Morne Morkel accepts a special award from CSA acting chief executive Thabang Moroe after his last international Test 11:20 AM ET Cricket South Africa has re-committed to the revenue share model with its players and has also reached an interim agreement with the South African Cricketers’ Association (SACA), which will remain in place until the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is completed at the end of June. The MoU between the…
Manjrekar: Think Kings XI have more bases covered (4:34) Shaun Tait and Sanjay Manjrekar pick their XIs for Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab (4:34) 3:00 AM ET Toss Kings XI Punjab chose to bowl v Sunrisers HyderabadLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Kings XI captain R Ashwin called correctly at the toss and inserted Sunrisers Hyderabad on a grassy pitch in Hyderabad. Kings XI made two changes with Chris Gayle…
3:00 AM ET Delhi Daredevils: lost to Kings XI Punjab by 4 runs, lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets, lost to Kolkata Knight Riders by 71 runs Kolkata Knight Riders: lost to Kings XI Punjab by nine wickets (DLS method), beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets, beat Delhi Daredevils by 71 runs Big Picture One win in six games. A new captain. A squad that has failed, so…
8:55 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Aashish Kapoor, the former India offspinner, has replaced Venkatesh Prasad as the chairman of India’s junior selection committee. Kapoor joins Gyanendra Pandey and Rakesh Parekh in the committee. Prasad quit the role in March and joined Kings XI Punjab for the ongoing IPL season. During his tenure, India reached the Under-19 World Cup final twice, and won the title earlier this year. Keeping both positions…
7:13 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Toby Roland-Jones has been ruled out of the remainder of the 2018 season with a recurrence of a stress fracture in his back, a devastating blow for a player who missed this winter’s Ashes through injury, and would have been a strong contender for a recall against Pakistan at Lord’s next month. Roland-Jones suffered soreness in his back during Middlesex’s Championship game against Derbyshire last…
6:33 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi The Champions Trophy is likely to be scrapped, with the ICC planning back-to-back editions of the World T20 instead. The future of the Champions Trophy is on shaky ground again after the ICC board approved replacing the 2021 Champions Trophy, scheduled to be held in India, with a World T20 in the same year. The World T20 will be also played in Australia in 2020….
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Zone came from behind to clinch the Bangladesh Cricket League title for a record third time – the highest in the competition. Having started the game on 47 points, South Zone crushed North Zone by an innings and 63 runs at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna, overtaking them to finish with 65 points. Abdur Razzak was the chief protagonist, snaring his ninth…
3:59 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Ahead of Bangladesh’s tour of South Africa, ODI captain Rumana Ahmed lost both her new bats. An Australian sports outlet had given them to her when she went to the WBBL earlier this year. A couple of days before the team’s flight to Johannesburg, Rumana called Tamim Iqbal and asked if he could arrange a bat for her. Luckily for Rumana, Tamim had a special…
3:01 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The T10 League, which made its debut late last year, is already set for an expansion, with two new teams to be added to the tournament’s second season. Karachians, from Pakistan, and Northern Warriors, based out of India, will join the six other teams to make it a ten-day competition: up from four days in the first season. In addition, Team Sri Lanka will receive…
11:36 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jess Watkin, the 19-year old Central Districts allrounder, and Bernadine Bezuidenhout, the former South African international, have been called up to the New Zealand women squad for their upcoming tour of England and Ireland. The duo was included in a 15-member squad that will play ODIs against England and Ireland, as well as a T20 tri-series featuring New Zealand, England and South Africa. “Jess and…