4:12 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Aaron Finch is game to captain Australia once again, should the selectors come calling. With the suspensions of David Warner and Steven Smith, the team not only has to find new personnel but also appoint new leaders. Tim Paine – barely into a comeback into international cricket – became Australia’s 46th Test captain last month and now with an tour of England in June, focus…
3:18 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Batsmen Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq and Saad Ali received maiden call-ups in a 16-man Test squad for Pakistan’s tour to Ireland and England named by chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq on Sunday, with no place – as expected – for fast bowler Wahab Riaz. Squad: Sarfraz Ahmed (capt &wk), Azhar Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Sami Aslam, Haris Sohail, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Saad Ali, Asad Shafiq, Usman Salahuddin, Shadab Khan,…
Sunrisers Hyderabad 139 for 5 (Williamson 50, Shakib 27, Narine 2-17) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 138 for 8 (Lynn 49, Bhuvneshwar 3-26, Shakib 2-21, Stanlake 2-21) by five wickets Shakib Al Hasan loops one up © BCCI Sunrisers Hyderabad panicked and flailed in a chase again, but nowhere near as much as they had against Mumbai Indians on Thursday. Their captain Kane Williamson’s half-century, and his 59-run stand with Shakib…
3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards Nottinghamshire 127 for 6 (Bailey 3-17) trail Lancashire 158 (Vilas 49, Ball 5-43) by 31 runsScorecard Jake Ball runs in to bowl Getty Images “I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, / Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring.” Unlike Percy Shelley, the cricketers had no need of a reverie to transform the seasons on the second day of this game; mere slumber had…
3:00 AM ET George Dobell Warwickshire 284 for 9 (Bell 70, Ambrose 76*, Wiese 4-50) v SussexScorecard Ian Bell steers through the covers Getty Images It is centuries, not 70s, that grab the attention of selectors. But on a day when only one other man could reach 30, Ian Bell provided a reminder of his considerable qualities with an innings of charm and substance to help his side to the brink…
Toss Sunrisers Hyderabad chose to bowl v Kolkata Knight RidersScorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 03:08 Dasgupta: Gill better than most Indian batsmen in KKR squad Kane Williamson won the toss in his first away game as Sunrisers Hyderabad captain and elected to bowl against Kolkata Knight Riders. Sunrisers are on top of the table now with two wins from two, and if the pattern of win-toss-win-match holds, they could establish…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 110 for 8 (Roderick 51, Stevens 3-19) lead Kent 64 (Taylor 4-20, Miles 3-11) by 46 runsScorecard Matt Taylor in action for Gloucestershire Getty Images Kent were dismissed inside 91 minutes for 64 and only a Gareth Roderick half-century saved Gloucestershire from similar ignominy as 18 wickets fell on day two of this rain-delayed Specsavers County Championship clash in Canterbury. When bad light stop…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Two matches, two last-gasp wins and two injuries. Having squeezed out maximum points so far, Chennai Super Kings now run into a revamped Kings XI Punjab side captained by an old friend in R Ashwin. Kings XI have had a seesawing start to the season: they mowed down Delhi Daredevils but came up short against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday. They have a little less…
12:11 PM ET Umar Farooq Two weeks after his Man-of-the-Match performance in the final of the World Cup Qualifier, Afghanistan’s Mohammad Shahzad has been asked by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) to reside permanently in Afghanistan or risk having his contract terminated. Shahzad currently resides in Peshawar, Pakistan. He has also been fined AFN 300,000 (USD 4000 approx) for participating in a local tournament in Peshawar without permission. The ACB…
3:00 AM ET Delhi Daredevils 195 for 3 (Roy 91*, Pant 47, Krunal Pandya 2-21) beat Mumbai Indians 194 for 7 (Suryakumar Yadav 53, Lewis 48, Christian 2-35) by seven wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details On paper, this was a clash between one of the tournament’s powerhouses and an unfancied team. In reality, it was a scrap between two teams looking to get a move on, having suffered defeat in each…