Month: February 2020
2:32 PM GMT Big Picture For both these teams, ODIs are perhaps their weakest format. Neither gave themselves a great chance of making the semi-finals in last year’s World Cup, and both have poor bilateral form, winning only two of their 10 previous series. As Sri Lanka move to the dead rubber at Pallekele after
9:23 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff This year’s four-team Women’s T20 Challenge will be played on the sidelines of the IPL playoffs at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, which had also hosted last year’s competition. The BCCI confirmed via a release on Saturday that the expanded tournament – seven matches as against four last time and
3:03 PM GMT Paul Farbrace has admitted he is “worried” about Jos Buttler‘s form, but feels England should stick with him as their keeper for the Test series in Sri Lanka. While Farbrace, England’s former assistant coach, regards Buttler as a “brilliant professional” and a “selfless cricketer” he accepts he “needs to score runs” in
11:09 AM GMT Big picture The Mashrafe Mortaza retirement speculation circus has taken the spotlight in Bangladesh, turning the ODI series against Zimbabwe into a bit of a sideshow. To add more spice to the unfolding melodrama, BCB president Nazmul Hassan has already said that this is going to be Mashrafe’s last series as captain.
11:32 AM GMT South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first vs Australia South Africa handed Janneman Malan and Kyle Verreynne ODI debuts at Paarl and picked two frontline spinners in Keshav Maharaj and Tabraiz Shamsi. Missing Kagiso Rabada, ruled out of the series late last night with a groin injury, South Africa
3:16 AM GMT New Zealand 91 (Moni 4-18) beat Bangladesh 74 (Jensen 3-11) by 17 runs Tournaments are all about surviving and advancing. New Zealand survived an almighty scare against Bangladesh at the Junction Oval, setting a new Women’s World T20 record for the lowest total defended, but will need to play much better to
5:55 AM GMT Ishant Sharma is unlikely to feature in India’s attack for the second Test against New Zealand in Christchurch, starting tomorrow. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the fast bowler has suffered a recurrence of the ankle injury that he picked up on January 20, during a Ranji Trophy match in Delhi, which had threatened
Feb 27, 2020 Rory Burns believes the injury that curtailed his winter with the Test team may prove “a good thing” for English cricket in the long term. Burns sustained serious ligament damage when playing football in warm-up the day before the second Test against South Africa. He subsequently underwent surgery and was ruled out
7:32 AM GMT Tears streamed down Bangladesh medium-pacer Ritu Moni‘s face at the Junction Oval’s press conference room as she took her mind back to where her journey began – Bogra – and to Muslim Uddin, the man who helped her live her dream. It is in Bogra, a northwestern city in Bangladesh, that the
6:00 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kagiso Rabada has sustained a groin strain and will take no further part in the Australia tour to South Africa. He has been further ruled out of the team’s subsequent tour to India starting early next month, and faces a race to get fit in time for Delhi Capitals’ IPL
5:11 PM GMT Lahore Qalandars have won the toss and as expected chose to field first in a rain-shortened affair to 12 overs, with further disruptions possible. The toss was delayed more than two hours due to poor weather in Rawalpindi before skies cleared to allow for a contest reduced by eight overs. The pitch
11:07 PM GMT New Zealand chose to bowl v India New Zealand won their second toss of the series, and asked India to bat on a green Hagley Oval pitch after a rain-enforced delayed start to play. The last time New Zealand lost a home Test after winning the toss was way back in 2009.
11:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mark Wood’s injury-plagued career has suffered another massive set-back, with the news that he will miss England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka after the re-occurrence of a left side strain. Wood was England’s stand-out seamer on the recent tour of South Africa, claiming 12 wickets in his two appearances at
In a snippet from the upcoming documentary series ‘The Test’, see how the Australian players dealt with the rowdy England fans during the away Ashes tour. Don’t miss The Test, streaming March 12 on Amazon Prime Video.
Follow India’s 2018 tour of England right here: https://www.ecb.co.uk/england/men England face a mammoth chase in order to save their hopes in the third test after India Captain, Virat Kohli struck for 103 at Trent Bridge. Strong performances from Pujara and Pandya allowed the tourists to declare on 352-7. England now need a huge 521 runs
Player of the match Avishka Fernando at Post Match Press Conference – 2nd ODI
Quinton de Kock flays one through the covers © AFP via Getty Images Big picture After a topsy-turvy T20I series, in which South Africa’s heaviest-ever short-form defeats were punctuated with a from-behind win at Port Elizabeth, these two sides head into a three-match ODI series devoid of any context in contrasting shape. Australia have picked
11:16 AM GMT England 158 for 7 (Knight 62, Aiman Anwer 3-30) beat Pakistan 116 (Shrubsole 3-25, Glenn 3-15) by 42 runs England took a stride towards qualification from Group B of the Women’s T20 World Cup by thrashing Pakistan in Canberra. After surprisingly being inserted by Pakistan’s skipper Bismah Maroof, England overcame an early
10:25 AM GMT Amid all the carnage left in the wake of the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, the city also lost its primary cricket venue, Lancaster Park. With time, the boutique Hagley Oval, located within the approximately 165-hectare Hagley Park, became the city’s new Test centre. The two venues can’t be any more dissimilar
2:38 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jasprit Bumrah has had a lean run since his return from a stress fracture, sustained last year. He showed signs off rust in his first international game, a T20I match in Indore in January, on return, and later he went wicketless in the three-match ODI series in New Zealand. In
4:33 PM GMT George Dobell Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 The PCB is hopeful that an England Lions squad will tour Pakistan next winter. ESPNcricinfo understands that the PCB’s managing director Wasim Khan has engaged in discussions with the ECB, with the hope that a
9:17 AM GMT Mushfiqur Rahim has stressed that he would not change his mind about skipping the tour of Pakistan, despite BCB president Nazmul Hassan’s tough stance on the matter, where he said that Mushfiqur was “contract-bound” to tour with the rest of the team. “I made my stance clear about Pakistan, and they [BCB]
10:43 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Adam Zampa is four years old in international cricket, and is Australia’s first-choice white-ball spinner, but he still doesn’t feel “comfortable” at this level. Although that may not necessarily be a bad thing. “Even now I don’t feel comfortable, which is probably a good thing to be honest – same
8:07 AM GMT India have lost their last four international games on their tour of New Zealand, following up a 3-0 defeat in the ODI series with a 10-wicket loss in the first Test in Wellington, which snapped a seven-match winning streak in the format. Their coach Ravi Shastri, however, isn’t perturbed. “I wouldn’t judge
5:57 PM GMT Deception and subterfuge are key parts of the armoury of a T20 death bowler, but for Tom Curran, Rajasthan Royals’ latest English recruit, those traits may have to be deployed in the nets at Jaipur too. That’s because, with the T20 World Cup looming large on the horizon, a number of his
3:25 AM GMT Australia’s World Cup campaign remains on a knife-edge but their convincing victory against Bangladesh was forged from their most convincing top-order display since the series against Sri Lanka last year. The 151-run opening stand between Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney followed two uncertain displays in the matches against India and Sri Lanka,
6:06 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sunrisers Hyderabad have announced David Warner as their captain for the upcoming IPL that starts on March 29. Warner takes over from Kane Williamson , who led the side in 2018 and 2019. Williamson was named captain in 2018 after Warner had been barred from participating in that season of
7:24 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ian Watmore has been named as the ECB’s new chairman and will succeed Colin Graves when he leaves the post in November 2020. Watmore, 61, was chief executive of the FA for nine months in 2009-10, during which time he launched the Women’s Super League and the St. George’s Park
Feb 26, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff Steven Smith, the former Australia captain, will skipper Welsh Fire in The Hundred this year. Smith was stripped of the Australian captaincy following the Newlands ball-tampering scandal in 2018, banned from playing cricket for year and barred from leading any side under Cricket Australia’s jurisdiction for a further year after
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 5
- Next Page »