Play 04:14 Who is Shubman Gill? Shubman Gill, the 18-year old batsman from Punjab, has been rewarded for his good returns in Youth ODIs with a place in the India A squad for the five-match, one-day series against New Zealand A that starts from October 6. The captaincy of the team has been split, with Shreyas Iyer to lead in the first three games before Rishabh Pant takes over for…
Play 04:14 Who is Shubman Gill? Shubman Gill, the 18-year old right-handed batsman from Punjab, has been rewarded for his good returns in Youth ODIs with a place in the India A squad for the five-match one-day series against New Zealand A that starts from October 6. The captaincy of the team has been split, with Shreyas Iyer set to lead in the first three games before Rishabh Pant takes…
2:45 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India have brought back veteran pace bowler Ashish Nehra for the three T20s against Australia which start on October 7. Another familiar face returning to the squad is wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik. Shikhar Dhawan, who had been granted leave to skip the preceding ODIs against Australia to tend to his ill wife, returns for the T20s. Nehra last played an international in February, in the shortest…
Steven Smith is worried about the frequent batting collapses © BCCI Steven Smith, the Australia captain, believes players on this tour are likely to face competition from those playing the domestic one-day tournament back home. This is in sharp contrast to his views ahead of the second ODI in Kolkata, where he said the current squad represented the country’s best one-day talent. Having lost the series 4-1 and serious defects…
Axar Patel bounced back from an ordinary performance in Bengaluru © BCCI Until the last day of the five-match ODI series, India were about to win it without a single centurion. Rohit Sharma’s excellent handling of a slow, grippy pitch to score 125 at a strike-rate of 114.87 – when everyone that faced at least 20 balls had to settle for 88 runs per 100 balls or less – deserves…
Theunis de Bruyn could only manage a duck back in the Knights side © Getty Images Results Summary A second successive round of draws in all three matches means the tournament has yet to come to life with the defending champions Knights leading the points table, 0.1 point ahead of Dolphins. The teams drew in a rained-affected affair in Durban. With the first day lost entirely, chances of a result…
‘My performances with the bat haven’t been good enough’ – Wade (1:24) Matthew Wade is under no illusions about the kind of pressure he is in to retain his place as Australia’s wicketkeeper-batsman in the long term (1:24) 3:00 AM ET India 243 for 3 (Rohit 125, Rahane 61) beat Australia 242 for 9 (Warner 53, Stoinis 46, Axar 3-38) by 7 wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details India took back their…
10:38 AM ET Morne Morkel‘s participation in the remainder of the first Test against Bangladesh is in doubt after he sustained a side strain on the fourth afternoon. Morkel will be taken for scans on Monday. This could also raise question marks over his availability for the second Test starting October 6. Morkel, who took two wickets in a searing opening burst, left the field in his sixth over of…
3:00 AM ET Tea Bangladesh 320 and 49 for 3 (Mushfiqur 16*, Morkel 2-19) need another 375 runs to beat South Africa 496 for 3 dec and 247 for 6 dec (Du Plessis 81, Bavuma 71, Mominul 3-27, Mustafizur 2-30)Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details Morne Morkel is elated after pinning Mominul Haque lbw AFP Morne Morkel produced a searing opening burst to carve up Bangladesh’s top order and severely dent their…
10:07 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya The bans handed out by SLC to the 22 players implicated in the Tier B match-manipulation case will be lifted, pending the result of an appeal process. Players of Panadura Sports Club and Kalutara Physical Culture Club were last month banned for one year from all cricketing activities for their supposed role in manipulating the result of a Tier B first-class match in January –…