6:58 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff On the eve of the 3TC tournament in Centurion, Reeza Hendricks has replaced Heinrich Klaasen as the Kingfishers’ captain after the organisers lent their support to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Kagiso Rabada was originally named captain of the side, but had to pull out following the death of
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12:08 PM IST Australian cricket’s state associations have knocked back a revised offer for annual grants from Cricket Australia, sending the chairman Earl Eddings and interim chief executive Nick Hockley back to the drawing board in terms of their calculations. Hockley’s predecessor Kevin Roberts was forced to resign due to a range of disputes over
Jofra Archer has been dropped for the second Test © Getty Images Jofra Archer‘s decision to go home between Tests “could have been a disaster” which cost English cricket “tens of millions of pounds,” according to Ashley Giles. Archer was dropped from the England side for the second Test against West Indies after it emerged
4:00 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Kashif Bhatti has been allowed to rejoin the Pakistan squad, after a scare over a positive Covid-19 Test in the UK had left him self-isolating from the rest of the squad as a precaution. The left-arm spinner had travelled to England with a delayed second batch of players who had
12:26 PM IST County chiefs remain optimistic spectators will be allowed to attend games in the Bob Willis Trophy. The Trophy, the replacement first-class competition to maximise the last couple of months of a virus-ravaged season, is set to start on August 1. While there are not currently plans to permit spectators, the sport is
1:14 AM IST In the course of his long and not-entirely-lustrous career, Joe Denly has come to know all about being on the outside looking in – he spent nine years and an England-record 384 matches in the wilderness, after all, before his remarkable recall in Sri Lanka in 2018. For the next two weeks
Joe Denly arrives at training on Wednesday © Getty Images Joe Denly’s Test career would appear to be over after he was omitted from England’s squad for the second Test at Emirates Old Trafford. Root, who missed England’s four-wicket defeat in last week’s first Test at the Ageas Bowl, returns to the fray as captain
6:18 AM IST All seven of Adelaide Oval’s Big Bash League fixtures will play out in prime-time evening slots in one of the standout features of a fixture that has lengthened the 10th edition of the tournament to 65 days to appease broadcasters while also creating more room to move amid the Covid-19 pandemic. One
9:47 PM IST Former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza confirmed on Tuesday that he is Covid-19 negative. His wife Sumona Haque, however, continues to test positive. Mortaza, who is also a Member of Parliament representing the ruling Awami League party, was diagnosed with the virus three weeks ago, on June 20. “I heard the results of
6:41 PM IST Thirty-one current and former domestic and international South African players including Makhaya Ntini, Vernon Philander, JP Duminy and Herschelle Gibbs, and five current coaches including Justin Ontong, the national fielding coach – all people of colour – have signed a letter in support of Lungi Ngidi and the Black Lives Matter movement