Month: April 2019

11:48 AM ET Two Sri Lankan cricketers, Dasun Shanaka and Hasitha Boyagoda, were among the many who narrowly survived the serial blasts that rocked the island on Easter Sunday morning, leaving almost 300 dead and more than 500 injured. It might have unravelled very differently for Shanaka, the 27-year-old international allrounder, had he attended Sunday morning mass at St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, his hometown, that day with his mother…

8:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hyderabad has been confirmed as the venue for the IPL final on May 12 after Chennai Super Kings failed to provide a suitable solution to the long-standing issue of the three disputed – and closed – stands at MA Chidambaram Stadium. As ESPNcricinfo had reported last week, Super Kings – the defending champions and, therefore, the rightful hosts of the final – had been given…

4:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Alyssa Healy has said she understands the reasons for the gender pay gap in cricket but believes the women’s game will continue to push for equal pay. Healy has become one of the stars of the sport after a memorable run of form, that saw her named Player of the Tournament when Australia won the T20 World Cup last year and continued into…

3:59 AM ET Bangladesh bowling coach Courtney Walsh wants fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman to be given enough time to recover from his ankle injury, and not be used too much during the tri-series in Ireland next month. Walsh suggested that given Mustafizur’s habit of picking up small injuries, he should be geared towards his work for the World Cup, which begins two weeks after the Ireland tour. Speaking after the…

Apr 20, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Sussex 302 for 3 (Salt 137*, Finch 89) beat Kent 298 (Renshaw 109) by seven wickets Philip Salt‘s maiden List A hundred powered unbeaten Sussex to a seven-wicket victory and inflicted a third straight Royal London Cup defeat on Kent at Beckenham. Spitfires, last summer’s beaten one-day finalists, underachieved with the bat on a decent pitch at the New County Ground and were blown…

7:44 PM ET USA 250 for 7 (Jones 103*, Walsh 57, Smit 5-66) beat Namibia 248 (Erasmus 92, Bredenkamp 55, Khan 5-46) by two runsScorecard Fast bowler Ali Khan produced his maiden List A five-wicket haul for USA just when they needed it most as his two wickets in the Powerplay were bookended by three more at the death to rally USA to a two-run win over Namibia at Wanderers….

3:49 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Chennai Super Kings lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by one run. MS Dhoni refused two singles in the 19th over. Viewed next to each other, without context, those two facts might suggest that the missed singles cost Super Kings the match. This isn’t true, of course. Dhoni was set, and backed himself to hit the boundaries his team needed when they required 36 off the…