3:00 AM ET Toss Kings XI Punjab chose to bowl v Kolkata Knight Riders Kings XI Punjab won the toss and chose to field against Kolkata Knight Riders on a green-tinged pitch at Eden Gardens. Although both teams won their first games of the tournament – Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad following an Andre Russell blitz, while Kings XI suffocated a Rajasthan Royals chase – only Knight Riders have opted…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff MCC 265 and 265 for 4 (Sibley 128) drew with Surrey 520 (Pope 251) Surrey’s bid for victory in the Champion County fixture in Dubai was thwarted by rain, as the final day was curtailed after just 19 overs. MCC had resumed on 221 for 1, a deficit of 34, and had inched into a one-run lead when Tom Westley became the first victim of…
6:59 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Alex Lees says that Cameron Bancroft has the full support of his Durham team-mates after being announced as the club’s captain for the County Championship and Royal London Cup campaigns this season. Bancroft hit the headlines last year for his involvement in Australia’s ball-tampering scandal in their Test series against South Africa. He was banned for nine months by Cricket Australia, but that not…
3:00 AM ET Toss Australia chose to bat v Pakistan Aaron Finch won the toss for the first time this series, and decided to set Pakistan a target. On a slightly greener pitch than usual in Abu Dhabi, Australia will look to seal the series at the earliest opportunity, after having thumped Pakistan in the first two games. Finch said he believed the form of the top-order batsmen meant they…
12:52 AM ET Bruce Yardley, the former Australian spin bowler, coach and commentator, has died in far north Western Australia after a prolonged fight with cancer at the age of 71. Starting his cricketing life as one of many swing and seam bowlers in WA, Yardley found his niche after converting to off-breaks spun idiosyncratically from his right middle and ring fingers, first earning Test selection in the summer of…
10:22 PM ET Sidharth Monga in Delhi Add this to the legend of MS Dhoni. If Dwayne Bravo is to be believed, there are no team meetings at Chennai Super Kings. They don’t plan beforehand; they just rock up and rely on their experience to devise plans on the go. A good example of it was how Bravo recovered from a poor start with the ball. He was brought on…
We over-attacked a bit with the ball – Ponting (4:03) Delhi Capitals coach Ricky Ponting speaks about where the match slipped away from them, and more (4:03) 9:52 PM ET Sidharth Monga in Delhi In the last IPL, it took 16 matches for a team to choose to bat after winning the toss. It is a trend that was established last year: when the tournament and pitches are fresh, bowl…
1:56 PM ET Mohammad Amir’s ODI numbers since the 2017 Champions Trophy make for worrying reading if you’re a Pakistan fan. With just five wickets from his last 14 ODIs and the World Cup less than two months away, Pakistan’s head coach Mickey Arthur has cast doubts over the fast bowler’s inclusion in the side “going forward”. In the 21 months since that Champions Trophy final against India in June…
Buttler dismissal was ‘within the rules of the game’ – Ashwin (1:15) Kings XI Punjab captain R Ashwin defends his controversial dismissal of Jos Buttler in the match against Rajasthan Royals (1:15) 1:41 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff MCC, the guardians of the Laws of Cricket, have defended the controversial circumstances of Jos Buttler’s “Mankad” dismissal by R Ashwin on Monday, stating that it is not against the Spirit of Cricket…
12:30 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ricky Skerritt, the newly elected President of Cricket West Indies, has issued a call for regional unity after ending the six-year reign of his precedessor, Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron, in the board elections in Kingston on Sunday. Skerritt, West Indies’ former team manager, received eight votes to four in a secret ballot conducted during the CWI Annual General Meeting. His running mate, Dr Kishore Shallow, was…