7:05 AM ET George Dobell Tom Curran has been ruled out of England’s limited-overs games against India with a strain in his left side. He has been replaced in the ODI squad by his younger brother, Sam Curran. Dawid Malan had already been called into the T20I squad as cover. While the replacement of Curran, a seamer, with a batsman, Malan, raised a few eyebrows, an England spokesman confirmed on…
Toss Zimbabwe chose to bowl v Australia Chris Mpofu finds a reason to smile during training © AFP Zimbabwe’s captain Hamilton Masakadza won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in the third match of the Twenty20 triangular tournament in Harare. The day after Billy Stanlake obliterated Pakistan, Masakadza’s call means Aaron Finch’s team will have the task of setting a steep total for the hosts, who lost heavily…
12:46 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shimron Hetmyer has recovered from the illness that kept him out of West Indies’ last Test against Sri Lanka to return to the squad for the two-Test series against Bangladesh. Left-handed batsman Hetmyer was not picked in the XI for the first two Tests of the series against Sri Lanka, before being taken ill ahead of the third Test. Keemo Paul, the right-arm fast bowler…
2:31 PM ET Zimbabwe Cricket has given a lifeline by the ICC, whose board “agreed a package of measures” that will allow ZC to pay its debt while still receiving funding “on a controlled basis”. The ICC has also offered to work with ZC “to develop a plan for managing its cricketing, management and financial structures which will be reviewed on an ongoing basis”. The decision came at the ICC’s…
3:00 AM ET Alan Gardner at The Oval India A 267 for 5 (Pant 64*) beat England Lions 264 for 9 (Hain 108, Livingstone 83, Khaleel 3-48) by five wicketsScorecard The shape of the English summer is set to be defined over the next ten weeks by Virat Kohli’s India. A day out from that tour beginning in earnest, India lifted their first silverware, thanks to the A team’s five-wicket…
1:59 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A player found guilty of ball-tampering can now be banned for up to six Test matches or 12 ODIs. This is among the consequences of the ICC approving significant changes to its code of conduct during its annual conference over the weekend in Dublin. Changing the condition of the ball, previously a Level 2 offence, is now a Level 3 offence. Sanctions for Level 3…
12:27 PM ET It’s not just that Australia are currently lacking half a first-choice team due to injury and suspension, and it’s not just that India are currently rated No. 2 in the ICC’s ODI and IT20 rankings. There’s little doubt that, after a 6-0 start to the white-ball leg of England’s home summer, the true examination of their limited-overs progress is just about to begin. After all, this India…
12:22 PM ET The challenge of beating England in their own den and then walking away with the spoils is “exciting” and not daunting. The thought actually makes India captain Virat Kohli more relaxed than nervous. On Monday, Kohli walked into his first media conference of the two-month-plus-long tour of England with one hand in his pocket. He was calm, not the busybody, full of intent as he is on…
11:25 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kim Barnett has stepped down from his role as a cricket advisor at Derbyshire with immediate effect. Barnett returned to his former club in 2016 as Head of Cricket following a coaching restructure, but the side are languishing at sixth in Division Two of the County Championship, and have won just once this season. John Wright, the former New Zealand opener, will lead the squad…
Morgan ready to experiment with batting line-up (1:24) England captain Eoin Morgan predicts a flexible batting line-up for England during the games against India (1:24) 3:00 AM ET Big picture India are in town, and that usually means packed stadiums anywhere in the world, but Old Trafford on Tuesday will be some way short of a full house. With the T20I coinciding with England’s round-of-16 FIFA World Cup clash against…