3:00 AM ET Heavy rain has washed out all of the first day’s play in Wellington. The umpires called off play at 3:09 pm – roughly half an hour before the scheduled tea break. None of the players from either side turned up at the ground, though a few members of the backroom staff including the Bangladesh coach Steve Rhodes did. Play will begin half an hour early on day…
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3:13 PM ET In 2015, Nathan Lyon was left out of Australia’s World Cup squad in favour of left-arm spinner Xavier Doherty, and has played a mere 18 ODIs since his debut in 2012. The other spinners who were part of the game – Doherty himself and Rangana Herath have both retired from cricket, but Lyon’s ODI career is only beginning to take shape in the lead-up to the 2019…
3:03 PM ET David Willey has appeared to question whether picking Jofra Archer could destabilise England’s World Cup squad. Archer, the Barbados-born fast bowler, is expected to qualify to be eligible to represent England in a few days. But while Trevor Bayliss, the England coach, has already provided a strong hint that he will be given an opportunity in the ODIs against Ireland and Pakistan that precede the final deadline…
Rishabh Pant soaks in the applause of the SCG crowd after bringing up his 2nd Test century 11:31 AM ET Rishabh Pant‘s exploits in international cricket since his debut in England last year have given him a lucrative entrance into BCCI’s annual retainers list. Pant, who was not part of the 26-man contracted players list in 2017-18 is understood to have been placed in Category A for the 2018-19 season,…
Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul were banned for their controversial comments in a TV programme 9:27 AM ET The controversy surrounding Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul over their remarks on an Indian television chat show earlier this year will be the first case the BCCI’s newly-appointed ombudsman Justice DK Jain will adjudicate on. The decision was taken after Justice Jain met all three members of the Committee of Administrators (CoA),…
8:19 AM ET Liam Brickhill Fast bowling has been South Africa’s talisman this season. On pitches tailor-made to suit them, the quicks have dominated both South Africa’s engagements and the headlines, and amid falling batting averages the official line has been that as long as South Africa are winning, who cares if the runs aren’t coming? But a closer look at the numbers shows that while the feeling of a…
6:51 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India women’s stand-in captain for the T20I series, Smriti Mandhana, has urged the domestic players, particularly the batsmen, to step up and play more “fearlessly” to bridge the gap between domestic and international levels. Mandhana’s comments came after India scored a modest 111 for 8 against England in the second T20I, which they lost by five wickets to go down 2-0 in the three-match series….
George Dockrell struck a half-century © Getty Images Andy Balbirnie was the star of the Ireland show as they trumped Afghanistan by four wickets in the third ODI in Dehradun, his 145 not out helping the Irish go over the line with an over to spare to level the series. But Balbirnie needed support, and it came from somewhat unexpected quarters: George Dockrell, who has made his name as a…
Bhuvneshwar is India’s best swing bowler, a useful trait in England © Getty Images Big Picture Australia challenged India in the first two ODIs, but they just couldn’t close those matches out. In Hyderabad, the tourists had reduced India to 99 for 4 in a fairly tricky chase of 237 on a two-paced pitch, but then they couldn’t find a way past MS Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav. Then, in Nagpur,…