Cricket

Aug 12, 2020 Ravindra Jadeja will not be part of Chennai Super Kings’ six-day IPL conditioning camp, which is scheduled between August 15 and 20 in Chennai. The allrounder is the only prominent name missing from the camp for Indian players, and will feature captain MS Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu among others.

12:25 AM IST India batsman Karun Nair has successfully recovered from Covid-19 and is set to travel with the Kings XI Punjab team to the UAE next week to take part in the IPL. ESPNcricinfo understands Nair tested positive for the coronavirus recently, but tested negative on August 8. It is understood Nair went into

9:36 PM IST Danyal Rasool Pakistan fast bowling coach Waqar Younis dismissed suggestions that Pakistan would feel compelled to rest some of their fast bowlers due to the short turnaround between the first and the second Test. He said Pakistan hadn’t played Test cricket for five months, which meant the bowlers still had plenty of

1:04 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Rajasthan Royals fielding coach and former Rajasthan wicketkeeper Dishant Yagnik has tested positive for Covid-19, the franchise confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. He is currently in Udaipur and has been advised to get admitted to hospital for a 14-day quarantine. The Covid-19 tests for the Royals players and support

Aug 11, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff MS Dhoni hasn’t played any competitive cricket since the 2019 World Cup semi-final, and will turn 40 next year, but Kasi Viswanathan, the Chennai Super Kings CEO, believes he will still be part of the franchise for the 2021 and 2022 IPLs. “Yes. We can expect MS Dhoni to be

10:03 PM IST Yorkshire 264 (Thompson 98, Brook 62; Nash 3-20) and 278 (Bairstow 75, Lyth 50; Chappell 4-59, Carter 4-76) beat Nottinghamshire 355 (Moores 106, Mullaney 50) and 97 (Thompson 3-6, Olivier 3-29) by 90 runs The haze at Trent Bridge this morning reminded one or two spectators of Amritsar in the era when

10:08 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand are set for a full programme of international cricket during their summer with men’s tours by West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Bangladesh while a visit by the Australia Women’s team is also in the early stages of planning for the gap created by the postponed ODI World Cup

8:32 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff A week after Vivo’s exit, the BCCI has advertised for its replacement as IPL title sponsors for the 2020 season spanning between August 18 to December 31 this year. Interested parties would need to buy the bid document by August 14 with the BCCI announcing the wining bid four days

Aug 8, 2020 ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 33 for 0 trail Durham 180 (Lees 66, Gleeson 3-32) by 147 runs Lancashire finished on top at the end of day one of their Bob Willis Trophy match against Durham after bowling out the home side for 180 at Emirates Riverside. Richard Gleeson was the standout bowler

3:30 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 199 and 2 for 0 trail Derbyshire 408 (Madsen 103, Hosein 66*, Reece 56, du Plooy 55) by 207 runs A Wayne Madsen century, the 31st of the South African’s first-class career and his fifth against Leicestershire, helped Derbyshire establish an intimidating first-innings lead of 209 on the

12:49 AM IST Nottinghamshire 355 (Moores 106, Mullaney 50) lead Yorkshire 264 by 91 runs Even on a dull, faintly sultry morning with summer momentarily elsewhere Trent Bridge exerts a rare magic. Many have noticed this but few have ceased to treasure it. And thus it was again at eleven o’clock on the second day

6:57 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes will miss the rest of England’s Test series against Pakistan after withdrawing from the squad for family reasons. He is set to travel to New Zealand, where his parents live, next week and will not be available for the two behind-closed-doors Tests in Southampton. Stokes’ father Ged was

1:07 PM IST After almost a year of knocking on various doors for their grievances to be heard, 17 former BCCI scorers, whose services had been terminated last year without notice or any retirement benefits, have now formally approached their respective state association heads seeking some kind of relief. The scorers – those whose detailed

4:27 AM IST England 219 (Pope 62, Yasir 4-66) and 277 for 7 (Woakes 84*, Buttler 75, Yasir 4-99) beat Pakistan 326 (Masood 156, Azam 69, Broad 3-54) and 169 (Yasir 33, Broad 3-37) by three wickets A fighting century stand between Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler carried England to a stunning three-wicket victory over

7:00 PM IST The CWI board could be cut to nine members if governance reforms recommended by an independent task force are accepted. CWI currently features an 18-member board including 12 members put forward from the regional boards. But a task force, headed by Jamaican senator Don Wehby, has called for the board to be

11:40 AM IST Cricket Australia (CA) is willing to wait until much later into the year to make a decision on whether the Boxing Day Test against India will be staged at the MCG, and are currently “full steam ahead” with plans for the game to be in its traditional Melbourne home. The city is

3:49 AM IST Danyal Rasool After squandering much of the advantage following five sessions of gritty batsmanship, breathtaking pace, sublime swing and tricky spin bowling, you could have excused Pakistan’s spin-bowling coach for being somewhat miffed at what transpired in the final session. Mushtaq Ahmed, though, ever a ray of sunshine, insisted there was no

5:12 PM IST Cricket South Africa (CSA) has named international player Vaughn van Jaarsveld and domestic veteran Craig Alexander as whistle-blowers in the 2015-16 domestic T20 match-fixing saga, which saw seven players, including four former internationals, banned for between two and 20 years. Alviro Petersen, Gulam Bodi, Thami Tsolekile, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Ethy Mbhalati, Jean Symes