Month: April 2018

7:22 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi IPL rights holder Star India has allowed India’s free-to-air national television channel, Doordarshan, to broadcast select matches on a delayed feed, at the Indian government’s request. After an informal agreement was reached on Thursday, Doordarshan will telecast the 8pm match on Sundays during the league phase of the IPL, the four knockout matches and the final, as well as the tournament opener. The games will…

6:01 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Russel Arnold, the former Sri Lanka batsman, and commentator, has been appointed tournament director for the Lankan Premier League, to be played in August and September. Having officially signed on several days ago, Arnold’s work begins in earnest in May. Although planning remains in the early stages, Sri Lanka Cricket is also attempting to lure second-string India players to the tournament, with SLC president…

5:57 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England fast bowler Liam Plunkett will replace the injured Kagiso Rabada in the Delhi Daredevils squad for the 2018 season of the IPL. Plunkett entry takes the number of England players in the IPL to 11, with Jofra Archer – who is qualifying to play for England – the 12th. Rabada, who was Player of the Test series against Australia for taking 23 wickets, was…

1:37 PM ET George Dobell Joe Clarke could be the new Joe Root, according to Root’s former batting mentor. Kevin Sharp, for many years a player and coach at Yorkshire, worked with Root as a developing player. Now head coach of Worcestershire, Sharp believes 21-year-old Clarke shares many of the same attributes as the England captain and feels he would do well if picked for the Test team this summer….

1:30 PM ET George Dobell Worcestershire hope to play their first home match of the season at their New Road ground despite several feet of floodwater currently covering the pitch. Worcestershire are due to host Nottinghamshire in a Division One County Championship match on April 27; a match in which Stuart Broad is scheduled to be available for the visitors. While Worcestershire do have contingency plans to relocate to the…

11:41 AM ET Vishal Dikshit in Mumbai Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming is not worried about his team returning to the IPL after a long gap or about the reason behind the team’s suspension having any kind of effect on the players. On the eve of the tournament’s opener against Mumbai Indians on Saturday, Fleming spoke lucidly about the team having the usual “nerves” because of the two-year gap…

3:00 AM ET Big picture Vinay Kumar to [Mohit] Sharma, FOUR, top edge over the keeper’s head, but Mumbai Indians don’t care where the ball has gone. This is a legal delivery, and that means they have won the IPL again May 24, 2015, Eden Gardens. We didn’t know it then, but this would be the last bit of on-field action for Chennai Super Kings for close to three years….

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India women 208 for 9 (Mandhana 86, Deepti 24, Ecclestone 4 for 37) beat England women 207 (Wilson 45, Beaumont 37, Poonam 4-30, Bisht 3-49) by one wicket Smriti Mandhana flicks the ball in front of square BCCI How would you describe the 2017 Women’s World Cup final? A thriller? If so, the next ODI between India and England turned out to be nothing less –…

9:32 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The England & Wales Cricket Board have suffered a blow in their efforts to widen the reach of the game among children and families, with the news that Matt Dwyer, their highly rated director of growth and participation, is leaving to take up a new role in tennis administration in his native Australia. Dwyer, who joined the ECB in 2015 from a similar role with…

Runorder: Can Sunrisers overcome the loss of David Warner? (4:07) Ajit Agarkar, Cyrus Broacha and the ESPNcricinfo team discuss the potential impact of the absence of the explosive Australian opener (4:07) 8:27 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sunrisers Hyderabad suffered a huge loss – their first-choice captain and best batsman David Warner was a href=”http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1141873.html” target=”_blank”>barred from playing this IPL because of the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa – but the…