Month: April 2018

9:19 AM ET Subhankar Bhattacharya Former South African fast bowler Morne Morkel has signed a two-year contract with Surrey. Morkel will slot into Surrey’s setup as a Kolpak registered player and will be available to play in all three formats of the game. Having retired only a few weeks ago from international cricket, several English counties had expressed their interest in roping in the big South African, but Surrey possessed…

8:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Zimbabwe Cricket, still reeling from their inability to qualify for the World Cup and the sacking of the organisation’s entire coaching staff, will host Australia and Pakistan in July for a T20I triangular tournament and then Pakistan for five ODIs. Neither country will play a Test in Zimbabwe, although the FTP had Australia pencilled in for one Test and Pakistan for two, further underlining ZC’s…

6:15 AM ET Chennai Super Kings and TNCA officials are confident of the side’s first home game in nearly three years going ahead uninterrupted and on time despite calls for political protests around the match. Arrests were made outside MA Chidambram stadium on Tuesday morning to prevent any interruptions. “The match will go on as planned. We do not expect any disruptions and all security measures are in place. We…

2:51 PM ET David Willey is poised to become the 12th England player to receive a call up to the IPL. Yorkshire have received the paperwork from the ECB, who act as the initial broker between the IPL and the counties, and are bracing themselves for the inevitable. The England all-rounder left a pre-season friendly in Leicester on Monday to finalise terms with Chennai Super Kings. The English counties are…

3:00 AM ET Sunrisers Hyderabad 127 for 1 (Dhawan 77*, Williamson 36*) beat Rajasthan Royals 125 for 9 (Samson 49, Kaul 2-17, Shakib 2-23) by nine wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Billy Stanlake stood out as much for his stature as his bowling BCCI In a nutshell No team had chased more than 146 to win in Hyderabad since 2015. Without David Warner, their highest run-getter in each of the previous three…

1:17 PM ET David Willey is on the verge of becoming the 12th England player to receive a call up to the IPL. Yorkshire have yet to receive any paperwork from the ECB, who act as the initial broker between the IPL and the counties, but they are bracing themselves for the inevitable. The English counties are now largely resigned to losing their best one-day players in the IPL auction,…

3:00 AM ET Toss Sunrisers Hyderabad opt to bowl v Rajasthan Royals Kane Williamson, the Sunrisers Hyderabad captain, continued the season’s early trend of captains electing to chase, on his IPL captaincy debut in front of their home fans at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Teams have tended to bat first, mostly, because no 150-plus target has been chased down in the last three IPL seasons in Hyderabad. Sunrisers preferred…