Preview India may continue to test their bench strength having already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series Big picture India shut the door on Sri Lanka in the first ODI. In the second match, Sri Lanka failed to close out the game. And just like that, in a matter of three days, the
News Cornell took the original idea to Kerry Packer for a competition that would change world cricket John Cornell, the Australian TV and film icon and one of the major architects behind World Series Cricket, has died at the age of 80 after a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Cornell played a central role in
News The former spinner reveals several instances of racial discrimination across his playing and coaching career Former South African wristspinner Paul Adams has revealed several instances of racial discrimination, including being nicknamed “brown s***” by his team-mates, across his playing and coaching career. Speaking at Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) Social Justice and Nation-Building hearings, Adams
Angelo Mathews 87 Runs vs Bangladesh – 3rd ODI at RPICS Colombo
ENG vs IND: Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara during the warm-up game.© Twitter Mayank Agarwal and Hanuma Vihari spent some valuable time in the middle while Ravindra Jadeja scored his second fifty of the game on the final day of India’s warm-up match against County XI, on Thursday. After bowling out County XI for 220 on
News Sri Lanka captain also hopes their fast-bowling reserves will improve in the future For many fans watching on, let alone the players, the manner of Sri Lanka’s defeat in the second ODI was particularly tough to take. Amid one of the worst streaks in the country’s cricketing history, the opportunity to get one over
Report Jadeja scored his second half-century of the match Indians 311 (Rahul 111, Jadeja 75, Miles 4-45) and 192 for 3 dec (Jadeja 51, Agarwal 47, Vihari 43*, Carson 2-64) drew with County Select XI 220 (Hameed 112, Yadav 3-22, Siraj 2-32) and 31 for 0 (Libby 17*, Hameed 13*) Ravindra Jadeja made his second
News BCB cricket operations chairman says CA “didn’t agree to Mushfiq entering quarantine two days after it began” Mushfiqur Rahim will miss Bangladesh’s T20I series against Australia next month after he was unable to join the rest of the team in time for a ten-day quarantine in Dhaka. The quarantine was originally set to begin
Report Hope replaces Shimron Hetymer in the West Indies side Australia won the toss and decided to bat against West Indies Australia captain Alex Carey was able to take the same route as the opening game as he won the toss and opted to bat first in Barbados. Carey was again leading the side in
Report Barry McCarthy was left out for Craig Young in the Ireland XI, as the tour moves to Belfast Toss South Africa opt to bat v Ireland South Africa have made three changes to the XI that took the series against Ireland on Monday to try a different combination as they prepare for the T20
News It would appear, meanwhile, that the injured Shubman Gill is now back in India Rishabh Pant has joined the India squad after recovering from Covid-19 and completing his mandatory period of isolation. Pant tested positive on July 8, and had not travelled with the rest of the team to Durham, where the Indians are
Report Hosts are without Taylor and Williams; Naim comes in for Bangladesh Sikandar Raza, the Zimbabwe captain, decided to bat first in the first T20I against Bangladesh, who are playing their 100th T20I, in Harare. Raza last captained Zimbabwe in a T20I in 2015, where they beat India by 10 runs. The hosts are without
News This will be Australia’s first tour to Bangladesh since 2017 The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have confirmed that Australia will arrive in Dhaka on July 29 to play five T20Is against Bangladesh, from August 3 to 9. Australia will comply with local health regulations by being quarantined in their hotel rooms for three days
News Bairstow, Buttler, Curran, Stokes also return, but Woakes, Archer are not fit for selection Ollie Robinson has been recalled to England’s Test squad in the wake of his suspension during the New Zealand series, as Chris Silverwood, the head coach, named a 17-player squad for the opening two Tests against India, starting at Trent
News Bowler has suffered a fractured left thumb in the Indians’ warm-up match against County Select XI Avesh Khan‘s tour of England is likely to have come to an end as ESPNcricinfo has learned that the Madhya Pradesh fast bowler has suffered a fracture in his left thumb, which he hurt on the first day
Play 01:05 Alex Carey: Starc, Hazlewood put on a clinic in the first 10 overs Big Picture Australia continue to look much more at home in the 50-over format than the T20 game, which has pretty much been the way over the last year. Their strength on this tour lies in the bowling department and
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Young opener Haseeb Hameed celebrated his Test recall with a gritty hundred even as Umesh Yadav bowled a few incisive spells and was largely responsible in India bowling Select County XI out for 220 on the second day of the warm-up first-class game. Coming back into the England squad after nearly five years, right-handed opener
News Tabraiz Shamsi replaces the Nepal legspinner in the Oval Invincibles squad Sandeep Lamichhane has urged the ECB to give him “a clear answer” after visa issues ruled him out of the Oval Incincibles’ side for the inaugural season of the Hundred. In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Lamichhane said he was “extremely
Report Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Siraj pick up five wickets between them to earn the visitors a 91-run lead Indians 311 (Rahul 111, Jadeja 75, Miles 4-45) lead County Select XI 220 (Hameed 112, Yadav 3-22, Siraj 2-32) by 91 runs For a better part of the last ten years, the Indians have preferred to
Preview If Ireland want to test themselves before the T20 World Cup, this is their chance Big Picture South Africa are one win away from being able to declare their winter tours successful bar one ODI defeat. Victory in the T20I series will give them three trophies out of four, after they swept West Indies
Preview The hosts were swept 3-0 in the preceding ODI series Big Picture The opening T20I against Zimbabwe will be Bangladesh’s first of potentially 16 matches in their lead-up to the T20 World Cup in October-November, including matches against Australia, New Zealand and England. In the injury-enforced absence of Tamim Iqbal, Bangladesh’s batting line-up will
News Spin might not play as a big a role in the UAE in October-November as anticipated, says England captain Eoin Morgan does not expect pitches to be conducive to spin in the T20 World Cup in October-November, and feels there are still spots up for grabs in the England set-up despite the fact that
News ‘We’re a young team. We haven’t won much recently, and we’re trying to do our best to play together for our country’ After a stretch of losses, Sri Lanka had an ODI victory in their grasp, but let it slip. For a team low on confidence, it had to have been devastating. Batter Charith
News All competitions have been scheduled in full with the Sheffield Shield due to start late September Cricket Australia hopes to play all its domestic competitions in full during the 2020-21 summer, including one of the earliest starts to the Sheffield Shield, although plans could be threatened by Covid-19. The Sheffield Shield and Marsh One-Day
Katherine Brunt, the longest-serving member of the England women’s squad, has warned her peers not to lose sight of the huge progress made by their game, after a gender pay row threatened to overshadow Wednesday’s standalone opening fixture of the Hundred. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, several of the more junior members
Report Both Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane were rested for the fixture following fitness concerns Indians 306 for 9 (Rahul 101 retired out, Jadeja 75, Miles 3-42) vs County Select XI KL Rahul made his case for a Test return with a polished century on the first day of India’s warm-up fixture against County Select
News Bangladesh’s young players step up to seal a 3-0 sweep over Zimbabwe Two critical moments in the third ODI demanded that Bangladesh find someone besides their experienced trio to help the team turn a corner. On both occasions, the “other guys” came through. Nurul Hasan will take the headlines. The 27-year old was playing
Play 01:18 Carey excited by captaincy opportunity in Finch’s absence Australia won the toss and decided to bat against West Indies The coin fell Alex Carey’s way in his first match as Australia captain with the visitors also handing out three debuts in the opening ODIs while West Indies have parachuted legpsinner Hayden Walsh Jr