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Jul 15, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff India A 295 for 6 (Pandey 100, Gill 77, Cornwall 2-37) beat West Indies A 147 (Paul 34, Krunal 5-25) by 148 runs Three days before the selectors meet to pick India’s senior squad for the Caribbean tour, Manish Pandey, the A team captain, made a statement with an 86-ball

5:38 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI has called for applications for the entire roster of support staff for the India senior men’s cricket team, which ended its World Cup 2019 campaign with a semi-final defeat to New Zealand. The contracts of the coaching staff, led by head coach Ravi Shastri, run up to the

2:55 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kolkata Knight Riders’ IPL campaign next year will have a new think-tank after the management announced changes to the franchise’s coaching set-up. The two-time IPL champions parted ways with head coach Jacques Kallis and assistant coach Simon Katich on Sunday, the former ending a nine-year relationship – as player and

KL Rahul ducks to avoid a bouncer © AP Photo India coach Ravi Shastri has acknowledged that the team missed a “solid” middle-order batsman, particularly in the semi-final, where their leading run-scorers Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were dismissed cheaply. His statements come in the context of the talk – from before the World Cup

11:06 AM ET “Baffling.” That was the word former India captain Sunil Gavaskar used to express his disappointment with the Indian team management’s decisions ahead of, and during, their World Cup 2019 campaign. India had topped the league stage of the tournament, but lost by 18 runs against fourth-placed New Zealand in a thrilling semi-final.

6:28 PM ET India lost the World Cup semi-final in the first 45 minutes of their chase against New Zealand, and will now return home “heartbroken”, according to their captain, Virat Kohli, who nevertheless insisted that his team had done a “commendable” job in the course of the tournament. The several hundred India fans, who

© Associated Press Heavy favourites coming into their World Cup 2019 semi-final after topping the league stage, India’s campaign came to an end in a thriller at Old Trafford and captain Virat Kohli admitted New Zealand got through to the final because “they were far sharper when it came to the crunch moments.” “It always

3:00 AM ET 46.1 overs New Zealand 211 for 5 (Taylor 67*, Williamson 67, Bumrah 1-25, Bhuvneshwar 1-30) v IndiaAs it happened Rain pushed the Old Trafford semi-final between India and New Zealand into its reserve day. When the players went off the field at the start of the 47th over, New Zealand had struggled

11:54 AM ET We all know it, but there’s no harm repeating it – Virat Kohli has not scored a century in the World Cup. In fact, Kohli has not reached three figures in his last ten ODI innings. The last time he experienced such a barren stretch was in the five-month period between January

3:00 AM ET Big picture Brathwaite c Boult b Neesham 101. It’s been 16 days since that happened, and it’ll be 17 days when tomorrow’s semi-final begins. For New Zealand, it will be 17 winless days. And yet, here they are, two wins away from getting their hands on the World Cup. The carping about

9:02 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff At two matches during the ongoing World Cup, airplanes have flown over Headingley carrying political messages. The BCCI has asked the ICC to ensure that there is no repeat of this in the remaining games. Three political banners were visible during Saturday’s match between India and Sri Lanka at Headingley.

4:51 PM ET Dhananjaya de Silva tossed an offbreak on fourth stump. The ball was in the slot. Rohit Sharma stood his ground and hit an inside-out six high over extra cover. Effortlessly. It was a full-blooded stroke as the ball banged the advertising board and rolled back on to the playing turf. Two balls

3:00 AM ET India 265 for 3 (Rahul 111, Rohit 103) beat Sri Lanka 264 for 7 (Mathews 113, Thirimanne 53, Bumrah 3-37) by seven wicketsAs it happened India didn’t quite get to test their middle order one last time before the semi-final, but Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul put up India’s fourth century for

8:59 AM ET Rahul Dravid is set to take charge as head of cricket operations at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru, with an eye on converting the academy into a high-performance centre, the BCCI’s target for a long time now. Although the tenure of the contract could not be ascertained, ESPNcricinfo understands that it

4:31 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff An injury to batsman Prithvi Shaw has ruled him out of the one-day leg of India A’s tour of the Caribbean beginning on July 11. The nature of his injury is as yet unknown, but Shaw is currently undergoing rehabilitation at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru. This opens

5:03 AM ET Middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu has communicated his decision to retire from all forms of cricket, two months after being controversially left out of India’s World Cup squad. “I would like to bring to your kind notice that I have come to decision to step away from the sport and retire from all

3:00 AM ET India 314 for 9 (Rohit 104, Rahul 77, Pant 48, Mustafizur 5-59) beat Bangladesh 286 (Shakib 66, Saifuddin 51, Bumrah 4-55, Pandya 3-60) by 28 runsAs it happened Bangladesh are out of the 2019 World Cup. They’ve beaten the teams they were expected to beat, and also a couple they may not

12:12 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Smriti Mandhana, the star performer in Western Storm’s ride to the Kia Super League semi-final in 2018, will rejoin the team for the upcoming 2019 season, alongside India team-mate Deepti Sharma. Mandhana, the 22-year-old opener, topped the KSL batting charts last year with 421 runs at an average of 60.14

3:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Ranji Trophy is set to spill over into March for the first time in 16 years, following the BCCI’s decision to advance the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, the domestic T20 competition, prior to the IPL auction, which is generally held in December-January. As per the preliminary fixtures for the

2:00 PM ET Has MS Dhoni, India’s most senior player, made an impact this World Cup? Depends on who you ask. Outside the Indian dressing room, the verdict is largely against Dhoni. Within it, there is only support for him. India captain Virat Kohli has made it clear he sees it as a non-issue whenever

4:27 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Vijay Shankar‘s World Cup is over. The news was confirmed by the BCCI on Monday, a day after he missed the England clash at Edgbaston because of a toe injury. Mayank Agarwal is set to fly out as his replacement and will join the squad later this week. India have

7:50 PM ET Chasing a total as steep as 338, India made just 28 runs in the first Powerplay. Then in the final five overs of the innings MS Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav managed to hit just three fours and six while picking up 20 singles and playing out six dots. It might be difficult

12:09 PM ET “He’s been doing the same thing for as long as I can remember, since the time he started playing cricket. This is what he’s been doing, performing consistently. No matter what conditions, what wicket conditions, who the bowlers are, he always finds a way to get runs, always finds a way to

Jun 14, 2019 Annesha Ghosh Deepti Sharma has become the latest Indian to join the Kia Super League, signing up for the upcoming season with Western Storm, who had Smriti Mandhana in their ranks last season. ESPNcricinfo understands that Lancashire Thunder, who had recruited India T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur last season, had also expressed interest

2:15 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli is least affected by the criticism surrounding MS Dhoni‘s batting approach in the middle overs of an ODI innings, particularly against spin. This even as Dhoni’s former team-mates Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman questioned the logic of his slow pace, arguing that it hasn’t helped India’s cause in

3:00 AM ET India 268 for 7 (Kohli 72, Dhoni 56*, Rahul 48, Hardik 46, Roach 3-36, Holder 2-33, Cottrell 2-50) beat West Indies 143 all out (Shami 4-16, Bumrah 2-9, Chahal 2-39) by 125 runs As it happened India’s bowlers nullified yet another middling batting performance, pounding West Indies into the ground long before

Sheldon Cottrell celebrates taking the wicket of Australia’s David Warner with his teammates © Getty Images Big Picture Twenty six years after India sprung a surprise on West Indies in that final, the two sides meet again at Old Trafford with plenty on the line. Carlos Brathwaite fell inches short on Saturday, but it’s not

12:04 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Manpreet Gony, the 35-year-old medium-pacer from Punjab, has officially announced his retirement from all forms of cricket except overseas short-format leagues. He also signed up for Toronto Nationals in the Global T20 Canada league, following in the footsteps of his statemate, Yuvraj Singh. Gony made his first-class debut in 2007

9:31 PM ET An hour before the match on Saturday, Jasprit Bumrah was bowling at the spring rubber stumps on one of the practice strips. There was no batsman, the stumps his only target. Bumrah was practising the yorkers. One of the first balls he delivered pitched inches in front of the leg stump and

As Mohammad Shami ran in to deliver the hat-trick ball, he had MS Dhoni’s words in mind. Afghanistan needed 12 off three balls, but were nine down. Only one Indian – Chetan Sharma – had taken a World Cup hat-trick earlier, in 1987. This was his chance to join an elite club. And he did