Month: December 2018

4:11 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Netherlands have included uncapped offspinner Leon Turmaine and seamer Sebastiaan Braat in their squad for their tour of India in February-March next year. Netherlands will play a T20I quadrangular series, involving Oman, Ireland, and Scotland in Oman, from 8 to 18 February before travelling to India to play a number of first-class sides. For Oman tour: Pieter Seelaar (capt), Wesley Barresi, Ben Cooper, Ryan ten…

3:20 AM ET No-one has spent more time batting on the MCG’s hotly-debated pitches this season than Marcus Harris, and he has counselled his team-mates not to judge the surface by the expected preponderance of green grass geared towards ensuring a result after last year’s bore draw during the Ashes series. Harris got the fright of his life when he saw the pitch for the Sheffield Shield match, admitting now…

Decision on Mayank will be taken in 24 hours – Shastri (3:08) India coach Ravi Shastri has also revealed that Ravindra Jadeja has been carrying a shoulder niggle injury even before he landed in Australia (3:08) 2:57 AM ET Ravindra Jadeja has been carrying an injury from even before he landed in Australia, and yet he was named in the 13 for the Perth Test even when not fully fit,…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand allrounder Sophie Devine produced a stunning all-round display as she became the first player in WBBL to score a half-century and take five wickets in the same match. She only came up five runs short of a century, clubbing 95 off 60 balls for Adelaide Strikers – an innings that included five sixes – adding 131 for the third with Bridget Patterson before…

12:09 AM ET Ravindra Jadeja has been carrying an injury from even before he landed in Australia, and yet he was named in the 13 for the Perth Test even when not fully fit, India’s coach Ravi Shastri has revealed. In trying to defend himself against criticism from all corners regarding the selection of the XI in Perth, Shastri has not only opened himself up to more criticism, but has…

9:53 PM ET Australia’s opening batsman Aaron Finch has rarely felt more pain on the cricket field than in the moments after his battered right index finger was jammed by Mohammed Shami in Perth, to the point that it felt like the digit was “going to explode” from a blow that left bone visible from a deep cut. However, Finch is adamant he will be fit to play on Boxing…

12:01 PM ET Liam Brickhill Results summary After a month of T20 cricket during the inaugural Mzansi Super League, South Africa’s domestic cricketers returned to four-day mode. The transition appeared easier for some than for others. Six of the Lions‘ XI (seven, if you count Wihan Lubbe, who filled in for one game before moving to Giants) were part of the victorious Jozi Stars team that lifted the MSL title,…

The Feroz Shah Kotla witnessed a morning session foggier than the previous three days  11:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff After smog, pollution and an intruder driving onto the pitch, Ranji cricket in Delhi has encountered another strange reason for a delay. Even as overheard conditions aided the scheduled start, Saturday’s Delhi-Madhya Pradesh fixture at the Feroze Shah Kotla was delayed for more than two-and-half-hours after Sunil Chauhan, the BCCI’s north…

Carlos Brathwaite protests with Masudur Rahman about a controversial no-ball call by umpire Tanvir Ahmed (right)  9:00 AM ET Mohammad Isam in Mirpur Play was stopped for at least eight minutes during the series-deciding third T20I in Mirpur after West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite contested a dubious on-field call by umpire Tanvir Ahmed. The incident occurred in the fourth over of Bangladesh’s chase when Ahmed called wrongly a no-ball off…