After several days of impasse, a group of Pakistan’s leading players including captain Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan agreed to sign the PCB’s central contracts – though only after successfully negotiating changes in several clauses. The group signed the contracts nearly a week after receiving them and just before flying out for the

KL Rahul has been drafted in as the 16th member of India’s squad that will tour Zimbabwe for three ODIs between August 18 and 22. Rahul will also captain the squad, with Shikhar Dhawan, who was earlier set to lead, now named his deputy. Rahul’s inclusion follows a clearance from BCCI’s medical team that has

Ross Taylor has opened up about how he and other players have faced racism in New Zealand cricket. In his new autobiography Ross Taylor Black & White following his retirement from international cricket earlier this year Taylor, who has Samoan heritage on his mother’s side, wrote the game in New Zealand was “a pretty white

Yorkshire 257 for 9 (Duke 87, Tattersall 55) beat Glamorgan 234 (Carlson 64, Shutt 4-46 ) by 23 runs Yorkshire took a significant step towards their aim of Royal London Cup glory by knocking over defending champions Glamorgan in a bowler-dominated affair at Sophia Gardens, winning by 23 runs. The Vikings won in Cardiff for

Eoin Morgan and Jason Roy are among 11 England players to have signed on for CSA’s new T20 league, joining – as ESPNcricinfo reported last week – Jos Buttler, Liam Livingstone and Moeen Ali. English representation is the largest among the direct overseas signings the league has made so far. With 10 players, including Niroshan

Australia coach Andrew McDonald believes they can avoid situations like Ben Stokes‘ ODI retirement and Trent Boult‘s New Zealand contract release by managing their multi-format players carefully. Boult’s decision to walk away from his NZC contract on Wednesday was another example of the challenge national teams face with multi-format international players, especially when they are

New Zealand Cricket has agreed to release Trent Boult from his central contract after the fast bowler requested to spend more time with his family and to make himself available for T20 leagues with his international career now to be “significantly reduced”. Boult, 33, had held several conversations with NZC prior to Wednesday’s announcement. The

Rudi Koertzen, the former South African umpire who was part of the ICC’s elite panel, has died aged 73. He died in a car accident while driving from Cape Town to Despatch in Eastern Cape in South Africa, where he lived with his family. Koertzen’s son, Rudi Koertzen jr, confirmed the news. “He went on

The six franchises in the league – owned by Reliance Industries, Kolkata Knight Riders, Capri Global, GMR, Lancer Capital and Adani Sportsline – will exercise their “direct acquisition” rights to acquire these players, who they have been in discussions with. No cricketers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan feature in the league’s plans at this stage,

It might just be official, Australia are invincible. Even when they seemed cursed, the all-conquering Australian Women’s cricket team added the first Commonwealth Games gold medal for their sport to the T20I and ODI World Cups already in their collection with a pulsating nine-run win against India at Edgbaston on Sunday. In an inauspicious start