11:06 AM ET Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Pat Brown was playing golf when he got a phone call from Ed Smith on Monday afternoon, and had to tell the friend he was with: “pick my ball up – I’m going to be five minutes”.
Month: September 2019
2:56 AM ET Alex Malcolm Australia’s ODI and T20 captain Aaron Finch wants to make one more push at trying to play Test cricket again after a brief and ultimately unsuccessful stint last summer. Finch was surprisingly drafted into the Test team for the UAE series against Pakistan last October, in the wake of the
4:33 PM ET Ed Smith is a man who chooses his words wisely, but on this occasion, the message from England’s chief selector could not have been clearer. Jonny Bairstow has been dropped from England’s Test team, and if he wants his place back, he needs to take a long, hard look at his own
8:13 AM ET Bangladesh coach Russell Domingo conceded that the team is yet to play a “perfect game of cricket” in the T20I tri-series, adding that to pull it off, they might field a four-man pace attack for the final against Afghanistan on Tuesday, depending on the conditions at Shere Bangla National stadium. In the
© BCCI India captain Virat Kohli has received a demerit point and an official warning for an “inappropriate” shoulder contact with South Africa quick Beuran Hendricks while taking a run during the third T20I on Sunday in Bengaluru. Kohli was found guilty of a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct. The incident
10:03 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England have dropped Jonny Bairstow from the Test squad for New Zealand, while handing first call-ups to Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley. Bairstow, who averaged 19.45 in Tests this summer, was named in the T20I squad, along with a host of new faces that includes Somerset opener Tom Banton and
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Bangladesh v Afghanistan could well become a more regular fixture in the game in the future than it is now. They don’t have a lot of encounters coming up in the next 12 months, but in the long-term, they could well meet more frequently, on the big stage, given how
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Avishka Fernando’s 82 Runs vs Bangladesh – 2nd ODI at RPICS Colombo
1:26 AM ET Sreshth Shah Madhav Apte, the former India Test opener, died in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Monday, aged 86. In his seven Tests for India in 1952-53, Apte averaged 49.27, the highlight being a match-saving, unbeaten 163 against West Indies in Port of Spain. Five of his seven Tests were played on
9:44 AM ET Soumya Sarkar and Mehidy Hasan Miraz have been picked among 13 capped players in the 16-member Bangladesh A side for their tour of Sri Lanka. Mehidy couldn’t find a place in the senior T20I side for the ongoing tri-series, while Soumya was dropped after two matches after scores of 4 and 0.
5:29 AM ET Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Cameron Bancroft will return to Durham as the club’s overseas player for the 2020 season. Bancroft captained Durham in the County Championship and the Royal London Cup this year, which represented a controversial appointment in the wake
8:32 PM ET India’s captain Virat Kohli revealed that Rishabh Pant was not supposed to bat at No. 4 in the third T20I against South Africa in Bengaluru. He admitted to a “miscommunication” between Pant and Shreyas Iyer, saying the latter was slated to bat at No.4 if India were two down within the 10th
9:03 PM ET Having spent his entire IPL career at Royal Challengers Bangalore, Virat Kohli knows that it is easier to chase at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. He knows that the dew often sets in later in the evening and neutralises the threat posed by his spinners. Yet, with the series on the line, he
10:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ahead of the Under-19 World Cup next year, Bangladesh will have an opportunity to gain match time when they play New Zealand in five Youth ODIs. The tour is significant given this will be the first time a Bangladesh team will travel to New Zealand following the terror attacks in
3:00 AM ET Karthik Krishnaswamy Toss India chose to bat v South Africa With one eye already on next year’s T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli’s India have chosen to bat first at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, a venue where teams usually prefer to chase. In fact, this was the first time in seven T20Is at the
7:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Two new teams – Qalandars and Bangla Tigers – will take part in this year’s T10 League in Abu Dhabi. The latest team, Qalandars, was unveiled on Sunday, with Shahid Afridi signing on as the franchise’s icon player. Qalandars have close links with their Pakistan Super League (PSL) namesake Lahore
5:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar believes India could send Rishabh Pant in at No. 5 in limited-overs cricket to allow the wicketkeeper-batsman to play his aggressive, natural game. Pant was the subject of a debate last week, after India’s newly appointed batting coach Vikram Rathour said the wicketkeeper-batsman was among
3:00 AM ET Alex Malcolm Queensland 6 for 307 (Heazlett 70, Labuschagne 67, Burns 54*, Wildermuth 51, Conway 3-72) defeated New South Wales 5 for 305 (Jack Edwards 84, Bertus 69*, Stanlake 2-49) by four wickets Half-centuries from Jack Wildermuth and Joe Burns helped steer Queensland to a relatively comfortable four-wicket win over New South
3:00 AM ET Toss Bangladesh chose to bowl v Afghanistan Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan chose to bowl against Afghanistan in the last league game of the tri-series. Both sides made it to the final to be played on September 24, although Afghanistan’s 13-match winning streak was broken yesterday when Zimbabwe beat them by seven
Mohammad Nawaz celebrates a wicket © Associated Press Batsman Iftikhar Ahmed and spin-bowling allrounder Mohammad Nawaz have made comebacks to Pakistan’s ODI squad. Both were part of the first squad announced by Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan’s new coach and chief selector, ahead of the three-match series against Sri Lanka that is due to take place later this
3:24 PM ET Liam Plunkett says that “disappointment is an understatement” after he was surprisingly overlooked in England’s list of centrally contracted white-ball players for 2019-20. Plunkett played a key role in England’s maiden World Cup triumph this summer, including three wickets in their victory in the final against New Zealand at Lord’s, and has
2:41 AM ET Alex Malcolm Australia fast bowler Jason Behrendorff has been ruled out of action indefinitely due to ongoing back issues as he considers all options including the same lower spine surgery that James Pattinson underwent to prolong his career. Behrendorff, the 29-year-old left-armer from Western Australia, was forced home from a short stint
5:52 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer’s rise in England cricket continues after being awarded an ECB central contract across all formats. Barbados-born Archer only made his international debut in May shortly after he qualified to represent England and then went on to play a crucial role in the triumphant World Cup campaign and the
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 417 (Gill 92, Nair 78, Dube 68, Mulder 3-47, Piedt 3-78) and 202 for 3 dec (Panchal 109, Nair 51*, Piedt 2-88) drew with South Africa A 400 (Markram 161, Mulder 131*, de Bruyn 41, Kuldeep 4-121, Nadeem 3-76) Priyank Panchal scored a century and Karun Nair hit
12:52 PM ET Umar Farooq in Lahore When Waqar Younis twice served as the Pakistan head coach in the past – 2010 to 2011 and 2014 to 2016 – Misbah-ul-Haq was the Test captain on both occasions. Three-and-a-half years since his last stint with the team, Waqar has returned to the support staff set-up as
6:42 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kuldeep Yadav hasn’t been part of the last two T20I squads India’s selectors have chosen, for the West Indies tour and at home against South Africa, but that hasn’t dented his confidence. Kuldeep was instead picked in the India A side for the second unofficial Test against South Africa A,
Play 02:00 ‘Morgan provides important consistency’ – Giles Moeen Ali will miss England’s two Tests in New Zealand in November, and may also be omitted from the red-ball leg of the South Africa tour in December and January, after requesting a break from Test cricket in the wake of a gruelling English season. The news
3:00 AM ET Toss Afghanistan opt to bowl v Zimbabwe Afghanistan will bat first against Zimbabwe in the fifth match of the T20 tri-series in Chattogram. Already assured of their place in next week’s final, Afghanistan made three changes to their playing XI, handing an international debut to allrounder Fazal Niazai. The match is essentially
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