Tait: Sunrisers should play Stanlake again if he’s fit (3:03) James Faulkner, on the other hand, picks Chennai Super Kings as favourites because of the momentum they have (3:03) 3:00 AM ET Alagappan Muthu Big picture Sunrisers Hyderabad: lost to Kings XI Punjab by 15 runs, beat Kolkata Knight Riders by five wickets, beat Mumbai Indians by one wicket Chennai Super Kings: beat Rajasthan Royals by 64 runs, lost to…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Kent 169 (Kuhn 54) and 95 for 1 (Bell-Drummond 45*) beat Durham 91 (Henry 5-28) and 170 (Weighell 84, Henry 7-45) by nine wicketsScorecard Matt Henry claimed career-best match figures of 12 for 73 to guide Kent to a comfortable victory over Durham in their Specsavers County Championship Division Two clash at Emirates Riverside. The New Zealand seamer dominated with the ball in both…
Play 04:29 Tait: Bowling remains a worry for RCB Toss Royal Challengers Bangalore elect to bowl v Delhi DaredevilsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Virat Kohli, the Royal Challengers Bangalore captain, elected to bowl first with an eye on the conditions. It rained heavily on match eve, and while there wasn’t much rain in the hours leading up to the match, there is a forecast of intermittent showers. Manan Vohra, the…
10:18 AM ET Umar Farooq A day before departing for a daunting tour to the British Isles, Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed brushed aside criticism over the non-selection of Fawad Alam and emphasised that the 16-man squad selected for the tour is the “best of the best”. Pakistan have picked a fairly young Test squad, with five uncapped players: Fakhar Zaman, Faheem Ashraf, Imam ul Haq and Usman Salahuddin. While Alam’s…
9:20 AM ET Umar Farooq A day before departing for a daunting tour to the British Isles, Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed brushed aside criticism over the non-selection of Fawad Alam and emphasised that the 16-man squad selected for the tour is the “best of the best”. Pakistan have picked a fairly young Test squad, with five uncapped players: Fakhar Zaman, Faheem Ashraf, Imam ul Haq and Usman Salahuddin. While Alam’s…
Play 02:37 Tait: KKR are favourites at home Toss: Kings XI Punjab chose to bowl v Kolkata Knight RidersLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Kings XI Punjab captain R Ashwin, who had become the first captain to opt to bat in IPL 2018, against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday, reverted to the trend of the season on Saturday: bowl first. Kolkata Knight Riders captain Dinesh Karthik conceded that he had preferred to…
4:14 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former Australia spinner Shane Warne has criticised Cricket Australia, saying that “greed” is the main reason behind the board’s decision to expand the Big Bash League next summer. An extended BBL – with an increase in fixtures from 35 to 43 – is set to stretch into mid-February next year, with games played at four new venues. It has been reported that an expanded BBL,…
‘Dreaming of days like this over the last couple of years’ – Watson (2:16) Allrounder Shane Watson on his match-winning century, and what it means to him to be part of the CSK set-up (2:16) 10:44 PM ET Nagraj Gollapudi in Pune On Thursday Chris Gayle, in the same breath, both demanded and commanded respect after becoming the first centurion in IPL 2018. A day later, Shane Watson, another middle-aged…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 26 for 0 trail Gloucestershire 236 (de Lange 5-62) by 210 runsScorecard Marchant de Lange helped himself to his best first-class bowling figures in Glamorgan colours as the Welsh county took the upper hand on day one of their Specsavers’ County Championship game at the Brightside Ground. He took 5 for 62 as Gloucestershire, under a cloudless sky in Bristol, were bowled out…
Renshaw makes an immediate impact for Somerset (2:47) Catch up with all the latest from the County Championship, as Durham are dismissed for 91 against Kent with 20 wickets in a day (2:47) 3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards at Kia Oval Hampshire52 for 3 trail Surrey 211 (Dawson 4-30, Edwards 4-38) by 159 runsScorecard Posters in tube stations are sometimes weirdly prescient. “We know what we are, but know not…