Month: April 2018

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 136 for 4 vs NorthantsScorecard Max Holden dives to regain his ground Getty Images Middlesex’s batsmen fought back from a sticky start against Northamptonshire to reach 136 for 4 on a shortened opening day of the Specsavers County Championship at Lord’s. Inserted on a greenish wicket, the home side slumped to 63 for 4 before lunch, with Northants seamers Ben Sanderson and Brett Hutton…

3:00 AM ET Big Picture Two games each, two losses each. It doesn’t mean too much given the length of an IPL season. Mumbai Indians have come back from worse starts and gone on to win titles, and both they and Delhi Daredevils can tell themselves their results so far do not fully reflect how they have played. Mumbai have lost two excruciatingly tight games, one of which they had…

3:00 AM ET Toss Royal Challengers Bangalore chose to bowl v Kings XI PunjabLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Andrew Tye practices before the first ball BCCI In their first home game of the season, Virat Kohli, the Royal Challengers Bangalore captain, chose to bowl against R Ashwin’s Kings XI Punjab. The RCB captain felt the Chinnaswamy surface “was back to being normal”, suggesting that he expects the game to be high…

10:15 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara will be part of the Sky Sports coverage of England’s home summer this year – a season which features full tours from Pakistan and India, as well as limited-overs fixtures visit from Australia. Sangakkara effectively replaces Shane Warne in the commentary box. Kumar Sangakkara, Ricky Ponting, Harbhajan Singh, Wasim Akram, David Lloyd, Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, Ian Botham, David…

3:00 AM ET Big Picture Forty-eight hours. After barely surviving a rollercoaster against the defending champions Mumbai Indians, that is the time Sunrisers Hyderabad have to recuperate and be back in full swing. It’s another reminder of how punishing the IPL can be, and the challenges teams face in staying fresh through two whole months in the peak of the Indian summer. Moreover, Sunrisers will have to switch cities, as…

7:27 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Tushar Imran struck twin hundreds in South Zone‘s drawn BCL match against East Zone in Sylhet. He became the second batsman this season after Junaid Siddique and the 12th overall to achieve the feat in Bangladesh domestic first-class cricket – Tushar is also the leading run-scorer on this circuit. Tushar’s first-innings 130 came after South Zone had lost two early wickets on the opening morning….

2:32 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Seven Network and Fox Sports have bagged the broadcast rights for Australian home cricket for the next six years, signing a deal worth AUD 1.182 billion with Cricket Australia. The deal represents a significant jump in revenue for CA, with the previous five-year deal with Channel Nine (international cricket) and Ten (Big Bash League) having been worth around AUD 600 million in total. The…

5:25 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Surrey have signed South Africa’s Dean Elgar as an overseas player for the first couple of months of the county season. Elgar, who had a brief spell at the club in 2015, is expected to be available for the club’s first County Championship game of the season; a match against Hampshire that starts on April 20. While Elgar will be unavailable for a Championship match…

3:00 AM ET Sunrisers Hyderabad 148 for 9 (Dhawan 44, Hooda 32*, Markande 4-23) beat Mumbai Indians 147 for 8 (Lewis 29, Pollard 28, Sandeep 2-25, Kaul 2-29) by one wicketScorecard and ball-by-ball details Siddarth Kaul dismissed Ishan Kishan and Evin Lewis in his first over BCCI Mumbai Indians weaved magic yet again at the venue of their unprecedented third IPL triumph to come back from the dead, but were pipped…