Australia won the toss and decided to bat against EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Australia will aim to attack England with pace after winning the toss and bowling at the WACA. Defeat for England, who have named an unchanged side, would make it 10 in a row across all formats and equal their worst run. After the loss in Sydney, Alastair Cook said he would consider his future as...
BCB to decide on draft based on 'response of other boards'
BCB president Nazmul Hassan said the Bangladesh board will consider the other Full Members' takes on the 'position paper', put forward by a working group of the Finance & Commercial Affairs committee of the ICC, before coming out for or against it. However, ESPNcricinfo understands that when asked for their individual opinions at a board meeting on Thursday, an overwhelming majority of the BCB...
Draft will need 'extraordinary majority' to be passed - ICC vice-president
Mustafa Kamal, the ICC vice-president, has said an "extraordinary majority" will be required to approve ICC Finance & Commercial Affairs working group's increasingly controversial draft proposal. He does not believe, at this stage, that it would be right to bring such changes to the world of cricket. Kamal was apparently not present at the meeting in which the proposal was first discussed during...
Leicestershire gloom set to deepen
Leicestershire's problems are set to intensify with the announcement of a significant loss for the 2013 financial year. The club, which finished bottom of the Division Two County Championship table without a win in the season, have cited player salaries and the costs of maintaining their Grace Road ground as pertinent factors in the losses. Leicestershire also declared a loss of just over £250,000...
Jan
23
WV Raman appointed KKR batting coach
WV Raman, the former India batsman, has been appointed batting coach for the Kolkata Knight Riders ahead of the seventh edition of the IPL. Raman had earlier worked with Kings XI Punjab as the assistant coach for the 2013 season. "Former Indian cricketer WV Raman has been appointed @KKRiders batting coach #PepsiIPL," the IPL tweeted on Wednesday night. Raman, who played 11 Tests and 27 ODIs for...
De Villiers making slow progress after hand surgery
AB de Villiers, South Africa's Test wicketkeeper, has admitted he is making slow progress after his hand surgery but remains confident he will be fit for the upcoming series against Australia. De Villiers went under the knife on January 10 and was estimated to need up to a month of rehabilitation before taking the field again. "It's still swollen because it was done not so long ago. I still...
Openers should have batted for longer - Dhoni
Dhoni: Batsmen not able to convert starts It is hard to fault an opening pair that has been so successful over the past several months but it was Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma's slow start that pulled India down in their big chase in Hamilton, MS Dhoni has said. The pair consumed 7.4 overs and added only 22 after India were set a D/L target of 297 from 42 overs. The middle order, led...
Warne signs on for T20 coaching role
Shane Warne has signed on as a specialist spin coach to help Australia's slow bowlers in the lead-up to this year's World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. Cricket Australia has confirmed that Warne will join the T20 squad in South Africa in early March and he will support coach Darren Lehmann as what CA described as a "consultant providing specialist coaching to the spin bowlers". Spin is expected to play...
Jan
22
FICA slams 'Big Three' ICC proposal
The world's cricketers have voiced their strong opposition to the proposed revamp of the ICC's structure, declaring that it would only serve to strengthen India, England and Australia while weakening the rest of the cricketing nations. The Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA), which represents player associations in seven of the ICC's ten full member countries, has declared...
Smith takes up Irish citizenship
Graeme Smith, captain of the South Africa Test team, has been granted Irish citizenship. Smith, 32, married the Irish singer Morgan Deane in August 2011, and the pair have been in Dublin in recent days to tie up the details. Deane posted a photo on Instagram of Smith with his certificate. Smith has not had to relinquish his South African citizenship. While the development will have no immediate...
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