11:46 PM IST Former West Indies fast bowler Andy Roberts has said that Oshane Thomas will be the first name he will “pencil” in for West Indies’ final Test squad for the three-match series in England, which begins in Southampton from July 8. Speaking to his former West Indies team-mate Michael Holding, Roberts also predicted
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10:58 PM IST Danyal Rasool Ten Pakistan players who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week will not be part of the squad that flies out to Manchester on Sunday. The 18 players who tested negative, alongside the support staff who have been tested, will be the only ones to board the charter plane arranged
5:51 PM IST Shamarh Brooks thinks he is beginning to reap the rewards of his work with West Indies batting coach Floyd Reifer, and expects the time he has spent “thinking and visualising” because of the Covid-19-enforced break to help him in the Test series against England. Brooks, 31, made his maiden international hundred in
9:17 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ross Taylor does not believe there would be anything wrong in having joint winners in the one-day World Cup rather than using Super Overs to split the teams. It is almost a year since England and New Zealand could not be separated across 100 overs and the Super Over in
10:25 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Brathwaite XI 275 and 231 for 4 (Dowrich 56*, Brooks 66*) drew with Holder XI 193 and 1xx for 3 (Moseley 83*) Shamarh Brooks and Shane Dowrich both posted half-centuries Getty Images West Indies captain Jason Holder maintained a watching brief as the tourists’ three-day intra-squad match at Emirates Old
June 25, 2020 Jofra Archer has tested negative for Covid-19 © Getty Images Jofra Archer has tested negative for Covid-19 and will join the rest of the England squad at the Ageas Bowl on Thursday afternoon. More to follow… Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 © ESPN Sports Media
Kim Garth in action for the Perth Scorchers © Getty Images Australia’s coach Matthew Mott believes Kim Garth‘s switch from Ireland to a deal with Victoria should be the spur to help usher in women’s professional contracts for Irish cricket to stave off the risk of losing a generation of female talent to wealthier nations.
11:50 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Brathwaite XI 275 and 99 for 3 lead Holder XI 193 by 181 runs Raymon Reifer appeals succesfully for the wicket of Jason Holder Gareth Copley/Getty Images Left-armer Raymon Reifer seized his chance to impress with five wickets in the space of 11 balls on day two of the West
A general view of the Kia Oval © Getty Images Surrey and Middlesex are set to take the field for the first time this season at the Kia Oval in July, as county cricket inches towards a return in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The match is scheduled to be a two-day red-ball encounter,
© BCCI Cheteshwar Pujara has resumed training thrice a week at his academy in Rajkot, along with a few Saurashtra team-mates. In an ideal world, he would’ve been in England, playing for Gloucestershire in the county championship. However, Covid-19 threatens to leave Pujara without competitive cricket for 10 months, with India’s next Test assignment scheduled