Month: February 2019

2:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff As New Zealand firm up on their preparations for the World Cup 2019, one of the spots that could see a shift is at the top, with Henry Nicholls replacing Colin Munro. Nicholls was preferred ahead of Munro in the fourth ODI against India and made an unbeaten 30 as New Zealand chased down India’s 92 all out in just 14.4 overs. Munro was dropped…

10:06 PM ET Bureaucracy beat out common sense in the ICC’s punishment of Sarfaraz Ahmed. That is the pithy assessment of Ehsan Mani, the PCB chairman, who believes the governing body need not have charged Sarfaraz once apologies had been publicly made and accepted. On Sunday, Sarfaraz was handed a four-match ban by the ICC on Sunday for a breach of the Anti-Racism code, bringing an end to a saga…