11:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Usman Khawaja has sent a scare through the Australian World Cup camp after being struck on the helmet while batting against West Indies in a warm-up match at Southampton. Khawaja went to hospital for scans on his jaw after suffering a nasty blow from an Andre Russell bouncer during the
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3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards at Newport Nottinghamshire 239 and 42 for 2 need a further 397 runs to beat Hampshire 310 and 365 for 5 dec (Northeast 130, Rahane 119) A scorebook is cricket’s public record and its private music. In addition to being a bald statement of facts, the entries conjure a host
9:00 AM ET He may only have been in the role a few weeks, but Paul Farbrace has clearly seen enough. Farbrace, who started his new job as director of cricket at Warwickshire about six weeks ago, is so concerned about the performance of his new side that he is on the search for reinforcements
9:33 AM ET Finally, after nearly 30 months of being supervised by a court-appointed authority, the BCCI members are on track to regain control with the board elections scheduled for October 22. This significant decision was taken by the three-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) in Delhi today, nearly two-and-a-half years after it was appointed by
7:13 AM ET There was a moment in England’s final ODI against Pakistan, on a clear, bright spring afternoon in Yorkshire, that spoke to the sense of possibility and excitement that surrounds the team right now, a matter of days from the start of a home World Cup. When Jos Buttler stuck out a boot
6:05 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England’s decision to leave David Willey out of the final World Cup squad was a “consensus” decision rather than a unanimous one, national selector Ed Smith has revealed. Announcing the make-up of the squad to contest the tournament starting on May 30, in which left-arm seamer Willey missed out in
8:53 AM ET There will be no changes to India’s World Cup squad after Kedar Jadhav was declared fit to participate in the event. Jadhav’s position had become uncertain after he hurt his left shoulder during IPL 2019 while diving to save four overthrows in Chennai Super Kings’ match against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali
shares Billy Root drives through the off side © Getty Images Glamorgan 214 for 4 (Hemphrey 75, Root 53*) trail Derbyshire 378 (Reece 111, Hughes 82, Dal 64) by 164 runs On the day it emerged he had been suspended from bowling over a suspect action, Glamorgan’s Billy Root led a fightback with the
shares Wahab Riaz bends his back © ICC Pakistan have not quite hit the panic button full-on, but in adding Wahab Riaz to their World Cup squad two years after his last ODI and a year after Mickey Arthur had seemingly ended Wahab’s career, they have signalled growing alarm at the steep decline in
4:48 PM ET Mickey Arthur admits Pakistan’s fielding is a “real worry” going into the World Cup. Arthur, the Pakistan coach, believes the standard of fielding was the key difference between the sides in the ODI series between England and Pakistan. But he insists his side are “working damn hard” to improve and felt that