3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India Green 100 for 3 (Gandhi 39, Chopra 26) drew with India Blue 177 (Tiwary 78, Raina 40, Rasool 5-70, Choudhary 3-18)Scorecard Parvez Rasool bowls for India A BCCI Rain washed out play for the third day in a row in Kanpur as the Duleep Trophy match between India Blue and India Green ended in a draw. The result meant that India Blue, who had earned…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Matt Walker, Kent’s head coach, says there are questions to answer after their match against Derbyshire at Chesterfield, rescheduled due to a pop concert at their headquarters in Derby, was abandoned without a ball being bowled in the entire game. Umpires Stephen Gale and Billy Taylor decided there could be no play on day four after heavy rain on Thursday only added to the…
5:41 AM ET George Dobell Michael Carberry has signed a two-year deal with Leicestershire. Carberry, the former England opener, joined the club from Hampshire on loan in August, with a brief return to the Hampshire side on T20 Finals Day. While he has not enjoyed an especially prolific start to life with Leicestershire – he has scored 42 runs in six innings with five single-figures scores and a high of…
Four-day Tests on the cards (4:16) With South Africa keen to play the Boxing Day Test against Zimbabwe as a four-day match, Gaurav Kalra, Ajit Agarkar and Shaun Tait discuss the viability of the proposal made by CSA (4:16) 4:48 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi The ICC is likely to grant Test status to the one-off four-day Boxing Day match between South Africa and Zimbabwe in December, but strictly as a…
Aiden Markram pulls © Getty Images Opening batsman Aiden Markram is set to make his international debut in the first Test against Bangladesh, which starts from September 28 in Potchefstroom. South Africa have also recalled seam-bowling allrounder Wayne Parnell to the 13-member squad for the first match, with Vernon Philander, Chris Morris and Dale Steyn all ruled out due to injury. Markram and seamer Andile Phehlukwayo are the only two…
Play 04:16 Four-day Tests on the cards The ICC is likely grant Test status to the one-off four-day match between South Africa and Zimbabwe in December, but strictly as a “trial” exercise. Cricket South Africa’s request to grant Test status to a four-day day-night match in Port Elizabeth rests with the ICC, which will take the final call during the Board meetings in Auckland in October. Four-day Tests are being…
2:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff With a few of their key fast bowlers nursing injuries in the run-up to the home summer, Australia have decided to rest Pat Cummins from the T20I series against India with an eye on his workload management in the build-up to the Ashes. The fast bowler is not carrying an injury but will return home after the fifth ODI in Nagpur on October 1 to…
12:08 AM ET West Indies coach Stuart Law has challenged his one-day squad to use the remainder of the series against England to prove they should be part of the team who will now need to contest the qualifying tournament next year to reach the 2019 World Cup. Defeat at Old Trafford in the opening match of the series condemned West Indies to the long route to a World Cup…
10:56 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Cricket Australia XI squad for this year’s domestic one-day tournament, the JLT Cup, has been named, with Queensland fast bowler Mark Steketee and Tasmania allrounder Beau Webster the most experienced members of the squad. Victoria allrounder Jonathan Merlo is the only player in the squad without a state contract. “There is some real talent within this group, and we believe the players in this…
‘We keep making silly errors under pressure’ – Smith (2:38) The Australia captain expresses his displeasure at another collective batting failure (2:38) Sep 20, 2017 “It’s not working.” That’s a line captains wish never to say, but Steven Smith had little choice when asked how he felt sitting in the dressing room watching Australia slide to defeat at Eden Gardens by 50 runs. A wrist-spinner picked up a hat-trick, the…