5:34 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN When BCB president Nazmul Hassan identified Khaled Mahmud as the frontrunner to be the interim head coach of Bangladesh, various potential conflicts came starkly into view. Mahmud is currently a BCB director and if he is ultimately given the temporary job, he will be the first director-cum-coach in world cricket. Even for someone who was an allrounder during his playing career, this dual role will…
5:27 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN When BCB president Nazmul Hassan identified Khaled Mahmud as the frontrunner to be the interim head coach of Bangladesh, various potential conflicts came starkly into view. Mahmud is currently a BCB director and if he is ultimately given the temporary job, he will be the first director-cum-coach in world cricket. Even for someone who was an allrounder during his playing career, this dual role will…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New South Wales 243 (O’Keefe 50*, Holland 5-67) and 8 for 256 (Patterson 61, Abbott 47) drew with Victoria 9 for 562 dec (Maxwell 278, Finch 76, O’Keefe 3-128) and 3 for 148 dec (Harris 62*, Copeland 2-52) Ed Cowan drives on his way to another hundred Getty Images A charge from Ed Cowan at No. 9 and a middle-order resistance from Kurtis Patterson and Sean…
Play 01:01 Bancroft incident is blown out of proportion – Bairstow Whatever Cameron Bancroft envisaged when he imagined the first press conference of his career as a Test cricketer, it surely wasn’t this. His excellent debut, in which he scored 82 not out to help Australia to a 10-wicket victory, was all but forgotten as he was besieged by questions about the incident involving Jonny Bairstow in Perth a month…
Nov 26, 2017 ESPNcricinfo staff A century from opener Brad Wilson and fifties from Shawn Hicks and Anaru Kitchen were in vain as Otago suffered a 25-run defeat against Northern Districts in their pursuit of 344. The key performer for Northern Districts, in their first win of the tournament this season, was legspinner Ish Sodhi, who finished with nine wickets in the match, including a five-for in the second innings….
Nov 26, 2017 India 610 for 6 dec. (Kohli 213, Pujara 143, Vijay 128, Rohit 102*) beat Sri Lanka 205 (Chandimal 57, Karunaratne 51, Ashwin 4-67, Ishant 3-37, Jadeja 3-56) and 166 (Chandimal 61, Ashwin 4-63) by an innings and 239 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details R Ashwin sniped out the Sri Lanka tail BCCI Virat Kohli will go to South Africa without having lost a Test series as a captain after…
3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 205 and 145 for 8 (Chandimal 53*, Lakmal 19*, Ashwin 3-50) trail India 610 for 6 dec. by 260 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Murali Vijay is mobbed by his team-mates after he held on to Dimuth Karunaratne’s catch at short-leg BCCI It is not easy to keep turning up after you have wasted all the good fortune in one Test and then lost the…
Play 02:00 England players have made ‘dumb’ decisions – Bayliss The England team “have to be smarter” about how they go about life off the field, the coach Trevor Bayliss had said. Bayliss was clearly angry and disappointed after allegations of an altercation involving Jonny Bairstow emerged at the end of the fourth day of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane. While the incident itself turned out to be more…
Toss Chittagong Vikings chose to bat v Dhaka Dynamites Chittagong Vikings captain Luke Ronchi chose to bat against Dhaka Dynamites at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. Dhaka made four changes to their line-up: they dropped Kieron Pollard, Mohammad Amir, Mehedi Maruf and Nadif Chowdhury, and replaced them with Mohammad Shahid, Mohammad Saddam, Cameron Delport and Joe Denly. Chittagong made one change: bringing in the newly signed Rayad Emrit and dropping…
3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 205 and 145 for 8 (Chandimal 53*, Lakmal 19*, Ashwin 3-50) trail India 610 for 6 dec. by 260 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Murali Vijay is mobbed by his team-mates after he held on to Dimuth Karunaratne’s catch at short-leg BCCI It is not easy to keep turning up after you have wasted all the good fortune in one Test and then lost the…