5:58 PM GMT In normal circumstance, Zak Crawley would probably be looking forward to his trip to Australia on the England Lions tour. And, in all truth, that’s probably where he should be right now. He’s 21, after all, and he has a first-class average that barely tops 30 with just three first-class centuries. Promising,
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9:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Gayle‘s love for cricket is still going strong. Having taken a break from the game towards the end of 2019, he’s back in action with the Chattogram Challengers in the BPL, and he says he will continue playing T20s for a while yet. “A lot of people still want
5:10 PM GMT James Anderson has been ruled out of the remainder of the tour of South Africa due to a left rib injury. Anderson, the leading wicket-taker among fast bowlers in Test history, sustained the injury on the final day of the Cape Town Test. With England pressing for victory, he continued to bowl
6:08 PM GMT Might we have just witnessed a changing of the guard? In the dying moments of the second Test, England had a slip cordon that included Ollie Pope (aged 22 and playing his fifth Test), Zak Crawley (aged 21 and playing his second), Dom Bess (aged 22 and playing his third) and Dom
9:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Rashid Khan and Haris Rauf turned it on in the new year playing for Adelaide Strikers and Melbourne Stars. First, the Afghanistan legspinner nearly turned the game, turning a simple Sydney Sixers chase into a very nervy finish Rashid Khan’s got a hat-trick on Josh Hazlewood’s birthday! #BBL09 pic.twitter.com/4alJfpWzCY —
1:41 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Tom Latham has been sidelined for a month after sustaining a fractured finger during the third Test against Australia at the SCG. The injury to his right little finger occurred when Latham, who was standing in as captain for Kane Williamson, took the catch to remove Marnus Labuschagne in Australia’s
James Anderson celebrates taking the wicket of Kagiso Rabada © AFP / Getty Images James Anderson is a fitness doubt for England’s third Test against South Africa, after a side injury limited him to two overs after lunch on the final day of their win at Newlands. Anderson struck early in the day to remove
8:53 AM GMT The ECB has confirmed that Rory Burns will miss England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka after suffering ruptured ligaments in his left ankle playing football the day before the Cape Town Test. Burns underwent surgery in London on Monday and is expected to be out of action for four months. That means
11:20 PM GMT Ross Taylor was overcome by emotion after becoming New Zealand’s highest Test run-scorer as he recalled a conversation at the start of his career with mentor Martin Crowe. Taylor moved to the top of the New Zealand list, overtaking Stephen Fleming’s tally of 7172, when he lofted Nathan Lyon down the ground
5:21 PM GMT Sreshth Shah January 7: India v Sri Lanka – 2nd T20I in Indore Our XI: Kusal Perera, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Avishka Fernando, Oshada Fernando, Isuru Udana, Dasun Shanaka, Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Saini NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about a late injury