5:16 AM GMT Dinesh Karthik, who has been out of India’s limited-overs squads since after the 50-over World Cup in England and Wales, is hoping to take the finisher’s route back to the national T20I side. Karthik has been in stellar finishing form for Tamil Nadu in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 50-over tournament, and
Month: October 2019
7:26 AM GMT Drew Ginn’s first significant move as the new high-performance supremo for Cricket Australia has been to sever a key link to the Pat Howard era by moving on Darren Holder, the Brisbane-based elite coaching manager who had helped the governing body take a top-down approach to the way the nation’s best cricketers
Oct 17, 2019 Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo The Vijay Hazare Trophy quarter-finals will have a star-studded line-up, with domestic heavyweights Karnataka, Mumbai, Delhi and Tamil Nadu all qualifying for the knockouts. All four quarter-final games will take place in Bengaluru on October 20 and 21. Karnataka, the Group
2:54 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Zimbabwe Cricket has avoided what its board chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani called a “disastrous,” situation by being reinstated as a Full Member of the ICC. Zimbabwe were let back into the fold after satisfactorily showing the ICC there was not outside influence in the running of its board. ZC was banned
7:00 AM GMT Stumps India 224 for 3 (Rohit 117*, Rahane 83*, Rabada 2-54, Nortje 1-50) v South Africa It started so promisingly even though South Africa lost their tenth straight toss in the subcontinent. New coin tosser Temba Bavuma called wrong, and South Africa, with five changes, had to bowl first, again. But for
8:25 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff In a stinging retort to the BCB’s new rule that legspinners must bowl four overs in every innings of the Bangladesh Premier League, Shakib Al Hasan has said that the T20 league cannot be expected to “make” players. He also drew attention to the poor pay structure and training facilities
9:39 AM GMT The past, present and most definitely the future of the Australian cricket team was on display at North Sydney Oval on Friday. Alex Blackwell, who was capped 251 times by her country, padded up for another WBBL season and struck 56 off 38 balls. Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy, two stars of
4:01 PM GMT Danyal Rasool It is a fact universally acknowledged that things change dramatically in Pakistan cricket, but the symmetry of the latest development coming out from the PCB is so neat it might have been considered too corny for fiction. In January 2017, after a 4-1 ODI series thumping in Australia, Azhar Ali
4:07 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The New Zealand season gets into full swing next week with a star-studded start to the Plunket Shield, and the arrival of England ahead of their T20I and Test series. With 25 players having completed a T20 training camp in Christchurch, the focus will now switch back to domestic action
2:42 PM GMT Former India women captains Diana Edulji and Shanta Rangaswamy have pulled up the BCCI management over the appointments of ad-hoc assistant coaches for the Indian women’s team, which they point out were done without the consent of the women’s selection committee. On Friday both women sent separate e-mails to BCCI chief executive
4:12 AM GMT Alex Malcolm Australia limited-overs captain Aaron Finch is battling a side strain and may not play for Victoria in the Marsh Cup ahead of Australia’s opening T20I against Sri Lanka in Adelaide next Sunday. Finch did not play in the Sheffield Shield clash against Western Australia which started on Friday despite flying
6:20 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Darren Bravo was dropped from West Indies’ squad for the one-off Test against Afghanistan, but former fast bowler and current commentator Michael Holding believes the left-hand batsman is “too talented to be left out”. ALSO READ – West Indies selector Roger Harper backs Bravo to return to Test side Holding’s
4:23 PM GMT Sarfaraz Ahmed is gone as Pakistan captain and it has looked like he’s been going for some time now. Even before Andile Phehlukwayo happened. Quite a bit before that. Some stray thoughts and observations in the aftermath of his sacking. Sarfaraz’s sacking wasn’t unexpected and neither is it entirely unjustified If there
3:32 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem has been added to India’s squad on the eve of the third Test against South Africa in Ranchi, with Kuldeep Yadav having complained of shoulder pain on Friday. Nadeem has been a consistent performer in domestic cricket for several years, and has the distinction of having
11:32 AM GMT Gulam Bodi, the former South Africa and Lions batsman, has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of corruption in a landmark case in South Africa. Bodi, who has two ODI and one T20 international cap, is the first person to be imprisoned under the Prevention
8:29 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sarfaraz Ahmed has been sacked as Pakistan’s Test and T20I captain ahead of the November-December tour of Australia, and has also been dropped from both the teams following a run of poor form in the two formats. In his place, Azhar Ali has been named the Test captain and Babar
7:00 AM GMT Big picture How exactly do South Africa climb out of the hole they are in? Forget winning, how do they even grapple for a draw in the third Test in Ranchi, after losing the first and second Tests by big margins? They have competed well in patches in both Tests, but fallen
9:22 AM GMT The ECB has denied suggestions that it has attempted to play down the success of the T20 Blast. Several counties were set to celebrate the competition’s ticket sales exceeding one million for the first time in 2019 when an apparent change to the reporting system saw the figure fall well short. On
2:25 PM GMT Madushka Balasuriya With the T20 World Cup less than a year away, Sri Lanka believe this month’s tour of Australia – where the World Cup will be held – will prove the ideal testing ground for their crop of youngsters to prove themselves in conditions Down Under. “I’m happy [that such a
1:18 PM GMT Vishal Dikshit in Mumbai Former West Indies captain and batting great Brian Lara believes appointing Kieron Pollard as the ODI and T20I captain is “a step in the right direction,” but he has urged Cricket West Indies to focus more on developing players for Test cricket. “He’s got some good experience,” Lara
12:52 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Batsmen Bhanuka Rajapaksa and Oshada Fernando have been retained in Sri Lanka’s full-strength squad for the T20I tour of Australia. Lasith Malinga (capt.), Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis, Danushka Gunathilaka, Avishka Fernando, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Dasun Shanaka, Shehan Jayasuriya, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Oshada Fernando, Wanindu Hasaranga, Lakshan Sandakan, Nuwan Pradeep, Lahiru Kumara,
4:54 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kumar Sangakkara says that a balanced bowling attack is the key to winning crunch games in short-form cricket, and that he would select a bowler if he was given first pick in the inaugural draft for The Hundred this Sunday. 239 overseas players have registered for the draft and will
5:23 AM GMT South Africa have suffered heavy defeats in the Visakhapatnam and Pune Tests and have come to Ranchi with the three-match series already lost. As much as dead rubbers are no longer a thing in the World Test Championship, with 40 points up for grabs for the winner of the third Test, it
Oct 17, 2019 Vishal Dikshit A “force to reckon with” no matter where they play in the world, with an “unbelievable” bowling attack and an “ultimate captain” who leads from the front, is what West Indies great Brian Lara thinks of the current India team. The Indians, under Virat Kohli, has been ranked No. 1
Oct 17, 2019 In November 2008, Indian cricket witnessed one of its more poignant sights when Sourav Ganguly was asked by MS Dhoni, the captain, to lead out the Indian team in the closing moments of Ganguly’s farewell Test. The back story to that decision added to the sentiment of the moment – earlier that
7:57 PM GMT The ECB are set for an uncomfortable afternoon after news that Andy Nash has been called to give evidence to the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS). Colin Graves, the ECB chairman, and Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, had already been called to give evidence to the
Oct 17, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Jeetan Patel will join England’s T20I set-up in his native New Zealand in a new role as spin-bowling consultant next month, in what he hopes will be the first step in a future career as a coach. Patel will join up with the England squad when they arrive in Christchurch
Oct 17, 2019 The BCB have dismissed two NCL coaches for failing to carry out the board’s directives. Rangpur Division coach Masud Parvez Razan didn’t pick Fardeen Hasan, and legspinner Rishad Hossain, while Dhaka Division coach Jahangir Alam also lost his job for not picking legspinner Jubair Hossain in the playing XI during the second
Oct 17, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny and paceman Al-Amin Hossain have been recalled to Bangladesh’s T20I squad for their three-match series against India next month. Both of them had last played a T20I in 2016. Squad: Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Tamim Iqbal, Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, Mohammad Naim, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah, Afif
4:04 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kurtis Patterson‘s hopes of forcing his way into the selectors’ thoughts for the opening Test of the summer have taken another blow after he re-injured his left quad on the first day against Tasmania. Patterson missed the opening round of Sheffield Shield matches after picking up the original injury playing
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