Month: September 2017

I’ve evolved as a white-ball player – Smith (2:37) Steven Smith reflects on his journey to his 100th ODI, Australia’s poor first ODI, and their chances going ahead in the series, ahead of the second ODI against India at the Eden Gardens (2:37) 3:00 AM ET India chose to bat v AustraliaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Virat Kohli, the India captain, has chosen to bat for the second time in…

K. Gowtham makes an appeal  2:49 AM ET Shashank Kishore K Gowtham, the Karnataka offspinner, has been dropped from the India A squad for the two four-day fixtures against New Zealand A for disciplinary reasons amounting to “gross insult to the system”. He has been replaced by Karn Sharma, the Vidarbha legspinner, in the 15-man squad for the two matches, which start from September 23 in Vijayawada. Gowtham, who bagged…

Wicketkeeper Peter Nevill will return to the Sydney Sixers for the 2017-18 Big Bash League after five seasons with the Melbourne Renegades. Nevill had been part of the Sixers side that won the inaugural BBL in 2011-12, and will return to the franchise on a multi-year deal. Nevill’s New South Wales team-mate, fast bowler Sean Abbott, has also committed to the Sixers. “It was a great opportunity to be back…

2:07 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Less than three months after she became New Zealand’s youngest representativeat the Women’s World Cup, 16-year-old legspinner Amelia Kerr has become the youngest female cricketer from the country to earn a full-time central contract. Suzie Bates, Erin Bermingham, Sophie Devine, Maddy Green, Holly Huddleston, Leigh Kasperek, Amelia Kerr, Katey Martin, Thamsyn Newton, Katie Perkins, Anna Peterson, Rachel Priest, Hannah Rowe, Amy Satterthwaite, Lea Tahuhu. Kerr…

4:54 PM ET George Dobell Ian Botham is “100% wrong” if he believes Paul Coughlin was lured to Nottinghamshire by promises of England selection, according to Andrew Strauss. Botham, the chairman of Durham, released a statement on Tuesday in which he suggested Durham’s players had been unsettled by talk of “greater England opportunities” if they moved to different counties. He went on to warn of a “potential for conflict of…

3:00 AM ET Lancashire 165 (Murtagh 4-49) and 46 for 1 need a further 175 runs to beat Middlesex 233 and 152 (Robson 58, Bailey 5-44) There is something oddly beautiful about a relegation scrap, even here, with only Middlesex in danger. Lancashire, safe, dismayed the race to the top was settled so soon, with a million excuses to have mentally checked out of the 2017 season, are playing their…

3:00 AM ET Tim Wigmore at Kia Oval Surrey 328 for 6 (Sangakkara 119*, Stoneman 51, Pope 50) lead Somerset 269 by 59 runs They call him, simply, “The King”. And, really you can see why. For Kumar Sangakkara, in his 40th year, is lording over English county cricket like it is his own personal fiefdom. Here, in his last ever first-class game at The Oval, and the penultimate one…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Essex 76 (Abbott 6-20) and 208 for 3 (Lawrence 78*, Bopara 52*) lead Hampshire 254 by 30 runs Kyle Abbott ripped through Essex to bowl the Specsavers County Champions out for 76, before Dan Lawrence and Ravi Bopara helped them back into the game, having been made to follow on, with patient half-centuries as the visitors led Hampshire by 30 runs at the end…