3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Spinners help Gujarat get on the points table After being pushed to the bottom half of the Group A table in the Super League stage of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Gujarat finally registered a win, their spinners applying the choke on bottom-placed Railways. Led by Piyush Chawla, Gujarat’s bowlers restricted Railways to 110 for 9 in 20 overs and their batsmen then needed less…
12:17 AM ET Kane Williamson was taken to hospital for scans on his injured shoulder, and didn’t come out to field in the Bangladesh second innings in the ongoing second Test in Wellington. The New Zealand captain picked up the injury during the third day’s play when he fell awkwardly trying to stop a ball at gully. While batting during the first session on the fourth day of the rain-hit…
12:06 AM ET Jason Holder insisted he was “not too disheartened” by West Indies’ defeat in the T20I series against England. While West Indies had appeared to have turned a corner in recent weeks, they rounded off England’s tour of the Caribbean by subsiding to two of the heaviest defeats in their T20 history in the last couple of games. But while Holder, the West Indies captain, admitted the results…
Comeback man Mosharraf Hossain is applauded by his team-mates © Associated Press Bangladesh cricketer Mosharraf Hossain has been diagnosed with brain tumour. Mosharraf is currently trying to complete visa formalities for Singapore where he wants to get the tumorous lump removed. The diagnosis, carried out a couple of days ago at a Dhaka hospital, revealed that the tumour is in its early stages. “It needs an operation,” Mosharraf told the…
Ross Taylor whips the ball into the leg side © Getty Images Lunch New Zealand 198 for 3 (Taylor 103*, Nicholls 9*, Jayed 2-52) trail Bangladesh 211 by 13 runs Coming into this game, Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor had played 162 Tests between them, and Abu Jayed, Ebadot Hossain and Mustafizur Rahman a combined 17. That experience gap proved crucial in a fascinating first session on day four, as…
Trevor Bayliss and Eoin Morgan © Getty Images England’s World Cup selection puzzle just got harder, given some of the individual performances in the T20I series sweep against West Indies, Trevor Bayliss says. Bayliss said England selectors were closer to deciding their squad of 15, due to be named by April 23 but which can be changed up until May 22, eight days before the tournament starts.However, he believed their…
Eoin Morgan leaves the field after sealing England’s 3-0 clean sweep © AFP Eoin Morgan believes his England side played “close to perfect” cricket in completing a second successive crushing defeat over West Indies. Having bowled West Indies out for 45 on Friday, England bowled them out for 71 here, meaning they had taken 20 wickets in 24.5 overs for a combined cost of 116 runs in 48 hours; an…
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The Indian players walk out for the Ranchi ODI in their army camouflage caps © Getty Images The Pakistan Cricket Board has taken “strong notice” of India’s use of army camouflage caps during their third ODI against Australia in Ranchi, urging the ICC to take action against the BCCI. MS Dhoni, who is an honorary lieutenant colonel in the Indian territorial army, was seen distributing army caps to the team…
Ahmed Shehzad steers one towards third man © Pakistan Super League Karachi Kings 190 for 5 (Babar 56, Iftikhar 44*) beat Quetta Gladiators 189 for 7 (Shehzad 99, Umer 3-26, Shinwari 3-43) by one run How the game played out This was a match Quetta Gladiators appeared to have won so many times you could swear they’d have four points rather than the usual two added to their already burgeoning…