6:36 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Vitality Blast champions Essex have re-signed Australia legspinner Adam Zampa for their 2020 campaign. Zampa will return for his third consecutive season at Chelmsford. Although Zampa missed 2019 Finals Day, having already gone back to Australia for the start of the domestic season, he was Essex’s leading wicket-taker during the
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11:02 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Vernon Philander, the South Africa allrounder, has announced his impending retirement from international cricket. The upcoming Test series against England will be his final outing for South Africa, bringing to a close a career that began in 2007. Philander, 34, has taken more than 200 wickets in his 60 Tests
4:30 AM GMT Cricket Australia is preparing for the possibility that play in the New Year Test in Sydney could be halted by smoke from the bushfires that are devastating vast areas of New South Wales. On Saturday, the BBL match between the Sydney Thunder and the Adelaide Strikers in Canberra was abandoned when heavy
5:41 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff India finished 2019 on a high, sealing a 2-1 victory over West Indies in front of a packed crowd playing a game that see-sawed this way and that. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were front and centre in a chase of 316, much as they have been all year in
Dec 21, 2019 Toss India elected to bowl v West Indies After having beaten the conditions in the must-win second ODI to keep the series alive, India won the toss in the decider in Cuttack, in whose last ODI India had to fight hard to defend 381. Virat Kohli didn’t mind not having to bowl
3:42 AM GMT Alex Malcolm New Zealand have confirmed reserve batsman and wicketkeeper Tom Blundell will open during the second Test against Australia on Boxing Day in Melbourne with Jeet Raval set to be dropped. Blundell opened for New Zealand in their single day practice match against Victoria XI at Scotch College in Melbourne on
8:25 PM GMT Danyal Rasool in Karachi Very little is worth toiling away on the Pakistan domestic circuit for, but, the fact this comes close is the greatest compliment you could pay Abid Ali. The start of an international career – that for the best part of a decade looked destined not to materialise –
12:06 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sophie Ecclestone and Amy Jones have made good ground on the ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings following England’s 3-0 series whitewash of Pakistan in Malaysia. Left-arm spinner Ecclestone claimed six wickets, including a haul of 3 for 21 in the first match, to move up three spots to No. 4
5:57 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The new season of the BBL is underway. This page will keep you updated with all the snippets of news from the tournament December 18 Finch calls for BBL DRS Cricket Australia chief executive Kevin Roberts said that he had taken heed of calls by Australia’s T20 captain Aaron Finch
5:30 PM GMT It may not immediately look like it but the situation in South African cricket is steadily improving, so much so that captain Faf du Plessis is upbeat ahead of the four-Test series against England that starts on Boxing Day. On the third day of the team’s training camp in Pretoria, du Plessis