ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Regional cricket’s biggest rivalries start on Wednesday, November 6! Two groups of five teams each will run concurrently in St. Kitts and Trinidad, contesting a total of 40 action-packed, group stage matches. Coming on the heels of the 2019 Caribbean Premier League, fans can look forward to another four weeks of exciting cricket…
Caribbean Premier League finals have invariably been about the richness of T20 sport, the culmination of a tournament in a parallel world that’s accessible to all but attended by some. There’s strong local flavour in that sense, and there’s colour and crowd. There’s three different winners in six editions. And there’s one perpetual runner-up. Amazon…
Andre Russell, Glenn Maxwell and Harbhajan Singh are among the 165 overseas players to have registered for the inaugural draft of The Hundred, ESPNcricinfo can reveal. The first handful of overseas stars who have signed up for the tournament were released on Tuesday, and included many of the biggest names on the T20 circuit, including Rashid Khan, Chris Gayle,…
Guyana Amazon Warriors thrashed Jamaica Tallawahs by 77 runs to pick up their ninth consecutive win in CPL 2019 on Thursday (October 3). Reduced to 8 for 4, Shoaib Malik and Sherfane Rutherford revived the innings to take the side to 156 for 6. Imran Tahir then picked up 3 for 12 to shoot down…
West Indian fast bowler Miguel Cummins has signed a three-year Kolpak deal with Middlesex, ruling him out of contention for his country. Cummins has played 14 Tests and 11 ODIs, with his most recent West Indies appearance coming in the Antigua Test against India in August. The 29-year-old had a brief spell as an overseas player with…
The West Indies Emerging Players, as selected by Cricket West Indies (CWI), taking part in the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) have been putting impressive performances. All teams at this year’s tournament had to select two of the best up and coming Caribbean cricketers for this year’s event and there have been a number…
England have not included Jonny Bairstow in their Test tour of New Zealand. The squad for the two-Test series features four uncapped players, as announced on Monday (September 23). Openers Zak Crawley (Kent) and Dom Sibley (Warwickshire) earn maiden call-ups, along with the Lancashire pair of fast bowler Saqib Mahmood and leg spinner Matt Parkinson.…
A few weeks ago, had you spotted Barcelona’s trip to Granada on Saturday night in the La Liga schedule, you might well have predicted the winning team would be topping the table at the end of the evening. You would not have guessed that team would be Granada. But that is exactly what happened, the…
Guyana Amazon Warriors 81 for 2 (King 51*) beat Barbados Tridents 138 (Duminy 38, Green 4-14, Tahir 2-22) by 12 runs (DLS method) Guyana Amazon Warriors sealed a spot in the 2019 CPL playoffs with a 12-run win (DLS method) in a rain-truncated chase against Barbados Tridents. Their win was built on yet another impressive performance from their…
India captain Virat Kohli has received a demerit point and an official warning for an “inappropriate” shoulder contact with South Africa quick Beuran Hendricks while taking a run during the third T20I on Sunday in Bengaluru. Kohli was found guilty of a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct. The incident occurred in the fifth over of the match,…
Barbados Tridents put up a clinical show with both bat and ball to crush St Lucia Zouks in a one-sided encounter at St Lucia on Friday (September 20). Chasing 173, the home side had a miserable outing with the bat and were bowled out for just 101 with 31 balls to spare. Zouks lost a…
PARIS (Reuters) – Angel Di Maria scored twice in a vintage performance to help Paris St Germain outclass Real Madrid 3-0 in their opening Champions League Group A game on Wednesday. In the absence of the formidable attacking trio of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Edinson Cavani, Di Maria provided two first-half goals as PSG suffocated…
