News Yorkshire and England legend passes away after long battle with esophageal cancer Ray Illingworth, England’s Ashes-winning former captain, head coach and chair of selectors, has died at the age of 89, following a battle with esophageal cancer. As an offspinning allrounder, Illingworth’s professional career spanned a remarkable 32 years, from his debut for Yorkshire

News Other officials in the group deemed close contacts; second and third ODIs will go ahead as planned with new match officials The first ODI between USA and Ireland, scheduled for December 26, has been cancelled following a positive Covid-19 test among the crew of match officials. Though only one official has been infected, the

News The Victoria pace bowler has a fine record at the MCG and has been in superb form this season Victoria pace bowler Scott Boland has been handed a surprise debut in the Boxing Day Test against England with Australia taking a cautious approach over a minor leg injury to Jhye Richardson. “It’s huge,” Cummins

News “It is not yet finalised in which area he will work in, whether it is the High Performance, Under-19s or the senior team,” Nazmul Hassan said of Siddons The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has brought back former Australia batter Jamie Siddons to Bangladesh cricket – this time as batting consultant – over ten years

News Trying to keep strike, the batter ran one short off the penultimate ball of the first innings Hobart Hurricanes were hit with a rare five-run penalty in their Big Bash League match against Melbourne Stars at Bellerive Oval on Friday after batter Tim David was deemed to have deliberately run short in the last

News Sushant Modani credits coach for positive culture around squad after impressing on T20I debut At 16 for 4 in the powerplay, the prospect of a USA victory against visiting Ireland seemed highly unlikely. Which is why the stirring comeback produced by Gajanand Singh and Sushant Modani made victory so much sweeter. Singh, who was

News Analysis England would not ideally be turning to a batter who averages 11.14 in Tests this year – but their situation is far from ideal Zak Crawley was mapping out his route to Test cricket when he was still a teenager. At the time he told a local newspaper about spending the 2017-18 winter

News Analysis Last year’s Test surface was very good after life has been injected into the drop-in wickets England would give anything for one of their batters to replicate Alastair Cook‘s 244 not out at the MCG this week. But the chances of that happening on the new and improved surface appear as remote as

News Fast bowler keen to defy injury “stigma” ahead of likely MCG recall England were given “a kick up the bum” by Chris Silverwood, the head coach, in a post-match debrief after their 275-run defeat at Adelaide Oval, according to Mark Wood, who is set to return to the side for the Boxing Day Test

Big picture So, after 20 group-stage matches, an Eliminator and two Qualifiers, we’ve finally arrived at the culmination of this year’s Lanka Premier League. And it’s once again those two, Galle Gladiators and Jaffna Kings, vying for top spot, in a repeat of last year’s final. En route, Kings have pretty much trounced nearly every