3:00 AM ET Inclement weather in Durban quite literally rained down on Heat’s parade, consigning them to an early elimination from the 2018-19 Mzansi Super League, after their clash against Nelson Mandela Bay Giants ended in a washout. Durban has already been witness to a couple of curtailed games this season, owing to wet weather. But Wednesday witnessed the worst of the rains yet, as only 13.3 overs were bowled,…
3:00 AM ET Tshwane Spartans 122 for 6 (Cloete 30, Frylinck 22*, Shamsi 3-18) beat Paarl Rocks 121 all out (du Plessis 38, Sipamla 3-19) by four wickets This match was billed as a showdown between Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers, who were at Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool together in this very city, playing alongside each other there before moving on to be team-mates at Northerns, Titans and, of…
9:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jaydev Shah, the Saurashtra captain, will retire from all cricket after the upcoming Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka in Rajkot. The son of former BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah, Jaydev has already captained his team to a record 111 matches, the highest for anyone in the Ranji Trophy. The match against Karnataka on December 6 will be his 120th first-class appearance. Jaydev, who made his first-class…
8:11 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi Gaurav Sundararaman Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch have chosen not to enter the IPL auction, keeping in mind Australia’s packed schedule over the first half of 2019 – a home summer followed by a World Cup in England, and then the Ashes series. England’s Sam Curran, one of the finds of 2018 as an allrounder, has put himself in a group of nine capped players…
Ryan Harris, Brad Haddin and Darren Lehmann oversee the intra-squad match © Getty Images Kings XI Punjab have appointed Ryan Harris, the former Australia quick, as the bowling coach for the 2019 IPL season. Harris replaces Venkatesh Prasad, who was in the position last year but resigned recently. Harris was the head coach of the Australia Under-19 team, who were runner-ups in the World Cup earlier this year. Kings XI,…
6:44 AM ET Liam Brickhill Reeza Hendricks has strung together scores of 55, 104*, 108* and 79 in his last four innings, winning three Player-of-the-Match awards on the trot and helping Jozi Stars recover from a difficult start to rise to second on the points table. He has been the talisman that has turned Stars’ Mzansi Super League campaign around, but he does not believe that T20 form will have…
6:36 AM ET Liam Brickhill England’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan has enthusiastically backed cricket’s “brilliant” newest format after turning out for Kerala Knights in the T10 League in Sharjah. Morgan suggested that T10 is the closest cricket will get to baseball, and that the format might even play a role in the sport’s Olympic aspirations. “The T10 format is brilliant,” Morgan told reporters after arriving in South Africa to join…
3:49 AM ET Test-cricket broadcasting will hurtle into a new phase after the free-to-air broadcaster Seven secured permission for in-game interviews with Australian players and coaches during the forthcoming series against India, beginning in Adelaide on Thursday. After extensive off-season discussions with the captain Tim Paine and coach Justin Langer, among others, the network received final signoffs from the ICC, Cricket Australia and the national team on Wednesday afternoon in…
3:00 AM ET Pakistan 224 for 3 (Azhar 111*, Shafiq 55*) trail New Zealand 274 by 50 runs If yesterday talk of couples had revolved around Trent Boult and Tim Southee, today it was all about Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq, whose partnership stands undefeated at 139. The two rocks of Pakistan’s middle order took their side within 50 runs of New Zealand’s first-innings score on the third day in…
Don’t think any Australian side vulnerable at home – Kohli (0:55) Virat Kohli insists India are not taking Australia for granted in the upcoming Test series and his team will have to be at their best to get the results they seek (0:55) 2:16 AM ET For the first time perhaps, India have come to Australia with their bowlers in collective good form. Cricviz data says only four sides have…