7:50 PM IST India is set to retain the hosting rights for the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup while Australia have been asked to host the 2022 edition. In another significant decision the ICC also postponed the 2021 women’s ODI World Cup, scheduled in New Zealand between February 6 and March 7, to 2022. All

11:14 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Simon Taufel won the ICC Umpire of the Year award for five years straight – from 2004 to 2008 – but to some India fans, he’ll always remain the umpire who denied Sachin Tendulkar a hundred during the 2007 Trent Bridge Test. Taufel has spoken in detail about that decision

2:57 AM IST Danyal Rasool For all the headline-grabbing brilliance of Mohammad Abbas and Shaheen Afridi, or the feats of resilience from Shan Masood, there’s a good chance Pakistan wouldn’t have walked away from today’s play with quite as chipper as attitude had a certain punt not paid off. The decision to include Shadab Khan

8:11 PM IST Olly Stone is expected to be out of action for up to a month after sustaining a side strain. Stone, who was part of England’s training party ahead of the Test series against West Indies, sustained the injury during Warwickshire’s Bob Willis Trophy match against Northamptonshire last week. He subsequently underwent a

11:54 AM IST Having hoped that the 2020-21 Australian cricket season would escape the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it now looks likely the summer will be significantly impacted as a second wave hits Melbourne with concerns also hanging over New South Wales leading to extensive border and travel restrictions around the country. A lot

1:32 AM IST Danyal Rasool Shan Masood doesn’t like to think about the past, and on an England tour, you can see why. Four years ago, he was drafted into the Pakistan side as opener, and there was reason for cautious optimism. His career may only have been five Test matches old, all of them

5:27 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC is looking for a biosecurity manager for the women’s 50-over World Cup, as planning continues for an event around which there remains a fair amount of uncertainty. The World Cup is scheduled to take place in New Zealand in February and March 2021, but the ICC is yet

11:55 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ishant Sharma has played more Tests for India than any pace bowler bar Kapil Dev, and looks set to join him in the 100-Tests club if India’s tour of Australia, scheduled towards the end of the year, takes place. However, Sharma has played only 80 ODIs, the last of which

8:47 PM IST Big picture It’s almost like a normal English cricket summer, isn’t it? England lost the first Test yet again but came battling back in the series, something they do far more frequently than any other Test side. The batting order was rejigged regularly and debated in increasingly repetitive terms. Ben Stokes came

7:35 PM IST England will take a late decision on the balance of their XI to take on Pakistan in the first Test at Emirates Old Trafford on Wednesday, after Joe Root acknowledged there was still a slight doubt about Ben Stokes’ readiness to feature as a front-line seam option. Stokes produced one of the