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The 35-year old opener will not be part of New South Wales’ final match of the season against Queensland next week

ESPNcricinfo staff07-Mar-2018New South Wales opener Ed Cowan has announced his retirement from first-class cricket following his team’s 23-run defeat against Victoria, which put them out of contention for the Sheffield Shield title. Cowan will not be part of the Blues’ final match of the season against Queensland next week.The 35-year old has 10,097 runs in 143 first-class matches over a career spanning nearly 15 years.”It’s been a wonderful journey and I’m grateful for all those who contributed along the way,” Cowan said. “I’ll always cherish the great memories and friendships that the game has afforded me. I feel incredibly lucky to have played around the world with so many great people over such a long period of time.The former Australia Test opener, who has 1001 runs in 18 matches, last represented the national side in July 2013. He has also featured in 53 games for Tasmania.”I’m indebted to NSW Cricket, which invested a lot of time, money and energy in me from a young age,” he said. “It’s equally as important to recognise everyone at Cricket Tasmania, who were hugely formative in my career.”Cowan will continue to play Premier Cricket with Sydney University. “I have loved the game from my earliest days and feel incredibly lucky to still do so. At this stage I will continue to play Premier Cricket with Sydney University for the remainder of this season and beyond as we aim for successive titles.”The leading run-scorer in the 2016-17 Shield season, Cowan played only five of New South Wales’ nine matches this season and finished with 336 runs.Cricket NSW CEO Andrew Jones praised Cowan’s contribution to cricket. “Ed is a great example of what hard work, self-belief and an ongoing desire to learn can achieve,” Jones said. “He continued to be attracted by the quest to master batting even after playing for Australia and retires at or near the top of his game. Ed should be proud of his achievements playing for NSW, Tasmania and Australia and scoring more than 10,000 first-class runs. He will remain a valued member of the NSW cricket family.”

Russell Domingo will have to reapply for his position of South Africa coach if he wants to continue after the England tour in May-August 2017

ESPNcricinfo staff28-Jan-2017Russell Domingo will have to reapply for his position of South Africa coach if he wants to continue after the England tour in May-August 2017. Cricket South Africa (CSA) have confirmed they will begin a recruitment process to appoint a head coach after the England tour and through to the 2019 World Cup.”The Board of Directors also resolved to commence the recruitment process for the appointment of the Proteas Head Coach to take charge after the tour to the UK until after the 2019 edition of the ICC World Cup,” CSA said at the end of a release about a review into domestic cricket.Domingo, who took over in May 2013, has twice had his contract extended. It was originally set to run until the 2015 World Cup, before CSA took a unanimous decision to extend it till April 2016. Then, last October, it was decided to extend it till the end of the England tour.Until then, Domingo’s position had seemed less than secure, after a string of below-par performances including the loss of two major Test series in 2015-16 – in India and against England at home – an early exit from the 2016 World T20, and a bottom-place finish in an ODI triangular series in the West Indies. A four-person independent panel assigned to review South Africa’s performances over that period was expected to put Domingo’s position under scrutiny, but the cancellation of the review process gave him some breathing room.Since then, South Africa have bounced back, winning Test series against New Zealand and Sri Lanka at home either side of beating Australia 5-0 in a home ODI series and 2-1 in an away Test series.In a press conference at the end of the Sri Lanka Tests, Domingo had outlined his vision of how he would like South Africa to play under him, but refused to look too far beyond his current contract.”I could go tomorrow,” he had said. “Nothing is certain. I by no means look too far ahead in my coaching career. I take it one series at a time. You never know what’s around the corner in coaching. I’ve always felt that the support that I’ve got from the players is the most important thing. If you’ve still got the support of the players, that’s all that matters. I’ve always felt I had that. It’s out of my control, what happens happens.”

Jason Holder’s West Indians are staring humiliating defeat in the face after three days of their opening tour match against a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Dec-2015
ScorecardJason Holder’s batting is the only thing preventing the West Indians from an innings defeat to a Cricket Australia XI•Cricket Australia/Getty Images

Jason Holder’s West Indians are staring humiliating defeat in the face after three days of their opening tour match against a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane.The visitors are 7 for 125, still needing another 76 runs to make the modest CA XI bat again, six of whose members are making their first-class debuts, while only Jordan Silk (his 22nd match) and Cameron Boyce (45th) have played more than 10 fixtures apiece.After resuming at 4 for 245, the CA XI progressed to 444 thanks to solid contributions by Jimmy Peirson (64), Matthew Short (76), and James Bazley (50), before the tail wagged via the blades of Tom Andrews (33) and Boyce (32).In addition to claiming four wickets, Holder was the only West Indian to concede fewer than four runs an over on the smallish Allan Border Field. Then, and not for the first time, he was as his side’s only prospect of forcing the hosts to bat again on the final day.Holder was stranded on an unbeaten 26 after the top order melted away in disconcerting fashion. Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo and Marlon Samuels could manage just 26 runs between them.

The IPL crisis has taken a new twist with Mumbai Police summoning the Chennai Super Kings chief executive, Gurunath Meiyappan, to its Crime Branch for questioning in connection with betting

ESPNcricinfo staff23-May-2013The IPL crisis has taken a new twist with Mumbai Police summoning a top Chennai Super Kings official, Gurunath Meiyappan, to its Crime Branch for questioning in connection with betting. He is expected to appear between 11 am and 5 pm on Friday after the police rejected his request for an extension until Monday.The news is embarrassing – and potentially damaging – for the IPL and its parent body the BCCI, given that Meiyappan is the son-in-law of BCCI president N Srinivasan, whose company India Cements owns the Super Kings franchise. Meiyappan’s exact designation is unclear at this point but his twitter handle says “team principal” and he has been a regular on the team dugout during matches and at the franchise table during the IPL auctions.Television visuals on Friday morning showed Meiyappan leaving Srinivasan’s house in Kodaikanal, a hill resort town where the BCCI chief has been spending the last few days.The summons was affixed to the door of Meiyappan’s Chennai residence and been served to, and accepted by, a manager at the Super Kings office.”We need to verify certain issues raised and claims made by Vindoo Dara Singh during his interrogation,” the joint commissioner of police Himanshu Roy said. “It may be necessary to confront Meiyappan with Vindoo to verify whether there is any truth in the latter’s claims. It is obvious that if Vindoo was merely socialising with him, we would not have summoned Meiyappan.”There was no official statement by the franchise.However, IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla did speak briefly on the issue. “The Mumbai and Delhi Police are competent authorities and let them finish the investigations before jumping to any conclusions,” he said, when asked whether Srinivasan should step down from the post of BCCI president accepting moral responsibility for the crisis. “How can you term anyone guilty before the investigations are completed? Let the police report be submitted and then we will be in a better position to talk further.”The development followed reports circulating in the media since Tuesday on the proximity of Virender “Vindoo” Dara Singh, who was arrested that day in Mumbai for links with bookies, to the Super Kings franchise. Those reports, which included pictures of Vindoo watching IPL matches in the company of Super Kings captain MS Dhoni’s wife, were not denied in the 48 hours since.Later in the evening Ratnakar Shetty, the BCCI’s general manager (cricket development), met Mumbai Police’s joint commissioner Himanshu Roy. It was learnt that the meeting was primarily to seek Mumbai police’s cooperation in the BCCI’s internal investigation of the case against suspended cricketers. The Supreme Court had on Tuesday directed the BCCI to complete the internal inquiry within 15 days.The police crackdown on bookies continued in other parts of the country. In Kolkata, ten people, including one bookie, were arrested for being allegedly involved in cricket betting. “We have arrested 10 people, including a bookie last night. We are investigating thecase. They will be produced before a court today [Friday],” deputy commissioner Santosh Pandey told PTI.Initial investigations said they had bet on a match between Mumbai Indians and Super Kings.

Kent scored 300 runs in the day to grind home their first-innings advantage over Leicestershire and reach 404 for 6, an overall lead of 263 runs at the mid-point of the game

24-May-2012
ScorecardKent scored 300 runs in the day to grind home their first-innings advantage over Leicestershire and reach 404 for 6, an overall lead of 263 runs at the mid-point of the game.Resuming on their superior overnight position of 104 for 2 – in response to Leicestershire’s modest 141 all out – Kent spent two sessions doggedly enforcing their lead. Centurion Michael Powell and James Tredwell cracked on in the final hour to add an unbroken 92 for the seventh wicket against a weary Leicestershire attack.The second day started with Kent skipper Rob Key and his overseas pro Brendan Nash at the helm, with both seemingly hell-bent on grinding the visiting attack into the dirt. Nash at least played some attacking strokes in his innings of 76 with eight fours, while Key appeared content to drop anchor and bat almost six hours for a dogged 85.Their third-wicket stand of 131 in 43 overs ended almost without a murmur at St Lawrence when Nash, driving at a low full toss from Wayne White, picked out Greg Smith in the gully to stun the Kent members.Winter recruit Powell marched in to join Key in adding 86 in tandem with Key until, just 15 short of his first hundred of the season, the Kent skipper chopped on against Josh Cobb to make it 253 for 4. Stroke-maker Darren Stevens upped the tempo with a chancy but quickfire innings of 23 from 33 balls that ended all too soon when the right-hander miscued an attempted sweep and picked out Cobb at mid-on, with Kent already 151 ahead.Geraint Jones perished soon after tea when, in attempting to drive, the toe of his bat hit the ground and inadvertently scooped the ball to Jacques du Toit at short extra cover. Though visiting skipper Matthew Hoggard continued to ring the bowling changes – he used eight bowlers in all – neither Powell nor Tredwell could be dislodged thereafter.Powell, who hit his maiden century for the county against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road in April, reached the three-figure milestone for the first time at Canterbury after four hours and from 246 balls.He duly punched the air with delight, but took guard again to the following ball and accelerated his scoring rate in the six remaining overs through to the close as Kent hammered home their dominance going into the third day of four.

The BCCI’s Working Committee has rejected IPL franchises Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Sahara Pune Warriors demand for a reduction in the franchisee fee

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Apr-2011The BCCI’s Working Committee has rejected Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Sahara Pune Warriors demand for a reduction in their their franchisee fees. The two new franchises, which made their debuts this season, had sought a 25% waiver on the grounds that the BCCI had stated in the bidding document that each team would play 18 league matches in a season, but the schedule was later pared down to 14 matches per team.The two teams have already paid 75 per cent of this year’s installment and wanted the balance waived. They argued that the reduction in matches was a breach of the terms of the Invitation to Tender the board issued before the two new teams were bought. Since they had based their bid on the number of matches to be played, a reduction in matches should therefore be accompanied by a reduction in the franchise fee. However, the committee voted to turn down the request at its meeting in Mumbai today.In March 2010, the Sahara group bid $370m to became owners of the Pune franchise while a consortium of five companies called Rendezvous Sports World offered US$333.33m for Kochi. The amount is to be paid in installments over 10 years.

Ravi Bopara boosted his chances of a Test recall with a seven-wicket haul as England Lions crushed Bangladesh in three days in the tour match at Derby

21-May-2010
ScorecardRavi Bopara followed up his seven wickets in the game with 28 in the second innings as Lions hurried to victory•Getty Images

Ravi Bopara boosted his chances of a Test recall with a seven-wicket haul as England Lions crushed Bangladesh in three days in the tour match at Derby.Bopara ended a stubborn last-wicket stand to finish with four for 14 in the innings and seven for 23 in the match and then took the Lions to the brink of a nine-wicket victory before he was bowled in the final over before lunch for 28.Lions skipper and England opener Alastair Cook spent time in the middle before next week’s Lord’s Test with an unbeaten 42 from 55 balls as his team easily chased down a target of 86. Bopara has not played Test cricket since last summer but the Essex allrounder could now come into England”s plans for Lord’s if the selectors decide to rest players.Bangladesh will be hoping captain Shakib Al Hasan makes a speedy recovery from the chickenpox which kept him out of this game after their batsmen wasted the chance to spend time in the middle before Lord’s.Only Jahural Islam showed the necessary application required on a pitch that helped the seamers to score an unbeaten 58 off 153 balls and was the only Bangladeshi batsman to pass 50 in the game.At least Rubel Hossain dug in to see him to his half-century and made the Lions bowlers work for the last wicket on a hot, humid morning. The contest had been decided on the previous afternoon when the tourists lost wickets to a rash of ill-judged shots to collapse to 139 for 9 a lead of just 63.Jahural and Rubel continued the stand which had rescued their side from a two-day defeat and batted for another 11 overs before Bopara struck. Jahural brought up his 50, which came off 129 balls, by driving Liam Plunkett through the covers for his fifth four and he hit two more to at least give the Bangladeshi bowlers a modest target to defend.The last-wicket pair had been together for 18 overs and had added 40 runs when Bopara found the outside edge of Rubel’s bat to give wicketkeeper Steven Davies his sixth victim. The best Bangladesh could hope for was to make the Lions work for the runs and they should have removed Bopara on five in the fourth over when he cut Robiul Islam hard to gully where Mahmudullah spilled the chance.Shafiul Islam beat Cook several times but the opening pair had taken the Lions to within 10 runs of victory when Bopara, who had faced 47 balls and hit four fours, pushed forward at Abdur Razzak’s left-arm spin and was bowled.The Lions needed just three balls after the interval to wrap up victory with Moeen Ali easing the memory of his first-ball dismissal in the first innings by dispatching Razzak for six and four.

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Despite beating Kilmarnock 2-1 on Sunday, the Rangers fans aren’t happy with the performance of their left-back Borna Barisic.

After Scott Arfield’s opener was cancelled out by Killie’s Stephen O’Donnell, a last-minute Connor Goldson winner gave Steven Gerrard’s men all three points on the opening weekend of the Premiership season.

Goldson’s last-gasp header meant the Rangers fans went home happy after what had looked like being another disappointing result against the Ayrshire side.

Yet, even with the late heroics, the Gers supporters weren’t pleased with Barisic – and not for the first time this season either.

The Croat endured a tricky first season at Ibrox, only featuring 22 times after signing from Osijek last summer.

This campaign hasn’t started much better, as he was withdrawn at half-time against Progres Niederkorn last week, and was bullied by Chris Burke in the second half at Rugby Park.

The supporters have pulled no punches in their assessment of the defender, with many coming to the end of their tether after yet another abject display.

Have a look at some of the best Twitter reactions down below…

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With Derby County confirming they have given Chelsea permission to speak to Frank Lampard about their vacant manager position, it looks nailed on that the 41-year-old will be in the Stamford Bridge dugout next season.

And according to The Telegraph, the Blues’ legendary midfielder can be expected to get at least one full campaign at the club barring the worst-case scenario of a relegation battle.

Looking at the predicament Chelsea are in, you would have to say Roman Abramovich has no choice but to give Lampard that and that anything less would be extremely harsh.

Of course, the current Derby boss will have an extremely talented crop of young players to call upon, something highlighted well by talkSPORT. However, with that transfer ban in play, he will be unable to sign an Eden Hazard replacement this summer.

Most Chelsea fans will have faith that Callum Hudson-Odoi will be able to step in for the Belgian, but producing 16 Premier League goals and 15 assists will be no easy feat.

Considering that, Lampard surely deserves to get to a season where he will be able to use the transfer market. Asking him to perform miracles in this current climate would just not be fair.

Until he gets to operate in the transfer window — assuming he gets the job, of course — Abramovich and co should not judge Lampard’s work too harshly.

Chelsea fans, just how much leeway do you think Lampard should be given next season? Let us know yours thoughts in the comment section below!

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