9:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A host of England players will make appearances in the opening rounds of the County Championship – including an enticing match-up between Joe Root and Stuart Broad at Trent Bridge – after player availability was confirmed by the ECB. Mark Wood, Eoin Morgan and Chris Jordan could also feature in Championship fixtures starting on April 5, while the likes of James Anderson and Rory Burns…
Mohammad Abbas in his delivery stride © Pakistan Super League Multan Sultans 141 for 3 (Masood 48, Charles 41*) beat Lahore Qalandars 140 for 8 (Fakhar 53, Wiese 30, Abbas 3-22, Afridi 2-18) by seven wickets How the game played out Unlike JK Rowling, for whom “rock bottom had become the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life”, Lahore Qalandars don’t seem to have any intention of moving from…
8:12 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka batsman Kusal Perera has been ruled out of the remainder of the five-match ODI series against South Africa due to a hamstring injury sustained in Durban on Sunday. The SLC also announced it won’t be sending any replacement players. Perera had a rewarding run in the Test leg of the tour, scoring 353 runs in five innings, including a fifty and a sensational…
Virat Kohli eggs his players on during the Mohali ODI © Getty Images Question marks on the accuracy of the Decision Review System (DRS) have now come up in two successive matches in the ongoing India-Australia series, with Virat Kohli making his displeasure public, saying “it’s just not consistent at all” following an overturned review for caught-behind of Ashton Turner during a crucial passage of play in the fourth ODI…
5:10 AM ET Liam Brickhill Bravery, consistency, and street-smarts – the qualities South Africa captain Faf du Plessis is looking for in his batsmen. Du Plessis praised “a proper batting performance” from his team after they cruised to an unassailable 3-0 series lead with their highest one-day total of the season against Sri Lanka. South Africa’s 331 for 5 was built on Quinton de Kock‘s 108-ball 121 and Rassie van…
Hashim Amla clobbers one away © AFP/Getty Aiden Markram and Hashim Amla will return to South Africa’s squad for the remaining ODIs against Sri Lanka, while JP Duminy is also in line to play his first international cricket for four-and-a-half months as South Africa look to put the finishing touches to their squad ahead of the World Cup. Weight of runs has forced Markram back into contention after he was…
4:17 AM ET Ross Taylor admitted that getting past his late mentor Martin Crowe‘s 17 Test hundreds weighed heavily on him until today, when he reached his 18th. Taylor’s three centuries in 2016 got him close to Crowe’s record but then he took a bit of time to equal him, finally doing it in December 2017 against West Indies. Then, again, he had to wait a long time for the…
4:07 AM ET The latest of many James Pattinson comebacks from injury will have the extra edge of a potential Ashes berth in the offing, when he turns out for Victoria against New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield match at Drummoyne Oval from Tuesday. At the start of this season, Pattinson had set himself the goal of finding a place in Australia’s squad to tour England later this year,…
3:00 AM ET South Australia 7 for 67 (Neser 2-13, Feldman 2-19) trail Queensland 115 (Labuschagne 36, Andrews 6-40) by 48 runs Shane Warne’s favoured maxim “if it seams it spins” held true on day one of the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and South Australia at the Gabba, as left-arm orthodox tweaker Tom Andrews plucked six wickets in the hosts’ paltry 115 before the Redbacks tumbled to 7 for…
Dasgupta: Pant’s missed stumping of Turner crucial (22:37) Brad Hodge and Deep Dasgupta dissect the Mohali ODI (22:37) 3:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Reviewing India’s four-wicket defeat to Australia in Mohali on Sunday, Virat Kohli pointed to his side’s poor fielding – a number of opportunities were missed – as well as a “game-changer” of a DRS decision as big reasons for the result. Australia, set up by a hundred…