Shipperd was told late last week that he would effectively be sacked with a year to go on his NSW contract, but he will see out the domestic season which has four rounds of the Sheffield Shield remaining plus the closing stages of the One-Day Cup where NSW are in contention for both finals. “Yeah,…
The final over of the day’s play in multi-day cricket, including potentially in Tests, will not end if there is a wicket. As per the new edition of the Laws of Cricket, which were announced by the MCC on Tuesday, the over will be completed, and a new batter will need to walk in. That…
The pair had not played the second half of the Ranji Trophy, which restarted after the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy. Thakur captained Mumbai in the October-November leg while Jaiswal was playing the multi-format series against South Africa. Mumbai qualified into the quarter-finals comfortably with 33 points, the highest in Group D…
Ollie Davies will join his brother Joel at Sydney Sixers in the BBL next season after leaving Sydney Thunder in the week the club is tabling a season review with Cricket New South Wales following a last-placed finish. Davies, 25, has signed a three-year deal with Sixers as a free agent in the player movement…
Pat Cummins admits aiming to be firing for Australia’s monster 2027 was part of why he pulled out of the T20 World Cup. Cummins has been plagued by a back injury since Australia’s tour of the Caribbean last July, with his only match since being the Ashes-clinching win in Adelaide. When the urn was retained…
Tony Pigott, the former Sussex and England seamer who went on to become the county’s chief executive, has died at the age of 67. Pigott debuted for Sussex as a teenager in 1978, and memorably converted his maiden first-class wicket into a hat-trick, against Surrey at Hove, having gone wicketless in his first two appearances….
Sussex will begin the 2026 County Championship on minus-12 points, and will face strict limits on their outgoings for the next three years, including player recruitment, after being placed in special measures by the England & Wales Cricket Board. The action was taken by the ECB after the club recorded an operating loss of £297,000…
Afganistan 184 for 6 (Rasooli 84, Zadran 36, Watt 2-32, Jarvis 2-57) beat Scotland 123 (Cross 21, Omarzai 3-14, Nabi 2-9) by 61 runs Batting first, fast bowlers Jack Jarvis and Mark Watt struck early to remove Gulbadin Naib and Sediqullah Atal, respectively. Rasooli, batting at No. 4, then got together with opener Ibrahim Zadran…
The GMR Group, the infrastructure conglomerate which co-owns Delhi Capitals, became Hampshire’s majority shareholders in late 2024, buying Rod Bransgrove’s stake in the club in a deal worth nearly £120 million. A few months later, GMR purchased a 49% stake in Southern Brave, the Hundred franchise based at the Utilita Bowl, from the ECB. Stubbs…
Eshan Malinga will miss Sri Lanka’s third T20I against England on Tuesday with a dislocated shoulder, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has announced. ESPNcricinfo also understands that the 24-year-old quick had been named in Sri Lanka’s World Cup squad – which is yet to be publicly announced by SLC – but now that is also in…