Month: September 2017

Dobell: England still don’t know their best XI for Ashes tour (3:14) George Dobell joins Melinda Farrell to discuss the positives and negatives from England’s Test summer (3:14) 1:02 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Stuart Broad will have a scan on the heel problem which troubled him during the Lord’s Test before a decision is taken on whether he will play again this season, but James Anderson won’t take the field…

10:02 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India Red 323 (Panchal 105, Karthik 50, Vijay 3-46) and 307 for 2 declared (Panchal 133, Karthik 100*) beat India Green (Prashant Chopra 65, Gowtham 5-46, Karn 4-39) and 303 (Nair 120, Karn 6-94, Kaul 4-46) by 170 runs Karun Nair backs away and opens the face of his bat BCCI Karun Nair‘s century delayed the inevitable for India Green as they lost to India Red…

9:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff While Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal stands by his words against head coach Mickey Arthur, he has admitted that he might have been wrong in approaching the matter in the manner he did – a public outburst in a fiery press conference last month. In his response to the second show-cause notice issued by a three-man PCB committee, Akmal said he wasn’t aware his actions were…

8:41 AM ET Arun Venugopal Fresh from a testing tour of Bangladesh, Steven Smith, the Australia captain, doesn’t think his team will face a similar trial by spin during the upcoming limited-overs series in India. Smith took into account not only his batsmen’s ability but also the Indian pitches, which he believed, wouldn’t offer as much spin in limited-overs cricket. Australia will have an opportunity to acclimatise when they open…

8:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rishabh Pant has been picked in India A’s 14-man squad and Karun Nair named captain for the two four-day games against New Zealand A starting September 23 in Vijayawada. Pant replaces his former India Under-19 team-mate Ishan Kishan, who kept wicket in the two four-day games in South Africa, which India A levelled, last month. Priyank Panchal, the Gujarat opener and the previous Ranji Trophy…

5:51 AM ET Danyal Rasool Younis Khan was almost as famous during his playing career for his fractious run-ins with the PCB as for his batting ability, and it appears his grievances with the board haven’t ended with his retirement. In a lengthy interview with a local television channel, Younis rebuffed an offer from PCB chairman Najam Sethi to attend a farewell event to honour three recent big-name retirees: Misbah-ul-Haq,…

Play 03:28 The classic Anderson dismissals England seamer James Anderson has moved to No. 1 on the ICC’s Test rankings for bowlers. He displaced India spinner Ravindra Jadeja, following the Lord’s Test, in which he became the sixth player to pick up 500 Test wickets, and also returned a career-best 7 for 42. Anderson, 35, became the oldest bowler to claim the top spot since Muttiah Muralitharan in July 2009…

4:14 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Amir‘s wait to play an international match in Pakistan will be prolonged, as he is likely to miss part, if not all, of the T20I series against the World XI. Amir and his wife are currently in England expecting their first child, with the due date potentially any time over the next week – Pakistan play their three T20Is against a World XI on…

3:55 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowlers Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami return to India’s ODI squad for the first three of five-match series against Australia. India have chosen to be without spinners R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja – as they were when they whitewashed Sri Lanka last week. India squad Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik…