11:22 PM IST “We know we’re not the finished article, we know we’ve got challenges and hurdles to overcome and things that we want to get better at if we are going to be that No. 1 team in the world.” Joe Root. August 20, 2020. Here we look at the progress England have made
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3:58 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff MS Dhoni was an important illustration of the spirit of new India and a “phenomenon”, prime minister Narendra Modi has said in a letter of appreciation to the cricketer. Dhoni, who retired from international cricket on August 15, responded on Twitter by saying: “An Artist, Soldier and Sportsperson what they
8:25 AM IST Not always being able to select the best players for international series and taking more top-level stars out of the domestic competitions are among the compromises Australia head coach Justin Langer believes may need to be made to keep the game going through Covid-19. Langer will head to the UK on Sunday
11:41 PM IST Jamaica Tallawahs 160 for 5 (Ali 47*, Phillips 44, Williams 2-32) beat St Lucia Zouks 158 for 7 (Chase 52, Mujeeb 2-25) by five wickets Against a Tallawahs batting line-up boasting Glenn Phillips, Rovman Powell, Andre Russell, Asif Ali and Carlos Brathwaite, St Lucia Zouks’ 158 for 7 was never going to
3:49 PM IST Kugandrie Govender, Cricket South Africa’s chief commercial officer, has been appointed acting CEO following Dr Jacques Faul’s resignation this week. Govender is the first woman to take on the role of heading the game’s governing body in South Africa. No term limit has been set on Govender’s role as CSA continues to
6:14 AM IST Aaron Finch does not believe that the postponement of this year’s T20 World Cup until 2022 has to derail Australia’s planning even though the next tournament on the horizon will now be staged in India next year. Australia had enjoyed a year of considerable T20I success from February 2019 until cricket stopped
Dan Lawrence made a fifty in Essex’s run chase © Getty Images Essex 140 (Garton 5-26) and 199 for 7 (Lawrence 60, Garton 4-50) beat Sussex 194 (Salt 57, Porter 5-60) and 141 (Rawlins 40, Harmer 5-54) by three wickets Essex are on course to reach the final of the Bob Willis Trophy after a
4:32 PM IST Graeme Smith, South Africa’s director of cricket, has advocated for a new method to adjust targets in rain-affected matches and argued that the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method is at least two decades out of date. In a Webinar hosted by the financial advisor network PSG, Smith said increased scoring rates, especially in T20
2:09 AM IST England’s Test captain, Joe Root, believes the issue of bad light “needs to be addressed” so the game can avoid the farcical scenes witnessed at the Ageas Bowl in recent days. Only 134.3 overs were possible in the second Test – 38.1 of them on the final day – as a combination
11:20 PM IST 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 Krish Persaud and Manish Patel, the American-based owners of Jamaica Tallawahs