Month: December 2017

3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka 114 for 3 (Tharanga 49) beat India 112 (Dhoni 65, Lakmal 4-13) by seven wickets play 2:55 Ajit Agarkar and Gaurav Kalra review India’s innings in Dharamsala Lesser-skilled teams’ best chances of competing are in conditions that skew the balance towards the bowlers – spin or seam. In 26 ODIs in 2017, most of which were played on flat surfaces, Sri Lanka managed to win…

Play 00:35 Marsh feels for a struggling Handscomb Australia’s coach Darren Lehmann has hinted strongly at Mitchell Marsh‘s likely inclusion for the final Ashes Test to be played at the WACA Ground, leaving Peter Handscomb very much in the gun as far as his immediate international future is concerned. Handscomb, who has struggled for runs and technical consistency against the plans and accuracy of England’s James Anderson in particular, may…

5:11 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff 1:57 The last-wicket pair added 61 off just 43 balls in a stand laced with unorthodoxy New Zealand fast bowler Trent Boult is of the opinion that the introduction of four-day Test cricket is not necessary to make the format more appealing. Instead, Boult asked for better pitches that would create a more even contest between bat and ball and make the games more attractive…

3:00 AM ET India 112 (Dhoni 65, Lakmal 4-13) v Sri Lanka Suranga Lakmal sent back captain Rohit Sharma for two runs BCCI Lesser-skilled teams’ best chances of competing are in conditions that skew the balance towards the bowlers – spin or seam. In 26 ODIs in 2017, most of which were played on flat surfaces, Sri Lanka managed to win just four. But just like in Kolkata in the first…

3:00 AM ET Toss: Sri Lanka chose to bowl v India Shreyas Iyer gets off his feet to slap through the off side BCCI Both teams got their desired result at the toss as Sri Lanka’s new ODI captain Thisara Perera chose to bowl first against India in Dharamsala. India’s stand-in captain Rohit Sharma said he would have batted with a “good pitch and the sun shining nice and bright.” Shreyas…

3:00 AM ET Lunch West Indies 24 for 1 trail New Zealand 373 (Raval 84, de Grandhomme 58, Gabriel 4-119, Roach 3-58) by 349 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Trent Boult slaps a short ball over cover Getty Images In a 49-ball burst of tail-end adventure, Trent Boult and Tim Southee walloped 61 together for the final wicket, propelling New Zealand to 373, before Southee claimed the first wicket in West…

1:07 PM ET Melinda Farrell in Perth Kevin Pietersen has described the batting of both England and Australia as “no good”, and questioned Alastair Cook‘s desire ahead of the third Ashes Test at the WACA. Pietersen admitted to feeling frustrated at England’s inability to capitalise on periods of competitive play during the first two Tests and expressed a belief that they could be subjected to another 5-0 series defeat, despite…

12:21 PM ET Big picture Rangpur Riders and Comilla Victorians will battle it out in the second qualifier to determine who will face Dhaka Dynamites in the final of this BPL season. Both Rangpur and Comilla have plenty of international stars who have lit up the league. Rangpur, however, have had a better build-up to this clash, after having crushed an impressive Khulna side in the Eliminator. Chris Gayle unleashed…

11:58 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Chandika Hathurusingha‘s disenchantment with the Bangladesh team led to his resignation midway through the South Africa tour in October. BCB president Nazmul Hassan made this statement after meeting the now former Bangladesh head coach in Dhaka, where he arrived on Saturday to tie up loose ends in his workplace of three years. Hathurusingha, Hassan said, was particularly frustrated with the board allowing Shakib Al Hasan…