Essex FINALLY apologise for beer poured on Muslim player
Essex will be making sure to improve the cultural education of its players, but the club's statement immediately following the incident stopped short of apologising.
Essex will be making sure to improve the cultural education of its players, but the club's statement immediately following the incident stopped short of apologising.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY CRAIG HOPE: The Don Bradman of umpiring, as Mike Atherton cast him this summer, is considering the most obvious question - why is he so good?
LAWRENCE BOOTH AT THE KIA OVAL: By the time Jacks, who previously boasted a career record of six T20 wickets in 33 matches, had finished his spell of four for 15, Kent were 54 for four.
Jos Buttler has backed Moeen Ali to rediscover the bowling form that helped England win 3-0 in Sri Lanka two years ago - and believes he could team up once more with fellow cast-off Adil Rashid.
The ECB have now charged Sussex with breaching their directives, leaving them to face a Cricket Discipline Commission hearing which could penalise them 12 points.
It might no longer be reasonable to claim that Woakes' international performances go under the radar after he was named the Professional Cricketers' Association's player of the year.
With an amber weather warning in place for the West Midlands it was always a long shot that any meaningful cricket would take place on Saturday.
English cricket's inaugural champions in the shortest format made the most of winning the toss and asking Gloucestershire to bat first on a tacky surface upon which fluent stroke play proved trick
Ben Duckettexorcised his personal demons by steering Nottinghamshire to their second Twenty20 Blast title a year after being part of a finals day choke.
The Surrey batsman was last week awarded a red-ball central contract for the first time, ultimately leading to his move to Welsh Fire in the 100-ball tournament.
A hard-hitting batsman and a pacey seam bowler, Reid played 58 tests for New Zealand - captain for 34 of them. He scored 3,428 runs, including six centuries, and took 85 wickets.
The sanction, which plunged Sussex to the bottom of the south group with an amended record of just 12 points, related to Australian veteran pace bowler Mitch Claydon ball-tampering.
England's tour of South Africa next month is under threat after the country's sports minister ordered its cricket board to stand down amid accusations of incompetence and mismanagement.
Archer, one of four England players at Rajasthan Royals along with Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Tom Curran, added three more to his tally during Thursday's defeat by the Capitals.
EXCLUSIVE BY LAWRENCE BOOTH: A new-look domestic structure in 2021 will see the 18 first-class counties contest both the County Championship and the Bob Willis Trophy.
The trip would be a thank you from English cricket after the Pakistanis came to the UK this summer in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Freddie Flintoff initially retired from all forms of the game in 2010 after stepping down from Test cricket just a year earlier, winning two Ashes series - including being named player of the 2005 ser
Khan invited the ECB on October 12 for what would be England's first trip to Pakistan since 2005. The games would take place in Karachi or Rawalpindi across four or five days from January 15 and 2
Lingering concerns over the state of the shoulder he nursed through last year's World Cup mean that the 32-year-old retains reservations about returning to play all three formats.
County cricket's limited-overs competitions will be split into groups of north and south rather than follow the Championship's conference model.
Jofra Archer has been named Most Valuable Player at this year's Indian Premier League after a stellar campaign for Rajasthan Royals.
JOFRA ARCHER: For Rajasthan Royals it is now make-or-break time in the Indian Premier League. From my perspective, we need to win all five remaining games
As with all international tours, individuals retain the right to withdraw without prejudice in light of lingering reservations, even after the ECB's security advisers have given the green light.
Keep up to speed with all the signings, departures and overseas players in county cricket for the 2021 season.
The restrictions brought about by the coronavirus crisis have hit cricket hard. Ashley Giles, ECB director, thanks the England men's side for stepping up and showing 'great maturity' in ac