2:33 PM IST Australia’s T20 captain Aaron Finch has stated his frank belief that the Big Bash grew too quickly in size when it leapt from a 10 to 14 match regular season either side of the most recent broadcast rights deal currently being disputed by the free-to-air rights holder Seven in the wake of
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3:05 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 157 for 3 (Cockbain 84*) beat Birmingham Bears 100 (Smith 5-16) by 57 runs Gloucestershire brushed Birmingham Bears aside by 57 runs in a truncated Central Group thrash in the Vitality Blast at Edgbaston. In a game shortened to 12 overs per side by rain, Gloucestershire piled up
10:43 PM IST Mark Wood has revealed his frustrations at being left on the sidelines for five Tests in a row in England’s bio-secure summer, but says he is working on a range of new tricks, including a wobble-seam delivery, to avoid being labelled an overseas specialist in Test cricket. Wood, who is back in
1:07 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Lucia Zouks, Tarouba Our XI: Andre Fletcher, Brandon King, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Roston Chase (vice-captain), Mohammad Nabi (captain), Imran Tahir, Chris Green, Keemo Paul, Naveen-ul-Haq, Javelle Glen NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury (or other
6:23 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Gary Stead has been reappointed as the New Zealand men’s head coach for another three years in a deal that takes him to the end of the 2023 World Cup in India. Stead took the job as Mike Hesson’s successor in 2018 and the team reached the final of the
10:17 PM IST Danyal Rasool England win the toss and bowl against Pakistan England have won the toss and, as in the second T20I, elected to field first. On a fresh pitch, Eoin Morgan’s side are unchanged, which means no opportunity for David Willey to make his mark after being omitted from England’s squads for
2:31 PM IST West Indies women have arrived in the UK ahead of their five-match T20I series against England at the end of this month, with captain Stafanie Taylor hailing the imminent return of top-level women’s cricket as a “great feeling”. The 18-member West Indies squad left Antigua on a charter flight on Sunday night
11:52 PM IST Cricket South Africa have been forced to postpone their Annual General Meeting scheduled for Saturday, during which they were due to elect a new president and at least two other board members. The postponement comes after CSA were due to meet with the country’s minister of sport, Nathi Mthethwa, who demanded to
10:06 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 177 for 6 (Delany 68, Lilley 50) beat Durham 147 for 8 by 30 runs Leicestershire chalked up their first win in this year’s Vitality Blast, half-centuries from Gareth Delany and Arron Lilley helping them on their way to a comfortable 30-run victory over a Durham side which
1:57 PM IST Shashank Kishore The postponement of the 2020 T20 World Cup may have thrown AB de Villiers‘ potential South Africa comeback off the rails for the moment, but he’s happy to be back playing cricket in some form after a strict five-month lockdown in South Africa because of Covid-19. In this period, the