Month: September 2018

12:29 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The second ODI between India and West Indies, scheduled for October 24, could be shifted away from Indore. This is the potential outcome of a tussle over complimentary-ticket allocation between the BCCI and the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA). The disagreement concerns the Holkar Stadium’s pavilion block, which according to the MPCA has a capacity of “close to 7200 seats”. By the state association’s reading…

11:43 AM ET Liam Brickhill A balance between bat and ball is generally held to be the defining trait of a good cricket pitch. But sometimes difficult conditions can make for thoroughly absorbing cricket, as was the case when Zimbabwe made a fist of their defence of a paltry 117 in the opening ODI of their series against South Africa. Both teams were surprised by the bounce on offer, and…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australians 207 for 2 (Finch 54, Shaun Marsh 54*, Mitchell Marsh 53*) trail Pakistan A 278 (Abid Ali 85, Lyon 8-103) by 71 runs Mitchell Marsh celebrates a vital half-century AFP Matt Renshaw suffered a blow to the helmet while fielding at short leg and was subsequently substituted out of Australia’s four-day warm-up fixture against Pakistan A in Dubai. Pakistan A agreed to the visitors replacing…

10:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Bangladesh have included allrounder Lata Mondal in one of five changes in their squad for the four T20Is and one ODI against Pakistan, starting on October 2. Fast bowler Lily Rani Biswas has been dropped from the team that played in the Women’s World T20 Qualifiers in Ireland in July. The other inclusions are Ritu Moni, batsman Sharmin Akter Supta, 19-year old pacer Suraya Azmin,…

7:54 AM ET India and Pakistan were about to talk, then they weren’t and so it is fitting that this week the cricket boards of both countries lock horns in Dubai to try and resolve a longstanding and thorny dispute. The arbitrator, over three days, will be the ICC’s Dispute Resolutions Committee. The dispute is over an agreement signed in April 2014 to play bilateral games – an agreement that…

7:44 AM ET Umar Farooq Spurred on by the first axing of his international career, Mohammad Amir is set to play his first domestic first-class game in Pakistan in three years. Amir will play for Sui Southern Gas Corporation (SSGC) in the ongoing domestic season, after being dropped from the Test squad to take on Australia. Since his reintegration into the Pakistan side, Amir has played 73 international matches across…

6:09 AM ET Chief operating officer Kevin Roberts has re-emerged as the most likely candidate to succeed James Sutherland when the Cricket Australia chief executive exits the role after 17 years. Little more than a week after it appeared that the race was down to CA Board director John Harnden and former Cricket New South Wales chairman John Warn, 46-year-old Roberts is now considered the name first in line amid…

5:16 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Middle-order batsman Karun Nair hasn’t had “any conversations” with the India selectors and team management about why he didn’t play in any of the five Tests in England. Nair was part of India’s original 18-man squad for the Tests in England, but watched Hanuma Vihari, who was called up as a replacement during the series, leapfrog him and make a debut in the fifth Test…

Better equipped to deal with England pressure now – Joe Denly (1:51) Kent’s Joe Denly says he’ll deal with the pressure of playing for England better now than he did during his last call up to the squad (1:51) 5:02 AM ET George Dobell Joe Denly has admitted he “went missing” for a couple of years after his last experience of international cricket. Denly, the 32-year-old Kent batsman, played the…