8:21 AM IST Barry Jarman, Australia’s 33rd Test captain, wicketkeeper and later ICC match referee, has died in Adelaide aged 84 after illness. As a highly skilled gloveman and punchy lower order batsman for South Australia, mentored by his predecessor Gil Langley, Jarman spent his entire cricket career at the front rank of Australian cricket,

1:33 AM IST If not on Thursday evening, then surely at some point on day two, Jason Holder would have wondered: was it wise to bowl first? Was it wise to ask his tired trio of fast men, as well as Roston Chase, all of whom had bowled long spells in Southampton to help West

7:24 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff On the eve of the 3TC tournament in Centurion, Reeza Hendricks has replaced Heinrich Klaasen as the Kingfishers’ captain after the organisers lent their support to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Kagiso Rabada was originally named captain of the side, but had to pull out following the death of

11:33 AM IST Press Trust of India Conducting a delayed season of the IPL, possibly in September-October, and other domestic tournaments, likely to be fewer than usual, will be topmost on the BCCI Apex Council’s agenda when the members meet via video conference on Friday to discuss the immediate future despite rising Covid-19 cases in

Discipline, but why no wickets? © Getty Images August 31, 2019. Kemar Roach will remember that day, the last time he took a Test wicket. And what a wicket it was: he forced a nick off the outside edge of India captain Virat Kohli in Jamaica. In fact, Roach nearly took a hat-trick. Nearly 11

© PCB Kashif Bhatti has been allowed to rejoin the Pakistan squad, after a scare over a positive Covid-19 Test in the UK had left him self-isolating from the rest of the squad as a precaution. The left-arm spinner had travelled to England with a delayed second batch of players who had initially tested positive

11:23 AM IST Australia have begun making plans for a possible limited-overs tour of England in September by naming an expanded 26-player training squad. As is the case with the enlarged squads required in the current climate there are some interesting names thrown into the mix. Some experienced players have been given hopes of a

1:14 AM IST In the course of his long and not-entirely-lustrous career, Joe Denly has come to know all about being on the outside looking in – he spent nine years and an England-record 384 matches in the wilderness, after all, before his remarkable recall in Sri Lanka in 2018. For the next two weeks

Joe Denly arrives at training on Wednesday © Getty Images Joe Denly’s Test career would appear to be over after he was omitted from England’s squad for the second Test at Emirates Old Trafford. Root, who missed England’s four-wicket defeat in last week’s first Test at the Ageas Bowl, returns to the fray as captain

6:17 AM IST The WBBL will feature a three-week hub in Sydney and won’t be played in Melbourne until late November as the tournament builds in contingencies to deal with the ongoing challenges posed by Covid-19. The tournament is scheduled to begin on the weekend of October 17 and 18 at Allan Border Field in