5:38 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Surrey head coach Michael Di Venuto has left the door ajar for David Warner and Steven Smith to play for the county during their ball-tampering bans if the ECB were to permit the pair to be available for the English domestic game. Di Venuto is a former Australia batting coach, having held the role from 2013 to 2016, and said it would be “mad” not…
5:01 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Test Match Special, the BBC’s flagship cricket commentary, will be off-air this winter for the first time in 13 years, after TalkSPORT secured the free-to-air broadcasting rights for England’s tours of Sri Lanka and West Indies. The commercial station’s coverage will begin on October 10, for the first day-night ODI between England and Sri Lanka in Dambulla, and extend through to the end of the…
4:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Australia (CA) will begin the process of appointing a new head coach this Friday, even as one report suggested that Justin Langer is all but confirmed as Darren Lehmann’s replacement. CA said in a statement that “no appointment has been made, and nor will any candidate be put to the board for ratification on Friday. We expect to have a clearer understanding of the…
© BCCI It might not have had much of a bearing on the result of the match, but the third umpire might have looked at the wrong replay when the on-field officials turned to him to check on a no-ball during the match between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Jasprit Bumrah is no stranger to bowling no-balls – his costliest one coming in last year’s Champions Trophy final –…
Frustrated with RCB bowling – Vettori (1:47) Head coach Daniel Vettori says he’s quite happy with how the Royal Challengers Bangalore batsmen have been performing (1:47) 11:58 PM ET Nagraj Gollapudi On Sunday, Royal Challengers Bangalore leaked the joint second-highest number of runs (88) in the final five overs in IPL history against Rajasthan Royals, allowing them to post 217. It was the third-highest total for any team against RCB…
© PTI The Irani Cup may not be part of the 2018-19 Indian domestic calendar, and the Ranji Trophy could instead feature an additional knockout round. These changes will come into effect if the Supreme-Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) approves a list of proposals drafted by the BCCI’s technical committee during a meeting on Monday. The technical committee has also approved the inclusion of Bihar as the 29th team in…
11:38 AM ET Danyal Rasool There are some enduring mysteries in international cricket, those that produce no satisfactory answer. Why the Lord’s ground slopes precipitously from north to south, whether WG Grace was a deity or a dirtbag, and how cricket can claim to be a global sport when next year’s World Cup will have fewer participants than its kabaddi counterpart. One to add to that catalogue of conundrums is…
3:00 AM ET Royal Challengers Bangalore chose to bowl v Mumbai IndiansLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Suryakumar Yadav lofts one over the covers BCCI Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma lost his fourth toss in four games this season as Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli elected to bowl on a ground he said scores were tough to defend. Kohli also said the dampness of the pitch and the cloud cover influenced…
3:00 AM ET Rajasthan Royals: defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 19 runs, defeated Delhi Daredevils by 10 runs via D/L method, lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad by nine wickets Kolkata Knight Riders: defeated Delhi Daredevils by 71 runs, lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad by five wickets, lost to Chennai Super Kings by five wickets, defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by four wickets. Big picture So the jinx has been broken. Rajasthan Royals became…
9:04 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff This season, Kolkata Knight Riders’ opening combination has been fluid. While Sunil Narine opened their batting in three of their first four games, the team opted for Robin Uthappa to open alongside Chris Lynn against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The flexibility, Lynn feels, allows Knight Riders’ top three the best chance to combat whatever type of bowling the opposition may throw at them. Narine has scored his…