3:00 AM ET Kolkata Knight Riders: lost to Mumbai Indians by 13 runs, defeated Chennai Super Kings by six wickets, defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets Mumbai Indians: defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 13 runs, defeated Kings XI Punjab by six wickets, lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by 14 runs Big picture When TS Eliot penned “April is the cruelest month” in The Waste Land, it’s quite likely he…
Can cricketers compete with MLB legends? (1:59) Nat Coombs met up with England’s Alex Hales and Jos Buttler at the MLB Battlegrounds event in London to see if they could keep up with MLB legends. (1:59) 9:31 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff London’s Olympic Stadium may not have been deemed suitable to host any Cricket World Cup matches next summer, but the venue holds no such concerns for Major League Baseball,…
8:22 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Batsmen Shreyas Iyer and Ambati Rayudu have been selected in India’s ODI squad for the three-match ODI series in England. ODI squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (wk), Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Siddarth Kaul, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar Kumar More to follow Source: ESPN Crickinfo
8:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are missing from India’s Test squad to play Afghanistan. Ajinkya Rahane has been named captain of the side, while Kohli gears up for the tour of England with a county stint with Surrey. Afghanistan will play their first ever Test, against India, from June 14 to 18 in Bengaluru. It will also be the first Test…
6:37 AM ET Umar Farooq Former Pakistan legspinner Mushtaq Ahmed has signed a one-month contract as West Indies’ spin-bowling coach. Mushtaq’s contract with the PCB as the National Cricket Academy head coach ended last month and the extension takes effect from July, allowing him to take up the role with Cricket West Indies. “It’s a privilege to work with the West Indies cricket team,” Mushtaq told ESPNcricinfo. “They have produced…
10:12 PM ET Adelaide’s annual Test match will be an all-day affair for the first time since 2014 after Cricket Australia (CA) conceded that the BCCI would not accept a pink-ball fixture. CA’s chief executive James Sutherland had held out hope of a day-night match until as recently as last week’s announcement of the schedule for 2017-18, but his arguments failed to convince the BCCI. BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhury…
© Getty Images Tim Paine and Aaron Finch will share Australia’s limited-overs leadership duties in England this June, with Alex Carey promoted to the Twenty20 vice-captaincy. Also, Nathan Lyon and favoured son Shaun Marsh have been recalled in the first squads to bear the selection fingerprints of the new coach Justin Langer. In the absence of the suspended Steven Smith and David Warner, Paine has been elevated to the ODI…
3:00 AM ET Somerset 429 (Bartlett 110, Trescothick 100, Abell 99) and 269 for 8 dec (Leach 66, Davies 54, Parkinson 5-101) drew with Lancashire 492 (Vilas 235*, Jennings 109, Clark 50, Abell 4-43)Scorecard On a Bank Holiday afternoon made for hammock-ease and somnolence Lancashire and Somerset concocted cricket worthy of everyone’s close attention at Emirates Old Trafford. That the game would end in a draw only became apparent in…
3:00 AM ET Nottinghamshire 302 (Patel 73, Wessels 54, Edwards 4-84) and 389 for 9 dec (Mullaney 130, Taylor 83, Libby 54) beat Hampshire 223 (Amla 69, McManus 66, Patel 3-25) and 265 (Amla 112) by 203 runsScorecard Nottinghamshire have moved 17 points clear at the top of the Division One table after a hard-fought victory over Hampshire at Trent Bridge. The margin may look comfortable but, such was Hashim…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Durham 184 (Clark 64, Griffiths 4-34) and 403 (Markram 94, Steel 86, Smith 74, Griffiths 6-49) beat Leicestershire 440 (Cosgrove 75, Horton 75, Carberry 73, Dexter 70*) and 101 (Weighell 7-32)Scorecard James Weighell produced a stunning match-winning spell of 7 for 32 to inspire Durham to a 46-run win over Leicestershire in their Specsavers County Championship contest, triumphing for the first time after following…