Winning moment: Australia celebrate as Pat Cummins takes the Ashes-clinching wicket 11:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The legend of the Ashes began with a mock obituary following Australia’s victory at The Oval in 1882 – but now, 135 years later, the Aussie media are asking whether the rivalry has expired for good, as England brace themselves for what could yet be their third whitewash in four Test tours Down Under….
11:27 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi The 2018 IPL auction will be held on January 27 and 28, in Bangalore. That means the mega auction will coincide with the final two days of India’s third Test on the tour of South Africa; Virat Kohli’s team is scheduled to play the final Test of the South Africa tour from January 24-28 in Johannesburg. ESPNcricinfo understands that the IPL has asked all eight…
© PTI Delhi coach KP Bhaskar has said his players were fired up ahead of their Ranji Trophy semi-final as a result of comments from Manoj Tiwary, the Bengal captain. On the eve of the match, Tiwary had brought up the fractious 2015 meeting between the two sides, in which Bengal had taken the first-innings lead. It was also the match that saw Tiwary and Gautam Gambhir get into a…
10:15 AM ET Osman Samiuddin The PCB made considerable gains in its scheduling for a new Future Tours Programme (FTP) during a workshop held in Singapore earlier this month. Last week ESPNcricinfo reported on a version of the FTP that Full Members took into the workshop, held on December 7 and 8. By the end of the meeting members produced an updated FTP in which there were minor adjustments to…
9:49 AM ET Osman Samiuddin The PCB made considerable gains in its scheduling for a new Future Tours Programme (FTP) during a workshop held in Singapore earlier this month. Last week ESPNcricinfo reported on a version of the FTP that Full Members took into the workshop, held on December 7 and 8. By the end of the meeting members produced an updated FTP in which there were minor adjustments to…
3:00 AM ET Arun Venugopal in Pune Delhi 398 (Gambhir 127, Chandela 113, Himmat 60, Shami 6-122) beat Bengal 286 (Sudip 83, Saini 3-55) and 86 (Saini 4-35, Khejroliya 4-40) by an innings and 26 runs Gautam Gambhir plays through the off side AFP On a day when fast bowlers on both the sides produced game-altering spells, it was Bengal’s freefall with the bat that had them plummet to a defeat…
9:18 AM ET One of cricket’s most over-used adages is that shorter formats reduce the quality gap between teams, and though it may not always be true, Zimbabwe are hoping it will be apply to them when they take on South Africa in the four-day Test starting on Boxing Day. Though elite cricketers, including two of South Africa’s own, Faf du Plessis and Dean Elgar, have largely turned their noses…
Ben Duckett (centre) watches from the bench during England Lions T20 match against Perth Scorchers 9:19 AM ET Ben Duckett has been omitted from the England Lions tour of the West Indies next year as the ECB get tough on the off-field antics that has left them defending the professionalism of the Ashes squad. Duckett was suspended from all remaining fixtures on England Lions’ tour of Australia and given a…
Vidarbha 185 and 195 for 4 (Satish 71*, Wankhade 49, Aravind 2-41) lead Karnataka 301 (Nair 153, Gautam 73, Gurbani 5-94, Umesh 4-73) by 79 runs Ganesh Satish sends one rocketing through the off side © PTI For the third time in three days, Vidarbha showed flashes of fight, but Karnataka maintained their dominance over the Ranji Trophy semi-final at Eden Gardens. Vidarbha wrapped up Karnataka’s first innings 35 minutes…
8:13 AM ET Big Picture India haven’t lost a bilateral series in any format in 2017, but that’s only if you discount the one-off T20I against West Indies in Kingston, where an Evin Lewis century blew them away. A 6-4 T20 record this year would suggest this Indian side is at its most vulnerable in the shortest format. Sri Lanka, having let slip a few chances to push India harder…