shares Justin Langer wants Glenn Maxwell to deliver on his talent © Getty Images Glenn Maxwell can be as good as Virat Kohli if he continues to ally newfound discipline and purpose to the talent he has demonstrated for a long time, Australia’s coach Justin Langer has declared. Ahead of the final ODI between
Month: March 2019
1:51 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Dimuth Karunaratne, Sri Lanka’s Test captain, was arrested for drink driving in Colombo on Sunday morning after he was involved in an accident that put the driver of a three-wheeler in hospital. According to police, the injured driver has sustained only minor injuries. Karunaratne has been granted bail, having
8:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Andrew Strauss has launched a foundation in the name of his late wife, Ruth, who died last year after battling a rare form of lung cancer. The Ruth Strauss Foundation will raise funds to research rare forms of lung cancer and to provide emotional and psychological support to patients and
3:00 AM ET Toss Pakistan opt to field Australia For the second game running, Pakistan put Australia into bat. This is in quest to prevent a 5-0 whitewash that will complete a successful Asian sojourn for the visitors, who beat India 3-2 earlier this month. Imad Wasim, who takes charge of Pakistan again in Shoaib
We have compiled some of the lighter moments from the Australian summer of cricket that gave us all a laugh or made us smile
shares Glenn Maxwell flicks through midwicket © AFP Big Picture If the whole series had gone the way the fourth ODI panned out, Pakistan wouldn’t quite have minded, even if the scoreline had been the 4-0 it currently is in favour of Australia. For the first time in the series, the purpose of Pakistan
shares Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin pose ahead of the toss © BCCI Toss Kings XI Punjab chose to field v Mumbai Indians R Ashwin made one change to their line-up, and chose to chase against Mumbai Indians in the day game in Mohali. Ashwin backed his team’s record at the ground – they
10:12 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes has committed to Durham on a three-year contract extension, which will keep him at the club until 2021. Stokes, 27, has been an infrequent presence in the Durham team in recent years, with his busy international schedule limiting him to just two Championship fixtures and a handful of
2:02 PM ET England’s Test captain Joe Root has called for clarity over what constitutes an acceptable “Mankad” run-out, after being invited to contemplate a scenario in which England’s World Cup ambitions ended because of cricket’s most controversial dismissal. The issue has again become relevant after Root’s team-mate Jos Buttler, one of England’s trump cards,
11:26 PM ET Glenn Maxwell and Australia are targeting a 5-0 sweep of Pakistan to finish their dual tour of India and the UAE, which has delivered the tourists as a group and Maxwell himself an enormous amount of growth. Clearly benefiting from added responsibility as an advisor to the captain Aaron Finch, Maxwell has
Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara will be playing the final Test of his career when India and Sri Lanka meet at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo for the second Test. Even before the start of the Test series when Sangakkara had announced his retirement, tributes and good wishes had started pouring to hail the Lankan
3:00 AM ET Toss Royal Challengers Bangalore chose to bowl v Mumbai Indians Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli opted to bowl first against Mumbai Indians, with a plan to chase well on a placid pitch. The home side did not change their playing XI, as they looked to bounce back from the thrashing they
2:05 PM ET David Willey has confirmed that he has pulled out of the IPL for family reasons and will not now be playing any part in the tournament. Willey’s stint with Chennai Super Kings had been delayed because of the late birth of his second child and he feels unable to leave his wife,
3:00 AM ET Victoria 289 (Harris 141, Copeland 5-74) and 1 for 48 lead New South Wales 121 (Siddle 5-28, Pattinson 3-30) by 216 runs Peter Siddle followed his joint destruction of New South Wales – alongside James Pattinson on day two of the Sheffield Shield final – by beseeching the watching chairman of selectors
12:39 AM ET It’s just not worth the backlash for Keemo Paul anymore. West Indies’ Paul ran Zimbabwe’s Richard Ngarava out without delivering the ball in the last over of their thrilling Under-19 World Cup match in 2016. It sent West Indies to the knockouts of a tournament they would go on to win, but
3:00 AM ET Big Picture A year after picking up bans for the infamous ball-tampering episode, Steven Smith and David Warner come face to face. Too much time has passed for the Newlands scandal to remain relevant in the IPL context, of course, but Jos Buttler’s mankading incident has – albeit unwittingly – kept the
10:28 AM ET Valkerie Baynes James Vince is hoping a move to the top of the order for Hampshire in the County Championship will earn him a recall to the England side for the Ashes. After a stop-start Test career spanning 13 matches in three years and which has stalled again following one outing against
3:00 AM ET Pakistan opt to bowl v Australia For the first time this series, the side that won the toss decided to bowl first. That side was Pakistan, led by Imad Wasim in the absence of the injured Shoaib Malik on a Dubai wicket where dew is expected to play a part after the
shares Virat Kohli drives to long-off © BCCI Virat Kohli was fuming against the standard of umpiring in the IPL after the big screen showed replays of the final delivery of the match – a no-ball that wasn’t spotted by the officials. Royal Challengers Bangalore needed seven runs to win the game and six
After a winter of match-winning performances with both bat and ball for his various T20 franchises, Liam Dawson could be forgiven for being confident about his World Cup chances. A series of characteristically solid displays with his left-arm spin for Comilla Victorians preceded a handful of eye-catching knocks in the Pakistan Super League, including a
2:52 AM ET Alex Malcolm Australia fast bowler Jhye Richardson may still be fit for the World Cup after scans on his dislocated bowling shoulder cleared him of serious damage. Richardson dislocated his right shoulder diving in the field in Australia’s second ODI against Pakistan in Sharjah on March 24. Richardson was immediately flown home
shares © Getty Images Imagine being one of the biggest names in world cricket, but still unable to find a place in the playing XI when it comes to the IPL. Dale Steyn is a prime example. Given that an IPL team can field a maximum of four overseas players each game, Steyn –
1:22 PM ET Shashank Kishore Srinath Sripath Chahal reaps the rewards for no-fear attitude There’s no fear. Not even after Yuvraj Singh has walloped him for three sixes. For those two minutes, even the DJ at the Chinnaswamy Stadium seems lost. He urges the crowd to go “Aree-Ceee-Beee”, but they alternate between “Yuvi-Yuvi-Yuvi” and “we
1:43 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Essex captain Ryan ten Doeschate has not ruled out the prospect of losing Alastair Cook to an England comeback at some stage. Former England captain Cook, who scored an unbeaten 150 this week playing for Essex in a pre-season game against Cambridge University, retired from international cricket last September with
shares © AFP Big Picture Australia’s third emphatic victory in a row over Pakistan – and sixth consecutive ODI win overall – removed any pretense of series priorities to leave the remaining games as purely World Cup primers at the Dubai International Stadium. For both sides, this should offer freedom in terms of selection
Mar 27, 2019 It says a lot about cricket that more noise has been made around the spirit of cricket than the actual legality of R Ashwin‘s run-out of Jos Buttler, despite this being a rare instance where such a run-out could be questioned under the laws of the game. The decision after deliberation should
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England women 204 for 2 (Jones 57, Wyatt 51) beat Sri Lanka 108 for 6 (Karunaratne 44) by 96 runs England’s women completed their second 3-0 clean sweep on their tour of Sri Lanka, wrapping up the T20I series with their most dominant display yet in a 96-run win in
3:34 AM ET Kevin Roberts, the Cricket Australia chief executive, has called for anyone with evidence of the national team tampering with the ball prior to the Newlands Test to come forward. Roberts also conceded that further revelations about the scandal 12 months ago would be damaging to the game. Speaking at the Melbourne Press
7:20 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Phil Simmons, who was unceremoniously sacked in as West Indies coach in 2016, has reached an “amicable resolution” with Cricket West Indies, including accepting financial settlement of an undisclosed sum. A former Windies opening batsman, Simmons, who is currently the Afghanistan head coach, had lodged a case against CWI for
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