Team Stokes 233 (Crawley 43, Robinson 2-7) lead Team Buttler 287 for 5 dec by 54 runs England allrounder Sam Curran is awaiting the results of a Covid-19 test after being placed in self-isolation at the Ageas Bowl, casting a shadow over the second day of the intra-squad clash. On the pitch, the battle for bowling places intensified as Jos …

Sri Lanka’s cricket team will resume training on Monday under strict health measures.© Twitter Sri Lanka’s cricket team will resume training on Monday under strict health measures after a two-and-a-half-month hiatus forced by coronavirus, the country’s governing body said. Cricket came to a halt on March 13 when the visiting England team pulled out on the second day of a …

India captain Virat Kohli revealed that Australia batsman David Warner has been very insistent in trying to convince him to join the TikTok bandwagon. Warner has almost become synonymous with the video-sharing app during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, with the left-handed opener dropping wacky videos on almost a daily basis. During an Instagram Live chat with Ravichandran Ashwin, Kohli joked that …

India skipper Virat Kohli has said that he does not really know whether the game of cricket will change or not once the action resumes during this coronavirus period. Kohli was doing an Instagram live session with spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and it was then that the Indian skipper was asked whether he sees the game-changing a lot when it resumes. …

Sri Lanka legend Kumar Sangakkara was questioned for nearly 10 hours on Thursday by detectives probing explosive allegations the 2011 Cricket World Cup final was fixed under his captaincy. Sangakkara, 42, was called in to the police Special Investigation Unit (SIU) examining the conduct of the final, which Sri Lanka lost to India at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. “I came here …

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Thursday announced that the men’s team will be wearing a ”Black Lives Matter” logo on their playing shirts when they face West Indies in the three-match Test series. The decision was fully supported by the England players led by Test captain Joe Root and stand-in captain for the first Test Ben Stokes. …

Umar Akmal was handed a 3-year ban by the PCB for failing to report corrupt approaches.© AFP Former Supreme Court judge Justice (retd) Faqir Muhammad Khokhar has been appointed as an independent adjudicator to hear Umar Akmal’s appeal against the three-year ban for breaching the PCB Anti-Corruption Code in two separate incidents. “The independent adjudicator will now decide on the …

Piyush Chawla was a part of the World Cup-winning teams in 2007 and 2011.© Instagram Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla on Thursday opened up about his argument with a national selector when he was not able to make it to the Indian squad. Chawla revealed that a selector had once told him that he couldn’t make it to the Indian squad as …

England have announced that their shirts for the upcoming three-Test series against West Indies will feature the Black Lives Matter logo. The move mirrors that already taken by West Indies in asking to use the design by Alisha Hosannah, partner of Premier League footballer Troy Deeney. The decision was taken by the ECB, fully supported by the England players led …

England and West Indies will be presented with red caps and wear specially-designed playing shirts on the second day of the third Test at Emirates Old Trafford to raise awareness for the Ruth Strauss Foundation. The charity, which was launched last year, is named after Sir Andrew Strauss’ late wife Ruth, who died in 2018 at the age of 46 …