© Getty Images Titans 356 for 5 (Markram 127, de Bruyn 72) beat Dolphins 221 (Vilas 59, Steyn 3-36) by 135 runs Aiden Markram scored his third hundred of the Momentum One-Day Cup to set up a 135-run win for Titans over Dolphins in the final of the competition at Centurion on Sunday. Markram plundered eight sixes and five fours to score 127 from 88 deliveries, boosting Titans to 356…
11:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Winless after three games, Royal Challengers Bangalore will need to be more “experimental” and “brave” when things aren’t going their way, if they are to turn their fortunes around this season. This was Virat Kohli‘s view after Royal Challengers slipped to a 118-run defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad, which he termed as one of his side’s “worst losses ever”. The platform for Sunrisers’ thumping win came…
3:00 AM ET Toss Rajasthan Royals chose to bowl v Chennai Super Kings Ajinkya Rahane won his third toss in a row this season as he elected to bowl against Chennai Super Kings in Chennai. Royals are the only team other than Royal Challengers Bangalore who are yet to register a win so far. They chose to go with an unchanged XI. Super Kings have won both their opening games…
8:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Andrew Strauss has launched a foundation in the name of his late wife, Ruth, who died last year after battling a rare form of lung cancer. The Ruth Strauss Foundation will raise funds to research rare forms of lung cancer and to provide emotional and psychological support to patients and their families. Ruth Strauss died last December, just over a year after being diagnosed with…
3:00 AM ET Big picture Kings XI Punjab should’ve won all three so far. They’ve beaten two sides comprehensively, but have themselves (and Andre Russell) to blame for losing the other. But they like playing in Mohali, where their batsmen can trust the surface and their spinners have the ability to make full use of the wide-square boundaries. They’ll now chase their sixth-straight win at home. But they’ve been on…
3:00 AM ET Toss Pakistan opt to field Australia For the second game running, Pakistan put Australia into bat. This is in quest to prevent a 5-0 whitewash that will complete a successful Asian sojourn for the visitors, who beat India 3-2 earlier this month. Imad Wasim, who takes charge of Pakistan again in Shoaib Malik’s absence, hoped his side could control the chase, much like they did for large…
© BCCI Toss Royal Challengers Bangalore chose to bowl v Sunrisers Hyderabad Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli chose to bowl on a hot afternoon in Hyderabad, expecting a dry pitch to be slower in the first half of the match. Sunrisers Hyderabad are led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar again, with regular captain Kane Williamson out with a niggle. Royal Challengers made one change by bringing in 16-year-old legspinner Prayas Ray…
3:00 AM ET Victoria 289 (Harris 141, Copeland 5-74) and 219 (Pucovski 51, Abbott 4-82, Copeland 3-52) beat New South Wales 121 (Siddle 5-28, Pattinson 3-30) and 210 (Patterson 76, Pattinson 4-41, Boland 3-30) by 177 runs Another shattering spell from James Pattinson delivered Victoria their fourth Sheffield Shield title in five summers with a day to spare at Junction Oval and presented a near undeniable case for the fast…
A dejected Dimuth Karunaratne walks off the field © Tom Dulat/Stringer Dimuth Karunaratne, Sri Lanka’s Test captain, was arrested for drink driving in Colombo on Sunday morning after he was involved in an accident that put the driver of a three-wheeler in hospital. According to police, the injured driver has sustained only minor injuries. Karunaratne has been granted bail, having been taken into custody at roughly 5:40am Sri Lanka time…
1:41 AM ET Glenn Maxwell can be as good as Virat Kohli if he continues to ally newfound discipline and purpose to the talent he has demonstrated for a long time, Australia’s coach Justin Langer has declared. Ahead of the final ODI between Australia and Pakistan in Dubai, Langer delivered the bold call when queried about how Maxwell had improved over the course of the season, from a time when…