Match facts Kolkata Knight Riders v Gujarat LionsKolkata, April 21, 2017 Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT) Gujarat Lions bowlers will have to find a strategy to keep the Knight Riders top order in check © BCCI Head to head This season: Kolkata Knight Riders thumped Gujarat Lions with 10 wickets and 31 balls to spare, chasing a target of 184. Overall: Lions still lead 2-1 In the news This…
Mumbai Indians 199 for 2 (Buttler 77, Rana 62*, Parthiv 37) beat Kings XI Punjab 198 for 4 (Amla 104*, Maxwell 40) by eight wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Jos Buttler kicked Mumbai Indians’ chase into gear with a spectacular display of clean hitting © BCCI In the best batting conditions of the IPL, Mumbai Indians coasted to their highest successful IPL chase, razing their target of 199 with 27 balls…
Play 01:35 ‘I’ve always been able to bat’ – Bresnan Tim Bresnan has more reasons than most of his team-mates to be grateful for the startling emergence of Ben Coad in Yorkshire’s fast-bowling ranks – because Coad’s success has allowed him to concentrate on his burgeoning role as one of the club’s senior batsmen. Coad, 23, had played just one County Championship fixture prior to the start of the 2017…
Reece Topley has barely played since being part of England’s 2016 World T20 squad © Getty Images Reece Topley has admitted there have been “some dark days” in his long journey back to fitness and described the prospect of returning to action on Friday in Hampshire’s match against Yorkshire as like a second debut. Topley, the left-arm swing bowler, has not bowled in a first-class match since July 2015 and…
Junaid Siddique’s 112-ball 114 was not enough for Brothers Union © ESPNcricinfo Ltd In the first close contest of this season’s Dhaka Premier League, Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club registered a five-run win over Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club at the BKSP-4 Ground in Savar. Needing 15 runs off the last over in a truncated game of 38 overs a side, Doleshwar’s Mohammad Sharifullah managed to hit a solitary boundary as Abdur…
Harpreet Singh topped the run charts in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament © ESPNcricinfo Ltd Madhya Pradesh batsman Harpreet Singh has been named by Royal Challengers Bangalore as replacement for the injured Sarfaraz Khan. This marks a remarkable turnaround for Harpreet after erroneous reports of his being detained by the police for a driving incident emerged on the day of the IPL auction, in…
Toss Mumbai Indians chose to bowl v Kings XI PunjabLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 03:16 Hogg: Kings XI need Shaun Marsh Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma chose to bowl for the fourth consecutive game, against Kings XI Punjab in Indore. Mumbai have not lost a game while chasing this season. Rohit, who named an unchanged team, said he wanted to chase with the overall trend this season. In 21…
Toss: Mumbai Indians chose to bowl v Kings XI PunjabLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Shaun Marsh was brought in for his first game of the season © BCCI Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma chose to bowl for the fourth consecutive game, against Kings XI Punjab in Indore. Mumbai have not lost a game while chasing this season. Rohit, who named an unchanged team at the toss, said he wanted to…
Mark Nicholas, the cricket broadcaster, ESPNcricinfo contributor and former Hampshire captain, has won the Cricket Society and MCC cricket book of the year award for 2017. Nicholas was named the winner in the Long Room at Lord’s on Wednesday evening for his book A Beautiful Game, My Love Affair with Cricket as he became the latest winner of an award that has been running for 48 years. Alan Gardner wrote…
Headingley will get a new stand on the rugby side of the ground, opposite the pavilion Clint Hughes / © PA Photos Headingley’s future as an international venue has been secured after Leeds City Council formally approved an emergency deal to ensure a major £35m refit could go ahead. Mounting dismay that the ground’s status was under threat has hurried the council into brokering an agreement with a private financial…