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Month: February 2020
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Thisara Perera smashes the ball down the ground © AFP Thisara Perera has made a return to Sri Lanka’s T20I squad after missing the series in India, while fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep and spin-bowling allrounder Shehan Jayasuriya also earn recalls. There was no room, however, for batsmen such as Bhanuka Rajapaksa and Oshada Fernando, who
11:40 AM GMT ESPN Staff February 28: Women’s T20 World Cup – South Africa v Thailand, Canberra Our XI: Lizelle Lee, Nannapat Koncharoenkai, Nattakan Chantam, Nattaya Boochatham, Chloe Tryon, Marizanne Kapp, Dane van Niekerk, Sune Luus, Shabnim Ismail, Ayabonga Khaka, Suleeporn Laomi Captain: Dane van Niekerk Captain of the South Africa side, one of their
10:49 AM GMT The pitch in Christchurch for the second New Zealand-India Test looks as green as the one that was rolled out for the first Test in Wellington, but India might be expecting life to be a little easier for their batsmen. While there might be a similar amount of seam and swing, especially
11:20 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Joe Root has advocated the use of the Kookaburra ball for half of the County Championship season and an increase in the value of batting bonus points. A switch from the current Dukes ball, which has a more prominent seam and favours old-fashioned swing bowlers, to a Kookaburra for some
11:30 AM GMT Australia 189 for 1 (Healy 83, Mooney 81*) beat Bangladesh 9 for 103 (Fargana 36, Schutt 3-21) by 86 runs Australia flexed their muscles on the back of a record opening stand to set themselves up for a likely winner-takes-all final group match against New Zealand as Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney
7:36 AM GMT India 8 for 133 (Verma 46, Kerr 2-21, Mair 2-27) beat New Zealand 6 for 129 (Kerr 34*) by four runs India squeezed past an error-prone New Zealand into the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals and probable tournament favouritism, after Shafali Verma added to her tournament highlight reel and and then Harmanpreet Kaur
3:56 AM GMT To say Australia enjoyed an unbeaten and dominant summer in 2019-20 is not quite true. Yes, the Test team proper dominated Pakistan and New Zealand, hurtling to five successive victories through the prolific feats of David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne, stubborn support from Steven Smith and the relentless nature of the bowling
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9:12 PM GMT It’s already got to the stage where we can start to feel sorry for Quinton de Kock. He has inherited a team on a downward spiral even as his own career is on the up. Aside from his promotion to the leadership role, de Kock has been South Africa’s leading run-scorer in
7:09 PM GMT Multan Sultans 124 for 4 (Rossouw 49*, Shah 43*, Riaz 2-36) beat Peshawar Zalmi 123 (Ali 47, Tanvir 4-13, Ilyas 2-23) by six wickets How the game played out Shan Masood’s men gave the home fans a night to remember on PSL 2020’s debut evening in Multan as a rip-roaring bowling performance
12:34 AM GMT “I want you to get a feel of enjoyment rather than think of runs…” As Harmanpreet Kaur made her way into the nets for a second round of hits at a windswept Junctional Oval on Tuesday, India head coach WV Raman tried to put things into perspective for the captain of India.
Play 04:56 February 27: Australia vs Bangladesh at the Manuka Oval, Canberra Our XI: Alyssa Healy, Nigar Sultana, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning, Murshida Khatun, Rachael Haynes, Salma Khatun, Ellyse Perry, Panna Ghosh, Jess Jonassen, Megan Schutt Captain: Alyssa Healy Healy has had a horrid time in recent T20Is. She has 6 single-digit scores in her
8:39 PM GMT Aaron Finch has hailed the importance of David Warner and Steven Smith to Australia’s T20I side, after the pair starred in a dominant batting performance in the third and deciding game of the South Africa series in their first game at Newlands since the ball-tampering scandal of March 2018. Warner put on
Follow the latest England action: ecb.co.uk England recorded the highest ODI total in cricketing history, as they posted an outrageous 481-6 from their 50 overs. They had in fact set the previous record of 444-3 against Pakistan two years ago, passing that total by some distance. Bairstow and Hales struck 139 and 147 respectively, both
Player of the Match Wanindu Hasaranga at the Post Match Press | 1st ODI vs Windies
8:56 AM GMT Toss West Indies chose to bowl v Sri Lanka West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl first in the second ODI, in Hambantota, perhaps expecting their quicks to get something out of a surface that has at times been one of the fastest in the country. Only one change was
11:20 AM GMT Keshav Maharaj, South Africa’s premier Test spinner, has been included in the ODI squad to face Australia in a three-match series which starts on Saturday. Maharaj, who has four ODI caps to his name, is currently the joint-leading wicket-taker in the domestic one-day competition and will be pushing Tabraiz Shamsi for a
2:34 PM GMT It was a fitting finish. Bismah Maroof skipped down the pitch at her opposite number, Stafaine Taylor, and drove a boundary through off the side to seal a clinical chase from Pakistan. They have had to bide their time to join the tournament as the last team to play a match, but
9:58 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli‘s match aggregate of 21 runs in the Wellington Test against New Zealand, which went the way of the home team by 10 wickets, has allowed Steven Smith to reclaim the top spot in the Test rankings for batsmen, the Australian getting to No. 1 for the eighth time
Jaydev Unadkat picked up 6 for 51 to stifle Himachal Pradesh © Shailesh Bhatnagar The BCCI’s decision to introduce limited DRS in the semi-finals and final of the Ranji Trophy 2019-20 has been welcomed by the players, with Saurashtra captain Jaydev Unadkat agreeing that the technology would help in restricting the “howlers” in the crunch
12:25 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket has come a long way since Paul Farbrace, looking to make his way in the game, took a job picking celery as a way to make ends meet. Farbrace was obliged to work as a postman, customs officer and teacher, too. When he signed for Kent in 1986, he
Wesley Madhevere took three wickets and struck an unbeaten half-century © ICC/Getty Images Allrounder Chamu Chibhabha, who last played white-ball cricket for Zimbabwe in 2018, has been named captain of both the ODI and T20I sides for the ongoing Bangladesh tour. Sean Williams, the regular long-format captain who had missed the one-off Test due to
3:47 PM GMT South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first vs Australia South Africa will chase in the deciding T20 against Australia in a bid to win a first series since March 2019 without a specialist opener. Temba Bavuma has not recovered from the hamstring injury that has kept him out of
5:42 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has endured one of his quietest tours in recent memory, with scores of 2 and 19 in the first Test in Wellington following seven limited-overs innings with only one half-century. New Zealand are determined to ensure his lean run continues into the last match of India’s tour as
7:10 AM GMT Varun Shetty The Ranji Trophy will feature the Decision Review System (DRS), although in a “limited” capacity, for the first time in the upcoming semi-finals and finals rounds of the tournament, which begins from Saturday. It is understood that each team will have four reviews per innings, and the tools that will
7:19 AM GMT England 2 for 176 (Knight 108*, Sciver 59*) beat Thailand 7 for 78 (Chantam 32, Shrubsole 3-21) by 98 runs Heather Knight took England’s early World Cup campaign by the scruff of the neck after an early fright against Thailand with a maiden T20I hundred as her team secured an emphatic 98-run
© Getty Images Melbourne Stars coach David Hussey thinks allrounder Marcus Stoinis should play for Australia in all three formats, such is his value and versatility as a cricketer. Stoinis was Player of the Tournament in the recently concluded Big Bash League, setting a new tournament record with a tally of 705 runs, including a
11:45 AM GMT BCB president Nazmul Hassan has told Mushfiqur Rahim that he was contract-bound to travel to Pakistan for the one-off ODI and second Test in Karachi – the last leg of a three-part tour – in April, saying that players must “think about the country, and not about themselves”. “We are expecting that