4:41 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Fakhar Zaman will miss Pakistan’s tour of New Zealand, with the Pakistan batsman dropped from the touring party as a precautionary measure after developing potential Covid-19 symptoms. The PCB announced in a press release that Zaman had tested negative as recently as Saturday, but after developing a fever while isolating

2:01 PM GMT Cricket West Indies president Ricky Skerritt has given Bangladesh hope that they will be touring the country in January 2021 with the “best available” West Indies team, also hinting that the three-Test series might be reduced to two keeping the players’ requirements in mind. According to the ICC’s Future Tours Programme, the

3:25 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sydney Thunder 4 for 116 (Knight 25, Carey 2-23) beat Hobart Hurricanes 9 for 115 (Moloney 39, Ismail 3-10) by six wickets A devastating spell of fast bowling from Shabnim Ismail helped Sydney Thunder secure a WBBL finals spot with a six-wicket victory over last-placed Hobart Hurricanes in the final

8:21 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sam Billings has described England’s white-ball set-up as among the “hardest sports teams to get into in the world” after making an encouraging start to his South Africa tour by striking a 43-ball half-century in the opening intra-squad warm-up match in Cape Town. Billings has been an irregular starter in

4:46 PM GMT India fast bowler Mohammed Siraj, who is in Australia with the Indian squads for the upcoming four-Test series, lost his father Mohammed Ghouse on Friday in India. Ghouse was 53 and lost the battle to a lung ailment. It has been learnt that Siraj won’t return for the last rites in Hyderabad

5:28 AM GMT PTI Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Former first-class cricketer Raghunath Chandorkar turned 100 on Saturday, becoming only the third Indian cricketer to complete a century of birthdays. Chandorkar played seven first-class games, from 1943 to 1950. He made his debut for Maharashtra against Bombay and played his last match for

6:18 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC has confirmed the World Test Championship (WTC) points system will be amended, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, to decide the finalists on the basis of the percentage of points earned from those they contested for. The ICC Board approved the recommendation by its cricket committee, headed by Anil

1:43 PM GMT In October last year he became Pakistan’s T20I captain. Since then he averages 55, striking at nearly 143 and has six fifties in 11 games. In May this year, he was appointed Pakistan’s ODI captain. Since then he averages 110.50 (ok, it’s only three ODIs and all against Zimbabwe). This month, Babar

5:32 AM GMT Sruthi Ravindranath Lisa Sthalekar feels the BCCI should have launched a full-fledged IPL-style women’s league “probably yesterday”. While the Indian board has been heading in the “right direction vis-à-vis women’s cricket, it has been “quite slow” to move on a women’s IPL, Sthalekar stressed, and “the fact that the India contracted players