12:51 PM ET Nagraj Gollapudi Ireland and Afghanistan’s desire to play consistent Test cricket is on the verge of fulfillment as both countries are scheduled to play a combined total of 29 Tests in the next cycle of the Future Tours Programme (2019-23). Ireland will play 16 Tests while Afghanistan are scheduled to play 13, in a calendar which is due to get a final approval at the ICC annual…
‘T10 cricket is a viable Olympic option’ – Morgan (1:22) Eoin Morgan discussed the possibility of 10-over cricket being selected as an Olympic sport ahead of the first ever T10 tournament in Dubai. (1:22) 12:29 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hales, the England opening batsman who was present at the arrest of Ben Stokes in Bristol in September, will mark his return to action this week when the inaugural Ten10…
3:00 AM ET Rangpur Riders 206 for 1 (Gayle 146*, McCullum 51*) beat Dhaka Dynamites 149 for 9 (Jahurul 50, Nazmul 2-8) by 57 runs Chris Gayle carts one down the ground Raton Gomes Chris Gayle hoisted Rangpur Riders to their maiden BPL title, his unbeaten 146 leading them to a 57-run win in the final against Dhaka Dynamites. Dhaka, the defending champions and favourites ahead of the final, were brought…
Bal: Unofficial IPL window great news for players (3:22) Sambit Bal and Raunak Kapoor discuss the new Future Tours Programme, which has effectively created a window for the IPL (3:22) 8:55 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi The Indian Premier League has been all but formally recognised in the new Future Tours Programme as a global event. In the next FTP cycle (2019-23), the IPL is the only domestic Twenty20 league during…
Bal: Unofficial IPL window great news for players (3:22) Sambit Bal and Raunak Kapoor discuss the new Future Tours Programme, which has effectively created a window for the IPL (3:22) 8:31 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi The Indian Premier League has been all but formally recognised in the new Future Tours Programme as a global event. In the next FTP cycle (2019-23), the IPL is the only domestic Twenty20 league during…
© Francois Nel/Getty Images WAPDA sitting pretty Salman Butt‘s Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) are in prime position to reach the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, becoming the only side in the competition to win both Super Eight games, and opening up a ten-point lead in their group. Batting first against United Bank Limited (UBL), they posted 243 and conceded a 32-run lead to UBL, for whom Mohammad Nawaz, who has…
James Anderson twice had lbw decisions overturned © Getty Images James Anderson has addressed the latest incident to have unsettled England’s Ashes tour by describing Ben Duckett pouring a drink over him in a bar as “a non-event”, although he admitted that the players need to avoid further controversies while in Australia. Writing in his Telegraph column, Anderson said the players had moved on from “what was a pretty silly…
3:00 AM ET Dhaka Dynamites chose to bowl v Rangpur Riders Chris Gayle celebrates yet another T20 hundred Raton Gomes Dhaka Dynamites captain Shakib Al Hasan decided to bowl against Rangpur Riders in the BPL final in Mirpur. Shakib did what an overwhelming majority of captains – 19 out of 22 – have done in night games this season. Rangpur were unchanged while Dhaka made one change: dropping Mohammad Saddam in…
6:04 AM ET Big picture Atmospheric conditions in north India have haunted Sri Lanka right through their tour of India. If it was the smog in Delhi, it was rain in Dharamsala. On Monday, they spent four hours at the airport with their chartered flight unable to take off. They returned to their hotels and only flew to Mohali on Tuesday, the eve of the third ODI. North India, however,…
Play 02:47 The world’s changed for the England cricket team – Cook The world has changed and the England cricket team has to realise it, according to former captain Alastair Cook. Cook, on the verge of becoming the first England player to win 150 Test caps, has warned his team-mates they “can’t afford any more mistakes” as they seek to rebuild their connection with the general public in the aftermath…