Plans to remove the coin toss in Test cricket have been backed by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The International Cricket Council (ICC) will discuss the idea later this month as it considers ways to reduce home advantage. It could introduce the change for the new World Test Championship, which starts with next summer’s Ashes series between England and ...

Cricket West Indies may scrap one Test from Sri Lanka’s tour next month in favour of limited-overs internationals, according to Sri Lanka Cricket. The teams were due to play three Tests only, including the Caribbean’s first day-night Test, but only a week out from the Sri Lanka side’s departure, Sri Lanka Cricket said it had been informed by CWI that ...

Jalalabad:-A series of explosions targeting a cricket match in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, has killed eight people and injured 45 on Friday. The attack occurred around 11pm local time on Friday, as spectators had gathered at the stadium to watch the Ramadan Cup, the provincial governor’s office said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the Taliban said it was ...

New York:-Gladstone Dainty, president of the USA Cricket Association (USACA), and board member Dr Linden Dodson of New York have filed a lawsuit in United States District Court in the Eastern District of New York against the ICC and its chief executive David Richardson, seeking $2 million dollars in damages for defamation and “tortious interference with business relations between plaintiffs ...

ROME: Maria Sharapova fired a French Open warning with an epic three-hour win over Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko to reach the Rome semi-finals on Friday as Rafael Nadal continued his clay court domination. Former world number one and five-time Grand Slam winner Sharapova found herself in a dogfight with her Latvian opponent. Playing her fourth match in as many ...

NEW DELHI:  Proposals to scrap the time-honored tradition of a coin toss prior to test matches defy logic and should not be considered, according to several former South Asian cricket captains. A ritual since the first test between Australia and England in 1877 risks extinction when the Cricket Committee of the International Cricket Council (ICC) meet in Mumbai later this ...

Pakistan’s Maaz Khan finished as runner-up in the  Shanghai Cooperation Organization International Wushu Sanda Tournament, currently being held in Chongqing (China). Khan who was up against a Chinese competitor had to pull out with a foot injury during the second round, settling for a silver medal. On Friday, Khan had defeated India’s Pawan Gupta in the semi-final of 75-kilogramme category of the ...

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first in a two-day warm-up match against Leicestershire, ahead of a two-Test series against England. The Pakistan team consists of Azhar Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Sami Aslam, Usman Salahuddin, Sarfraz Ahmed, Saad Ali, Shahdab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Hassan Ali, Muhammad Abbad and Rahat Ali. Fresh from a five-wicket victory over Ireland in the ...

LONDON:-England great Ian Botham has backed controversial plans for a new city-based 100-ball competition despite widespread criticism from within the game. The former all-rounder believes England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves is right to press ahead with the “Hundred” concept in the hope that it can match the global appeal of the Indian Premier League and Australia’s Big ...

The inaugural elections for USA Cricket, the national governing body seeking to replace the expelled USA Cricket Association as the ICC’s member board in America, have been postponed to May 29. According to ICC Americas USA project manager Eric Parthen, the decision was made primarily to allow the nominating and governance committee to properly vet eligible candidates. “We communicated internally ...