3:00 AM ET Big Picture The first ODI was the kind of match from which both teams may feel they have emerged with credit. New Zealand because it was a comfortable victory in the end, and because Martin Guptill and James Neesham – players who had been out for nine and 18 months respectively – rode fearsomely back into ODI form. Sri Lanka because chasing 372, they were not completely…
12:58 AM ET Alex Malcolm Adelaide Strikers star Rashid Khan is determined to play out the remainder of the Big Bash League despite the recent death of his father. Rashid’s father died on Sunday night, just hours before he took the field in the Strikers’ New Year’s Eve win over Sydney Thunder in Adelaide. The 20-year-old legspinner took 2 for 34 in the 20-run win over the Thunder. He returned…
11:19 PM ET Cricket Australia will assess if the selection criteria used for the men’s team promotes potential too much over on-field performance, as the debate intensifies whether a group of players at state level are being overlooked when they could be better suited for a struggling Test side. The recall of Marnus Labuschagne, who has averaged 28 with the bat this season in the Sheffield Shield and nearly 60…
10:12 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Less than 24 hours after he smashed five sixes in an over on his ODI return, allrounder Jimmy Neesham was recalled in New Zealand’s T20I squad for the one-off T20I against Sri Lanka on January 11 in Auckland. The 13-man squad also saw the return of Mitchell Santner, who recently returned to action with impressive performances in the Super Smash competition, New Zealand’s domestic T20…
© Getty Images Australia have dramatically reshaped their one-day squad for the three-match series against India with just six players retained from those that faced South Africa earlier in the season. This is partly due to the three main quicks – Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins – being rested with an eye on their workload, but there have also been significant changes to the batting line-up with Travis…
6:23 PM ET Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has slammed the reaction Virat Kohli got from the Sydney crowd as “disgraceful”. Kohli walked out to a mix of cheers and loud boos from the SCG crowd on Thursday. He was subject of “Kohli is a w***er” chants in Melbourne, and was booed in Perth. “If it was booing then it’s absolutely disgraceful,” Ponting said on Seven. “I said that in…
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6:09 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mark Waugh hits at BBL battingJanuary 4 The quality of batting in this year’s BBL has provoked debate. Melbourne Renegades have yet to register an individual half-century in five matches and on Thursday limped to 9 for 126 against Adelaide Strikers. Not for the first time it was spin causing the major problems as Liam O’Connor, Rashid Khan and Colin Ingram proved a handful. It…
10:08 AM ET David Warner entered the press conference room several minutes before the scheduled start. He chatted with the journalists in the front row, sharing his knowledge about Aminul Islam, the former Bangladesh captain who resides in Australia, whom he knows by his nickname Bulbul. Warner is one of several big names in this season’s BPL, here because of his ban from Australian cricket till March this year. The…
3:00 AM ET Adelaide Strikers 6 for 158 (Weatherald 71, Boyce 2-16) beat Melbourne Renegades 9 for 126 (Webster 33, Neser 2-10) by 32 runs Jake Weatherald celebrates a thrilling century Getty Images Jake Weatherald found his mojo with a sublime 71 as Adelaide Strikers rolled out their trademark blueprint to strangle the Melbourne Renegades in Geelong. Weatherald appeared to bat on a different surface, with his 71 off 44 balls…