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Match: Essex vs Derbyshire Date: 13 May 2021 Place (venue): County Ground, Chelmsford Tournament: County Championship 2021 Format: 4-day match Caption: Will Derbyshire tackle the challenge of Essex to lift themselves from the bottom of the table in Group A? Key Stats: Simon Harmer who has taken 21 wickets in 4 matches for Essex and […]
Match: Durham vs Worcestershire Date: 13-16th May 2021 Place (venue): Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street Tournament: County Championship 2021 Format: First-Class Caption Can Worcestershire find their first win of this season against the higher-placed Durham? Key Stats Worcestershire have drawn all their games this season and are 4th in the points table with 52 points. Durham stunned […]
The 2021 season of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) set to begin on 28 August will see the competition confined to a single venue, St. Kitts’s Warner Park. The venue which has a capacity of 8000 will be allowed to seat up to 4000 spectators to watch the tournament which will consist of 33 matches. […]
English cricket would join a social media boycott to show “solidarity against online abuse,” it was announced. In a statement to the media on 24 April, leading football clubs and organisations announced that all social media platforms would be boycotted by them from 30 April. On 28 April, the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA), eight women’s […]
ZIM vs PAK 2nd Test Match Details In this article, we preview Zimbabwe vs Pakistan: 2nd Test, on May 7, 2021, on the Pakistan Tour of Zimbabwe to be played at Harare. Team Zimbabwe Report Zimbabwe are likely to field the following eleven in the 2nd test against Pakistan on 7 May: Prince Masvaure, Kevin […]
In this article, we preview Zimbabwe vs Pakistan, the 2nd Test of a series on the Pakistan tour of Zimbabwe, to be played at Harare on May 7, 2021. Pakistan lead the series 1-0, having won the first test by an innings. For Zimbabwe will have to punch above their weight to make a match […]
According to an announcement by the state body on 28 April, the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) has been given a go-ahead by the BCCI to hold the 5th season of the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL), the premier franchise-based T20 competition of the state. Season five of the TNPL was originally scheduled to be […]
On 29 April, Langton Rusere, the umpire from Zimbabwe, made history when he became the first Black African to officiate as an on-field umpire in a Test match. Thirty-five-year-old Rusere was one of two on-field umpires – along with Marais Erasmus of South Africa – to officiate in the 1st Test between Zimbabwe and Pakistan. […]
The ECB wants every county in Wales and England to be able to access disability cricket and has committed to investing £2 million to achieve that end. Lord’s Taverners will run the scheme which is reportedly the biggest investment into a programme of disability cricket any national cricket board has ever made. Launch of Super […]
Four India women cricketers have been granted No Objection Certificates (NOCs) by the BCCI, allowing them to participate in the inaugural edition of the Hundred, an eight-team competition that begins on 21 July. Media outlets have been informed that the ECB has been sent the NOCs and that the BCCI is likely to make an […]
Cricket South Africa (CSA) has averted the threat of defunding and derecognition that they faced unless they agreed to incorporate a majority independent board. Nathi Mthethwa, sports minister of South Africa, has said that a notice to intervene in CSA published on 23 April in the government gazette would be withdrawn. Receipt by CSA of […]
Cricket was last played at the Olympics in 1900. However, the game could return to the Olympics via the T10 format. That could form part of the discussions at the CEC meetings scheduled last week by the ICC to map out the new calendar for the eight-year period from 2023 to 2030. Both the BCCI […]
The ECB appointed Smith as national selector three years ago. After a restructure initiated by the managing director of England’s men’s cricket, Ashley Giles, Smith has had to vacate the post. The new structure will witness Chris Silverwood, the head coach, given the responsibility of selecting squads. He will decide the final XI in consultation […]
The ICC has banned UAE medium pacer Qadeer Ahmed for five years after finding him guilty of six breaches of ICC’s anti-corruption code. The ban will be effective retrospectively from 16 October 2019 when the ICC provisionally suspended the player along with his colleagues Shaiman Anwar and Mohammed Naveed, players who have already received 8-year […]
Players will be allowed to use their phones during matches in the County Championship, according to a decision announced by the ECB which has chosen to ignore the development of online streaming of matches. Given the improvements in availability and quality of live streams of county matches recently, media observers expected the ECB to treat […]