11:55 AM ET Unbeaten Chennai Super Kings are sitting on the top of the IPL points table. Both victories were achieved with Super Kings in control of the match. For the defending champions to begin confidently this season is not remarkable. However, the make-up of their playing XI has been out of the ordinary. In both games, they have fielded only three overseas players, even though they’ve had the option…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture If the whole series had gone the way the fourth ODI panned out, Pakistan wouldn’t quite have minded, even if the scoreline had been the 4-0 it currently is in favour of Australia. For the first time in the series, the purpose of Pakistan playing their bench strength finally bore fruit with Abid Ali scoring 112 on debut; no one has managed more for Pakistan…
11:13 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A second incident in the first week of the IPL involving a bowler running out a batsman before delivering the ball was averted after Mumbai Indians’ Krunal Pandya decided not to break the stumps after Kings XI Punjab batsman Mayank Agarwal, the non-striker, had left the crease before the ball the released. The incident occurred in the 10th over of the Kings XI innings. Agarwal…
11:05 AM ET Scott Kuggeleijn, the New Zealand bowling allrounder, will replace Lungi Ngidi in Chennai Super Kings’ squad for IPL 2019. Kuggeleijn will strengthen the Super Kings overseas contingent, which was hit first by Ngidi’s withdrawal through injury, and then by David Willey opting out because of personal reasons. In the IPL, replacements can only be sought for players who are injured, meaning Super Kings can’t get anyone to…
3:00 AM ET Delhi Capitals chose to field v Kolkata Knight Riders After electing to bat against Chennai Super Kings on Tuesday, a decision he said was the wrong one, Shreyas Iyer elected to field against Kolkata Knight Riders in Delhi. “We took the wrong decision in the last game,” Iyer said at the toss, “[we] didn’t know how the wicket would play. Have a fair idea of how it’s…
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Imran Tahir celebrates a wicket with his team-mates © BCCI Big Picture It must be tough being Rajasthan Royals right now. Two defeats in two matches in IPL 2019 so far, when they could have won both with better luck and cool-headed execution. If the batting crumbled against Kings XI Punjab with the total within reach, the bowling fumbled against Sunrisers Hyderabad with 198 to defend. These losses will sting…
3:00 AM ET Toss Kings XI Punjab chose to field v Mumbai Indians R Ashwin made one change to their line-up, and chose to chase against Mumbai Indians in the day game in Mohali. Ashwin backed his team’s record at the ground – they won all three games at the ground last season – and said that the breeze in the evening would assist their run-scoring. The change to the…
3:00 AM ET Stumps Victoria 289 and 7 for 207 (Pucovski 51, White 36, Abbott 3-75, Conway 2-31) lead New South Wales 121 by 375 runs Victoria battled their way to a commanding lead over a doughty New South Wales bowling attack on day three of the Sheffield Shield final at a chilly and rainswept Junction Oval in Melbourne. No Victorian batsman managed to top Will Pucovski‘s 51, which itself…
11:26 PM ET Glenn Maxwell and Australia are targeting a 5-0 sweep of Pakistan to finish their dual tour of India and the UAE, which has delivered the tourists as a group and Maxwell himself an enormous amount of growth. Clearly benefiting from added responsibility as an advisor to the captain Aaron Finch, Maxwell has played a pair of his finest limited-overs innings since the 2015 World Cup to help…