Month: November 2017

3:00 AM ET Toss Khulna Titans opt to bat v Comilla VictoriansLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Marlon Samuels and Dwayne Bravo are all smiles after the win AFP Khulna Titans captain Mahmudullah chose to bat first against Comilla Victorians at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. Khulna are unchanged from their last game while Comilla have made three changes. They have brought back Liton Das, Marlon Samuels and Dwayne Bravo, leaving out…

K. Gowtham makes an appeal  3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Karnataka set up a quarter-final date with Group C runners-up Mumbai after offspinner K Gowtham‘s 7 for 72 helped them beat Railways by 209 runs, giving the Group A table-toppers their fourth group-stage win at the Karnail Singh Stadium in Delhi. Karnataka will now face Group C runners-up Mumbai in the quarter-final. Gowtham ran through the Railways batting on the…

Nov 27, 2017 Toss Rangpur Riders elected to bowl v Sylhet SixersLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Upul Tharanga and Andre Fletcher have a chat Raton Gomes/BCB Rangpur Riders captain Mashrafe Mortaza chose to bowl first against Sylhet Sixers at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. It was an interesting decision, given Mashrafe’s side have lost all three times in their previous day games when they’ve bowled first. Rangpur dropped Shahriar Nafees, Thisara…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Pace-bowler Lukman Meriwala and left-arm spinner Swapnil Singh took four wickets each as Tamil Nadu crumbled to 130 all out and suffered a 102-run defeat against Baroda. The loss meant that Tamil Nadu finished their season without a single win, a possibility Baroda averted with this result. Tamil Nadu’s bowlers had done well on the third day to give their side an advantage, bowling out…

Nov 27, 2017 The sight of Ben Stokes wandering through Heathrow Airport on Monday evening, sporting his full cricket kit, fuelled extensive rumours on social media that he was heading to Australia to reinforce England’s Ashes squad in the wake of their defeat in the first Test at Brisbane. In response to wildfire speculation, the ECB said that Stokes was making a private trip to New Zealand to spend time…

Kerala picked up an innings-and-eight-run win against Haryana to join defending champions Gujarat as the two quarterfinalists from Group B. Kerala needed five wickets on the fourth day, having reduced to Haryana to 83 for 5 by the third evening. Haryana’s tail did not crumble, as Amit Mishra and Poonish Mehta resisted with knocks of 40 and 32 not out respectively, but seamer MD Nidheesh nipped out three wickets to…

2:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI has called its emergent Special General Meeting (SGM) on December 11, which means the meeting will take place after the ICC workshop that will be held on December 7-8, in Singapore to discuss the minutiae of the new Future Tours Programme (FTP) for 2019 to 2023. The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) had asked the BCCI to convene the meeting before the…

3:00 AM ET Toss Rangpur Riders elected to bowl v Sylhet SixersLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Upul Tharanga and Andre Fletcher have a chat Raton Gomes/BCB Rangpur Riders captain Mashrafe Mortaza chose to bowl first against Sylhet Sixers at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. It was an interesting decision, given Mashrafe’s side have lost all three times in their previous day games when they’ve bowled first. Rangpur dropped Shahriar Nafees, Thisara…