillitis, Nicol, an accomplished session drummer, was drafted in to ensure the band fulfilled a raft of touring commitments. By all
6:15 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kolkata Knight Riders have roped in USA’s 29-year-old fast bowler Ali Khan as a replacement for the English seamer Harry Gurney. Gurney is scheduled to have surgery related to a shoulder injury, and has pulled out of both the IPL and England’s Vitality Blast last month. Khan’s signing will make
8:26 PM GMT There’s a key reason performances against Australia remain the barometer of health for England sides. It’s not just history or tradition. And it’s not just that there’s no such thing as a dead encounter involving a side which appears to have a love of beating England in their DNA. It’s that, however
1:43 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Former Sri Lanka seamer Tony Opatha has died from a stroke on Friday morning, at the age of 73. Opatha had played five ODIs, across the 1975 and 1979 World Cups, and was known as a domestic stalwart through the 1970s, playing for the Air Force – of which he
10:12 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Matt Renshaw has moved from the Brisbane Heat to the Adelaide Strikers on a three-year deal. Renshaw, 24, was the Heat’s second-highest run scorer last season with 348 at a strike-rate of 129.85 and has made himself into a middle-order batsman in the format who can also send down some
1:30 AM IST The tenth edition of the Big Bash League may be played in 10-game blocks in individual centres in a concession to the constraints of Covid-19, and may venture as far afield as Launceston and the Northern Territory as the tournament turns its expansive venues footprint into a series of contingencies to get
6:45 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Sarfaraz Ahmed was reluctant to play the final T20I during the England series. ESPNcricinfo understands the former captain was concerned that his tour would be judged on the basis of just one game. Mohammad Rizwan, Pakistan’s first-choice wicketkeeper, played every other game and had an impressive tour; his performance with