12:00 AM ET More than a hundred One of the features of the two leading one-day teams in the world – England and India – is the increasing frequency of bigger hundreds. Just witness what Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have been doing against West Indies recently, or what England have done home and away in the last few years. Top-order batsmen are now more regularly going well beyond ‘small’…
To help make this website better, to improve and personalize your experience and for advertising purposes, are you happy to accept cookies and other technologies? Yes More Info Here Cookie Choices Source: ESPN Crickinfo
3:04 PM ET Liam Brickhill Results summary Cape Cobras have already racked up more wins in the opening rounds of this year’s 4-day competition than they did throughout last year’s competition and they solidified their position at the top of the points table with a fourth victory over Dolphins at Newlands. Under a blanket of cloud and the odd break for rain, Cape Cobras took control of the game in…
© Sajjad Hussain/AFP Vinod Rai, the chairman of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) that is overseeing the BCCI, has categorically denied that he acted unilaterally in dealing with the controversy surrounding the sexual-harassment allegations raised by an anonymous person against BCCI chief executive officer Rahul Johri. Rai’s role came into focus after it emerged that Diana Edulji, the other half of the Supreme Court appointed CoA, had differed sharply on…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture A bunch of globe-trotting T20 experts couldn’t stop the Pakistan juggernaut in the first T20I, but they have convinced the top-ranked side that they have an equal footing in the series. New Zealand have already shown the hosts that this series is unlikely to be similar to the one against Australia. This, despite the fact that the New Zealand side has combined after a seven-month…
1:04 PM ET Sidharth Monga in Delhi It took only a session and a half on the first day of Ranji Trophy cricket this season for a player to wear a mask out to the middle. On day one of the game between Mumbai and Railways, at the Karnail Singh Stadium in Delhi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Aditya Tare, Siddhesh Lad and a few other players wore these masks. It’s time to…
11:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Pujara retires hurt because of ‘stiff neck’ A stiff neck had Cheteshwar Pujara retire hurt midway through the opening day of Saurashtra’s Ranji Trophy opener against Chhattisgarh in Rajkot. Pujara had complained of discomfort in the morning because he was trying to bat with an open stance but walked in to bat at his usual No. 3 position. He had faced 64 deliveries for his…
10:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India have their “best chance” to win a Test series in Australia for the first time, Sachin Tendulkar has said. He doesn’t expect it to be easy, but he suggested that the current Australian team, which will most likely be without Steven Smith and David Warner, is inexperienced and not at the level of past teams India have played against. “Possibly our best chance to…
10:01 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The PCB has admitted it could’ve handled better the circumstances around the appointment of Mohsin Khan as the head of their new cricket committee. What should’ve been an early win in Ehsan Mani’s new tenure as board chairman turned instead into a distraction about the Qayyum report on match-fixing. Comments by Mani and then Mohsin on the day of the announcement suggested that the board…
8:47 AM ET Mohammad Isam in Sylhet Bangladesh should keep in mind the need to improve on their Test performances abroad, even while they are playing at home, according to head coach Steve Rhodes. In his first home Test in charge of Bangladesh, Rhodes’ intentions of looking at the larger-picture is something that should please everyone in the set-up, although he maintained that the “win-first” mentality remains at the top…