AB’s hunger pangs: AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis joke around during the tour game 1:48 PM ET Faf du Plessis will captain South Africa in all formats after being confirmed as AB de Villiers‘ successor in ODIs. Du Plessis has been in charge of the T20 team since February 2013 and the Test squad since August last year. Du Plessis is likely to take the fifty-over unit to…
Con de Lange gets swarmed after dismissing Malcolm Waller for his maiden ODI five-for 12:54 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Scotland will host Pakistan for a two-match T20I series in Edinburgh next year. It will mark the first face-off between the two sides in the 20-over format since they met in the group stage of the 2007 World T20 in South Africa, where Shahid Afridi’s all-round performance eased Pakistan to a…
11:17 AM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna Former Hyderabad wicketkeeper Ibrahim Khaleel will take over as USA captain from Steven Taylor for the Auty Cup beginning on Tuesday in Toronto. Khaleel, 34, made…
11:06 AM ET Mohammad Isam By requesting for a six-month break from Tests, Shakib Al Hasan has brought a first-world problem to Bangladesh cricket. And by partially accepting his offer, the BCB has officially started managing player fatigue. A previous generation of cricketers could not have even imagined voluntarily giving up international matches to take a break. Bangladesh hardly played enough matches and even when they got Test status in…
10:31 AM ET Dale Steyn is expected to put himself in contention for selection in South Africa’s Test side for the series against Bangladesh, if he plays in the opening round of first-class fixtures starting next Tuesday. Steyn, who is five wickets away from becoming South Africa’s leading wicket-taker in Tests, has been out of action since breaking a bone in his shoulder last November in Australia. His comeback has…
9:51 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shakib Al Hasan has been playing international cricket since August 2006 and has missed only seven of Bangladesh’s 58 Tests since his debut. One of the complaints Bangladesh fans often have is that their side plays far fewer Tests than other teams, which makes Shakib’s decision to take a break from the format surprising. But it is his workload across formats, the highest among Bangladesh…
9:21 AM ET Danyal Rasool in Lahore World XI captain Faf du Plessis chose to see the silver lining amid the dark cloud of uncertainty that hovers over international cricket in Pakistan, saying the presidential-style security afforded to the touring players made them feel like they “were in a movie”. Pakistan: Sarfraz Ahmed (capt & wk), Fakhar Zaman, Ahmed Shehzad, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Umar Amin, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan,…
9:02 AM ET Danyal Rasool in Lahore World XI captain Faf du Plessis chose to see the silver lining amid the dark cloud of uncertainty that hovers over international cricket in Pakistan, saying the presidential-style security afforded to the touring players made them feel like they “were in a movie”. Pakistan: Sarfraz Ahmed (capt & wk), Fakhar Zaman, Ahmed Shehzad, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Umar Amin, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan,…
Tendulkar’s son bowls at England in the nets (1:15) Arjun Tendulkar bowl some left-arm seam at England in the nets at Lord’s. (1:15) 8:31 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Arjun Tendulkar, son of Sachin Tendulkar, has been selected for the Mumbai Under-19 one-day side for the JY Lele invitational tournament to be played in Baroda from September 16 to 23. Arjun, who has also represented Mumbai in Under-16 cricket in 2015-16,…
Faulkner eager to resume Australia duties (1:31) After nearly seven months out of international cricket, James Faulkner was pleased to be back in the team and is ready to play the ODIs in India (1:31) 8:22 AM ET It was in India in 2013 that James Faulkner truly announced himself as an international allrounder of substance. Most specifically, his Mohali heist gave rise to the nom de plume “the Finisher”;…