Ashes series in Australia currently are scheduled in the same year as the Cricket World Cup. ECB and Cricket Australia agreed in 2007 that this must be addressed when the new Future Tours Programme is considered and we are pleased to say that this has now been agreed. In order to break the cycle we shall play back-to-back home and away Ashes series in 2013 ECB Annual Report, 2010. They’ve had four years to prepare for this World Cup. A tournament for the sake of which the board cleared...
Cook sacked as ODI captain
Alastair Cook has been dropped as captain of the England one-day team ahead of next year's World Cup.More follows pic.twitter.com/3WuOCXdPtH — BBC Sport (@BBCSport) December 19, 2014 I’ll be updating this post over the course of the evening to follow reaction, so hit the ‘refresh’ key. Update, 5.20pm: Nick Hoult is reporting that: Eoin Morgan is now set to lead the side for the tri-series in Australia after Christmas and then the World Cup in February. Cook will now...
Outside the turtle tank
It used to be said that the Church of England was the Conservative party at prayer. There is a case for saying that the ECB is the Conservative party at play. While David Cameron feigns one-nation paternalism with his ‘all in this together’ mantra, in my view the food banks and bedroom tax tell you that the disaffected and disadvantaged are rather more outside than in. There is a vast disconnect between the rhetoric and what we see around us. So it is with the ECB. Margaret Thatcher’s radical...
