Keshav Maharaj claimed a hard-earned five-wicket haul © Stu Forster/Getty Images It’s a thankless job. Keshav Maharaj‘s sixth career five-for came as a result of him bowling more overs than a South African has delivered in a home Test in 55 years and was also the most expensive by a South African bowler, ever. It’s
Month: January 2020
Misbah-ul-Haq speaks to the press © PCB Perhaps the most accurate word to describe Misbah ul Haq‘s time as Pakistan’s captain was foresight. It is the reason he never seemed to panic. If Plan A didn’t work out, he had Plan B, C, all the way through to Z. After that, you felt he could
6:20 PM GMT Nagraj Gollapudi Close News editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo Vishal Dikshit In a heartfelt tribute to Bapu Nadkarni, who died on Friday aged 86, Sunil Gavaskar has hailed the former India allrounder’s attitude and cricketing acumen. Gavaskar was in Rajkot, as part of the commentators’ panel for the
8:00 AM GMT South Africa 60 for 2 (Bess 2-12) trail England 499 for 9 dec (Pope 135*, Stokes 117, Maharaj 5-180) by 439 runs Ollie Pope scored a maiden Test hundred to follow the latest demonstration of Ben Stokes‘ immense value to the England cause as South Africa were backed into a corner in
3:44 PM GMT Five members of Bangladesh’s coaching staff will not be going to the first leg of Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan later this month. According to BCB’s cricket operations chairman Akram Khan, Neil McKenzie, the white-ball batting coach, is among those who have withdrawn alongside fielding coach Ryan Cook. The BCB preferred not to
Kagiso Rabada roars in celebration after bowling Joe Root © Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Kagiso Rabada will miss the Johannesburg Test after being sanctioned for his celebration following the dismissal of Joe Root on the first day of the Port Elizabeth Test. Rabada was found guilty of a level one offence. He was fined 15 percent of
12:16 PM GMT Mohammad Hafeez last played a T20I in November 2018. Since then, he has featured in various T20 competitions at home and abroad, and his record in that period has been modest: 509 runs in 26 matches at an average of 21.20 and a strike rate of 107.38; 16 wickets at 33.75, and
KS Bharat drives through the covers © Andhra Cricket Association India have called up Andhra wicketkeeper-batsman KS Bharat as cover for the injured Rishabh Pant, just before the second ODI in Rajkot on Friday. While KL Rahul is expected to keep wickets in Rajkot, Bharat has been added to the squad in case the Indian
2:26 PM GMT Moeen Ali has claimed he is “refreshed and ready to go” after taking a break from international cricket, but says he has yet to make a decision on whether he will return to Test cricket for England’s tour of Sri Lanka in March. Moeen, who asked for a break from Test cricket
© Getty Images Mushfiqur Rahim has told Bangladesh chief selector Minhajul Abedin that he will not be travelling to Pakistan for the T20Is that start on January 24. Abedin told news agency AFP: “Mushfiqur rang me today to inform me that he will not go to Pakistan. We are now awaiting his formal letter. Once
© AFP Toss Australia chose to bowl v India India lost the toss in what is a must-win match in their third straight limited-overs series. Asked to bat first, Virat Kohli said he didn’t expect dew to play a significant role in Rajkot. He said he expected dew to show up only after 8.30pm, by
3:31 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Temba Bavuma pitched his case for Test selection with a career-best first-class score of 180 on Thursday, before suggesting that he had grabbed his opportunity to spend time in the middle “with both hands”. Faced with an improbable fourth-innings target of 430, Bavuma resumed his innings on 41 after Lions
8:56 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff MS Dhoni is missing from BCCI’s annual retainers’ list for 2019-20. Dhoni, who had been awarded a Grade A contract, the second-most lucrative retainer, in 2019, has not played a single professional game since the World Cup semi-final against New Zealand last year. India coach Ravi Shastri, though, stressed that
8:00 AM GMT England 224 for 4 (Crawley 44) v South Africa Test cricket can do funny things to your perception of time, and you can’t have the drama of fifth-day finishes such as the Cape Town Test without some longueurs in between. However, by any measure this was slow going as the series resumed
7:46 AM GMT Annabel Sutherland knows as well as anyone that outward displays of emotion have never come too easily to her father. And for 17 years as Cricket Australia’s chief executive, James Sutherland wisely thought it best to maintain plenty of reserve in his frequent public appearances to discuss the game and, more often
Kagiso Rabada roars in celebration after bowling Joe Root © Marco Longari/AFP/Getty If you want to guess how much goes on in Port Elizabeth, use today’s play as your most revealing clue. With 224 runs scored and four wickets taken, you will conclude that not that much happened and you would not be wrong, on
2:17 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Despite the discussion over reducing Test cricket from five days to four, Anil Kumble, former India captain and ICC cricket committee chairman, believes that the longest form of the game will continue to enjoy support in the playing community for lot longer than is being predicted. Kumble was talking about
7:22 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Lisa Keightley believes her new England team can be a cool, confident outfit capable of reaching the Women’s T20 World Cup final in less than two months’ time. Keightley, the first woman to be appointed full-time head coach of the England Women’s team, has had mere weeks in the role,
12:36 PM GMT Vishal Dikshit in Rajkot Adam Zampa wouldn’t have imagined dismissing Virat Kohli in Mumbai – for the fourth time in ODIs – would be the talk of the town even in Rajkot. As he arrived for the pre-match press conference on Thursday, everyone wanted to know his approach and mindset while bowling
12:51 PM GMT Faf du Plessis will not be drawn into a social (or any other kind) of media battle over his form or comparisons with other players, specifically Temba Bavuma, who continues to crop up in conversations despite not playing in South Africa’s ongoing series against England. Bavuma was dropped for the Newlands Test
10:11 AM GMT The experienced pair of Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez will return to the Pakistan side for the T20I series against Bangladesh next week. Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz have been left out, with pace bowler Muhammad Musa keeping his place in the shortest format, while batsman Ahsan Ali and fast bowler Amad
Jan 15, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin will join Yorkshire for most of this year’s County Championship season. The club said 33-year-old Ashwin would become their “frontline overseas spinner” playing at least eight Championship matches once his IPL commitments with Delhi Capitals end and following a seven-day break immediately afterwards, requested by the BCCI. He
Wayne Larkins of England celebrates the winning run during the 1st Test match in Jamaica. © Getty Images As England take the field for their 500th overseas Test at Port Elizabeth (which was, coincidentally, the scene of their first in South Africa in 1899), ESPNcricinfo takes a look back at ten of their finest away
8:00 AM GMT Big Picture India won’t ideally like to use it as an excuse, but ODIs are their No. 3 priority this year. Their opponents have come fully armed. The 10-wicket win in the series opener was not entirely unexpected. India were without Hardik Pandya and Bhvuneshwar Kumar, they were experimenting with their batting
8:00 AM GMT Ireland 208 for 7 (Stirling 95, O’Brien 48, Bravo 2-28, Cottrell 2-37, Pierre 2-45) beat West Indies 204 for 7 (Lewis 53, Pollard 31, Little 3-29, Young 2-31) by four runs Ireland had come desperately close to beating West Indies in the second match of their ODI series. On Wednesday, they actually
2:10 PM GMT AB de Villiers is set to play in at least one of South Africa’s T20 series before the T20 World Cup, where he is expected to make an international comeback. De Villiers, who retired in May 2018, and long-time friend and current T20 captain Faf du Plessis have been in talks since
3:56 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Allrounder Sophie Devine is set to lead New Zealand at the Women’s T20 World Cup, having been named captain on Thursday. Devine takes over indefinitely from Amy Satterthwaite, who recently gave birth to her first child. Devine’s first assignment as full-time New Zealand captain will be the three ODIs and
8:22 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff India captain Virat Kohli has said that he will rethink his batting at No.4 after another failure at that position in the side’s ten-wicket defeat in the ODI series opener against Australia in Mumbai on Tuesday. There has been plenty of chatter around India’s top-order combination, with the return of
10:48 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff James Anderson says that the injury that forced his withdrawal from England’s tour of South Africa was the “most pain I’ve ever been in on a cricket field”, but insists he may yet be fit to take part in the tour of Sri Lanka in March, after being diagnosed with
10:34 PM GMT Sophie Molineux has returned to the Australia side after she took mental health leave and the teenager Annabel Sutherland is in line for her international debut at the T20 World Cup that will culminate in the tournament final at the MCG on March 8 – international women’s day. In a squad that
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