Ian Botham says the criticism around the inclusion of spinner Adil Rashid in the home team's squad for the first Test against India is 'unnecessary'.
Australia cricketer Phillip Hughes was wearing an older model helmet when he suffered a serious head injury on Tuesday and the latest version released about a year ago might have offered better protection, the equipment manufacturer has said.
Shai Hope has struggled to even breach the 30-run mark in his four innings against England. His scores read 25, 7 16, 9 so far.
There is a more authentic Indian cricket connection to Afghanistan and that is through the family roots of Iftikhar Ali Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi.
West Indies captain Jason Holder says both his team and England putting up a united front to show support for the Black Lives Matter campaign before the start of the first Test in Southampton meant the "world to him" and he feels Michael Holding's powerful speech on racism "in his veins". Both teams took the knee for 30 seconds in solidarity with the BLM movement before the start of play on Wednesday.
Images from Day 1 of the fifth and final Ashes Test between England and Australia at The Oval in London on Thursday.
Former Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie has held talks with the England and Wales Cricket Board about coaching the national team, he said on Saturday.
Just 54 people turned up on the first day of an England-Pakistan Test a few weeks ago.
The 16-man squad includes batsmen Mark Stoneman and Dawid Malan and fast bowler Jake Ball, who have 11 Test caps between them, as well as three uncapped players in paceman Craig Overton, spinner Mason Crane and wicketkeeper Ben Foakes.
The Indian Premier League is not only one of the world's most lucrative annual sporting properties but also among the most durable, with not even the lengthening shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic apparently able to stop the Twenty20 juggernaut.
Though some sponsors of Australian cricketers have pulled individual sponsorship deals, the decision by Magellan suggests the financial impact of the episode will go to the core of a sport seen by many Australians as the embodiment of fairness.
The former seamer thought things changed for better for the World Cup hero after the Bristol bar brawl three years ago.
Strauss has also called for a change in England's top-order after another disappointing show by the batsmen.
England cemented their position by finishing day two on 202-5 riding fifties by Ben Duckett and Harry Brook.
Captain Joe Root has already plundered an English record 1,630 Test runs in 2021 and has two half-centuries in the Ashes series so far with 89 in Brisbane and 62 in Adelaide as his side slipped to two heavy defeats.
The most watched match of the 2019 World Cup globally was India against Pakistan with 273 million unique viewers tuning into linear TV coverage with over another 50 million digital-only viewers.
IPL was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday after multiple COVID-19 cases were detected in the tournament's bio-bubble.
Neeraj Chopra's rise to stardom from a Haryana village has been nothing short of spectacular.
England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler said on Saturday he had been stressing about his lack of Test runs and feeling the pressure of mounting speculation about his place in the team. Buttler has a reputation as a swashbuckling batsman in the limited over games but had averaged only 18 runs in his last seven Tests since replacing Jonny Bairstow as wicketkeeper in New Zealand last November.
Ahead of the fifth and final Test against England, India's junior physio Yogesh Parmar tested positive for COVID-19 in Manchester, leading to the cancellation of the team's training session on Thursday.
Root received applause on social media for his stance.
Sangakkara said the way Root handled himself on day three of the second Test was 'a great learning experience for everyone'.
Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar was lucky to escape unhurt in a car crash while travelling from Manchester to London on Sunday after the completion of the third Test between India and England.
Former captain Mike Atherton believes Joe Root is reaping the benefits of the 'incredible work' the England Test skipper has put into his batting during COVID-19 lockdown last year.
Victory for England would see them take the series, which is poised at 1-1.
The Nottinghamshire pace bowler doesn't want to look too far ahead, but next year's Ashes series is definitely on his radar.
Former captain Alastair Cook believes England have an "outstanding chance" to lift the World Cup on home soil, having built a squad full of proven match winners.
'If the appointment of Salman Khan helps promote sports in our country, then what's the harm?'
Former India batting coach Sanjay Bangar has highlighted Suryakumar Yadav's batting woes in ODIs, saying he needs clarity of mind and should find his own way of rotating the strike in the middle overs.
Pollock, who took 393 ODI wickets and 421 scalps in Tests besides scoring over 3,500 runs in both formats, said there was a time when all their plans would fall apart against Tendulkar and they would wait for him to make a mistake.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the youth to sweat it out on the play fields instead of spending time in playing computer games, saying 'playing field is more important than play station'.
Former captain Bob Willis made a sensational claim that England players indulged in ball tampering which led to umpires changing the ball during the group league match of the ICC Champions Trophy against Sri Lanka.
Gabriel, 30, accepted an ICC charge after he was warned by on-field umpires during the third Test for comments made towards England captain Joe Root.
Former England captain Ian Botham has been named a 'sexist relic' after he apparently made a sexist remark about men being 'dragged to the supermarket' by their wives.
The key for all Indian Premier League franchises in next year's auction, says Faisal Shariff, will be to invest in good Indian players and choose a captain from among them.
Commentary in India is considered a post-retirement option but Dinesh Karthik, who is very much an active cricketer, wants to change that perception.
England cricketer Ben Stokes will test his driving skills against five Formula One drivers, including Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, in the sport's second virtual Grand Prix this weekend. The World Cup winning all-rounder will team up with Thai racer Alexander Albon in the Red Bull line-up for his first esports competition.
With the Tokyo Olympics set to start on July 23, here is some trivia from the first two editions of the modern Olympics held in 1896 and 1900.
Banned Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir has accused former captain Salman Butt and agent Mazhar Majeed of tricking him into bowling deliberate no-balls in the 2010 Lord's Test against England.
Atherton said Kohli looked in his comfort zone during his knock on Sunday.
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