Women’s Ashes: Series goes to final stages after amazing Test January 30, 2022 It was quite simply a Test match England’s women couldn’t lose. A win or draw would have kept their hopes of regaining cricket’s coveted Ashes alive but a loss would have ended any prospect of a series victory. So in the shortened four-day Test match – the only long form match in this year’s series [...]
The Hundred: Tournament to start in August with Brave vs Fire clash January 27, 2022 Domestic cricket’s newest sensation The Hundred will return at the start of August with men’s defending champions Southern Brave taking on Welsh Fire. The tournament will run from 3 August through to to a showpiece finals weekend on 2-3 September. Last year saw the competition play out its inaugural, controversial, season with Brave winning the [...]
Cinch and Cazoo zoom into top tier of sports sponsors January 27, 2022 Online car marketplaces Cinch and Cazoo, takeaway service Just Eat and social media platform Tik Tok were the biggest entrants to sports sponsorship in the UK last year, according to a new report. The four brands were the only new entrants in consultancy Onside’s Top 10 Most Appealing UK Sports Sponsors, which is published today. [...]
Ed Warner: Stand up for English cricket January 27, 2022 Wanted: someone to stand up for English cricket. National governing body the ECB is hunkered in its bunker, losing the PR battles over racism and the Ashes debacle. This simply won’t do. Challenging though the circumstances are, the sport needs visible leadership with a strong voice, prepared to defend what is good about it while [...]
Cricketer Taylor reveals ban after spot-fixing cocaine blackmail plot January 24, 2022 Former Zimbabwe cricket captain Brendan Taylor says he is facing a ban for failing to quickly report a spot-fixing approach. Taylor says he reluctantly took a payment of $15,000 during a business trip to India in 2019 after being blackmailed with footage of him taking cocaine. The 35-year-old waited four months before reporting the incident [...]
County cricket fixture changes not enough to save England’s Test team January 23, 2022 When the County Championship fixture list was announced last week, many hoped it would include a healthy amount of August four-day games as England’s international Test side look to rebuild from a humiliating Ashes campaign. Alas, the domestic game is in for another season without the long-form game taking place across the height of the [...]
Virat Kohli’s succession options show the depth in Indian cricket January 21, 2022 “Everything has to come to a halt at some stage and for me, as Test captain of India, it’s now.” With those words earlier this month, Virat Kohli announced that he was stepping down, leaving the world’s No3 Test side without a skipper. It means there will be a new man at the helm when India [...]
Domestic cricket: Fixtures unveiled as English game eyes Ashes recovery January 20, 2022 The England and Wales Cricket Board (EBC) today finalised the fixtures for domestic English cricket’s main competitions. The County Championship fixtures will kick off the men’s domestic summer on 7 April and will conclude in the last week of September. During this time, the T20 Blast will run over a seven week period – culminating [...]
Ashes: England Women look to get off to flying T20 start January 19, 2022 England Women will be looking to succeed where the men’s team failed and end their Ashes losing streak when the showpiece competition gets underway tomorrow in Adelaide. England last won the Ashes in 2013-14, when they beat the Southern Stars 10-8 in Australia. In the three subsequent series they have failed to regain the coveted [...]
Yorkshire hire World Cup winning former West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson January 19, 2022 Yorkshire have appointed former West Indies and South Africa head coach Ottis Gibson on a three-year contract starting next month. Gibson, who also had a stint as England bowling coach, is set to become only the second black head coach in the history of county cricket. He replaces Andrew Gale, who was among 16 people [...]