12:27 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff It was the partnership between Sherfane Rutherford and Axar Patel, which took Delhi Capitals from 141 for 5 after 17 overs to 187 for 5 after 20, that took the game away from Royal Challengers Bangalore, Virat Kohli has said after his team went down by 16 runs. “Even after losing the toss, the way we bowled was really nice, we showed a lot of…
3:00 AM ET Big picture It’s the final week of league matches, and it’s fourth-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad taking fifth-placed Kings XI Punjab at home, with only net-run-rate separating them. It means that the match could retrospectively be viewed as a potential quarter-final, with the winner enjoying a two-point gap between them and the bottom four teams, while the loser’s playoff fate will then ride on a host of other results….
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Hardik Pandya effects a run out © BCCI Toss Mumbai Indians opt to field v Kolkata Knight Riders Searching for their ninth straight win over Kolkata Knight Riders, Rohit Sharma opted to field first at Eden Gardens for the first match between the two sides in IPL 2019. Left-arm pacer Barinder Sran was brought into the Mumbai side, in place of the left-arm spinner Anukul Roy. For Knight Riders, there…
6:37 AM ET Bangladesh have added pace bowler Taskin Ahmed and medium-pace-bowling allrounder Farhad Reza to the squad for the tri-series in Ireland, which begins next week. With the addition of the two, the squad has swelled to 19, with the selectors having earlier added offspinner Nayeem Hasan and offspinning allrounder Yasir Ali to the 15-member provisional World Cup squad, which was picked two weeks ago. Taskin’s selection didn’t come…
Sandeep Lamichhane brought a nice mix of his variations to the middle © BCCI Toss Delhi Capitals chose to bat against Royal Challengers Bangalore Delhi Capitals captain Shreyas Iyer opted for first strike against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a key home game as the race for the playoffs gets exciting. Iyer described the pitch as dry, and said that he assumed it would play better in the first half. The…
Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus holds the WCL Division Two trophy aloft during champagne celebrations 4:15 PM ET Namibia 226 for 7 (Birkenstock 61, Fayyaz 2-28) beat Oman 81 (Suraj 27, Frylinck 5-13, Smit 3-21) by 145 runs In a tournament where home-field advantage has often played a huge role in gaining promotion, Namibia was one of the few nations with a relatively modest record playing at home in the World…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Pakistan XI 358 for 7 (Imad 117*, Fakhar 76, Haris 75) beat Kent 258 (Blake 89) by 100 runs Allrounder Imad Wasim hit a career-best List A score of 117 not out to help ease Pakistan to a comfortable 100-run win over Kent in their opening tour match in blustery Beckenham. In his 101st List A appearance and facing up to single-digit temperatures, the…
3:00 AM ET Sussex 298 (Wright 166, Brown 55) beat Middlesex 176 (Hamza 3-43) by 122 runs There may have been some grumbling among Sussex supporters when Luke Wright announced his retirement from red-ball cricket a few weeks ago. The team had just been beaten at home by Leicestershire in their Championship opener, with only one member of the top six passing 50, and it was easy to question the…
11:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff After winning four of their first five matches of this IPL season, Kolkata Knight Riders have lost their last six matches on the bounce. Their batting has come under plenty of criticism for the situation they find themselves in, but Andre Russell believes the blame lies elsewhere. “We have a good team,” Russell said on the eve of Knight Riders’ match against Mumbai Indians. “But…