1:35 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Having kicked off her ODI career with a fifty on debut against England in 2011, the knock should have given then 18-year-old Veda Krishnamurthy the required confidence to achieve greater heights. Her attacking batting style meant she was entrusted with the role of a finisher, but the early success lulled
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2:29 AM IST The friendship and rivalry of Viv Richards and Ian Botham will be commemorated in a new series trophy when England next face West Indies in Test cricket, after the ECB and CWI agreed that the Wisden Trophy will be retired at the end of this week’s third Test. The new Richards-Botham Trophy
9:57 PM IST Jos Buttler remains a “vital” member of the England team, according to his captain, Joe Root, and the national selector, Ed Smith. Buttler’s position has started to come under scrutiny after a year in which he has averaged 21.26 from 12 Tests. But both Root and Smith have defended Buttler’s longer-term record
2:20 PM IST Australian cricket’s Indigenous leader, Justin Mohamed, believes that Cricket Australia’s work to improve Aboriginal involvement in the game will not have lasting effects until representation extends to the management office and the boardroom as well as on the playing field. Speaking to ESPNcricinfo in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement
12:24 AM IST Sir Andrew Strauss, the former England captain, is confident that the cricket-loving public will get behind next week’s #RedForRuth day at Emirates Old Trafford and help raise awareness and funds for the Ruth Strauss Foundation, even though the Covid-19 pandemic means that no spectators will be present to emulate last year’s inaugural
10:36 PM IST Roddy Estwick, the West Indies assistant coach who mentored Jofra Archer as a young cricketer in Barbados, has encouraged the player to “lay low, focus on the game and on people you can trust”, after hearing of the racial abuse he suffered on social media while isolating in the team hotel during
2:31 PM IST A team has been suspended from a pop-up T10 league pending an anti-corruption investigation, after concerns over suspicious behaviour meant consideration was given to abandoning one of their fixtures at the innings break. Limassol Gladiators, one of the five teams in the European Cricket Series Cyprus, have been suspended following their match
5:39 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Australia women’s captain Meg Lanning will return to the Melbourne Stars for the next WBBL season following three years with the Perth Scorchers. The move had been expected for some time but the contracting embargo for the tournament was only lifted last Friday due the disrupted off-season with Covid-19. Lanning
Play 00:56 West Indies lost game during day-four Broad spell – Simmons Chris Silverwood faces an intriguing test of his management style this week as England pick a side they hope can win the third Test against West Indies. In many ways Silverwood, the England coach, is in an enviable position. As things stand, he
12:05 PM IST Freed from uncertainty around the postponement of the Twenty20 World Cup, Cricket Australia’s interim chief executive Nick Hockley is confident of resolving the financial impasse with the governing body’s state association owners that ultimately played a large part in costing predecessor Kevin Roberts his job. While the dissenting associations of New South