Month: May 2019

6:03 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Asghar Afghan’s removal as Afghanistan’s ODI captain less than two months before the World Cup had garnered criticism from some of the team’s senior players, but his replacement Gulbadin Naib quelled any murmurs of disharmony within the team, saying he still considered Asghar as his captain. “Asghar Afghan is still my captain,” Naib told ICC. “We played our last few games against Ireland and Scotland,…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka chose to bowl v South Africa Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bowl against South Africa in the World Cup warm-up against South Africa in Cardiff. Captain Dimuth Karunaratne felt that there’d be some assistance for his seamers early on, while Faf du Plessis was happy to have a bat. Although both teams are allowed to field all fifteen members of…

5:14 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rohit Sharma‘s batting at the top of the order in ODIs is a study in contrast to the methods in vogue at the moment, with batsmen preferring to attack hard early. Rohit is not averse to taking his time at the start and settling in, before exploding with greater force as the innings progresses. India’s limited-overs vice-captain is the only man with multiple double-centuries in…

3:00 AM ET Danyal Rasool Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Catch all the action, analysis, numbers, tweets, banter and more from the Afghanistan v Pakistan warm-up match. If you don’t see the blog immediately below, please refresh the page Source: ESPN Crickinfo

10:43 PM ET Michael Slater, the former Australia opening batsman and now commentator, will be heard on Channel Nine’s World Cup broadcast after the ICC confirmed he remains a part of the world broadcast feed for the event, due to begin on May 30. Following a highly publicised incident on Sunday when Slater was escorted from a Qantas domestic flight from Sydney to his hometown of Wagga Wagga, after becoming…

3:00 AM ET Kent 294 (Dickson 128, Crawley 63) and 352 for 8 (Dickson 91, Kuhn 81, Mulder 68) drew with Surrey 439 (Jacks 120, Borthwick 95, Clarke 88) and 280 (Curran 80, Borthwick 58) By the end of this fluctuating, frequently fascinating match, 22 players and a couple of physios will quite definitely have earned their sleep. Whether Surrey’s bowlers, who threw everything they had at a Kent side…

3:00 AM ET Sussex 422 (Jordan 166, Brown 156) and 339 for 4 dec (Salt 122, van Zyl, 81*, Brown 60*) drew with Northamptonshire 368 (Vasconcelos 83, Buck 51) and 288 for 6 (Rossington 69*, Cobb 68, Hamza 4-51) It has been a tough start to the season for Northamptonshire, who had a chastening time in the 50-overs matches and came back to four-day cricket to be beaten effectively in…

1:09 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Wives and family members of Pakistan’s players at the World Cup will not be permitted to stay with them for the duration of the tournament in England. According to a new PCB policy, any cricketer’s family members who wish to travel along with the player will have to make their own arrangements throughout the event. ESPNcricinfo understands that the decision is intended to keep players…

Kane Williamson will hope for a World Cup similar to 2015, Dimuth Karunaratne probably not  12:38 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Aaron Finch (Australia) It’s a good question, I think, England have been in great form over the last couple of years and along with India, they’ve probably been the standout performers. So you’d have to say England are definitely the favourites. I think it’s important that some of our guys…

3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards at Newport Hampshire 310 (Weatherley 66, Fletcher 4-79) and 367 for 5 declared (Northeast 133, Rahane 119, Alsop 51*) beat Nottinghamshire 239 (Mullaney 102, Barker 3-46, Edwards 3-49, Abbott 3-61) and 194 (Nash 60, Edwards 3-37, Barker 3-42, Abbott 3-46) by 244 runs Just before 11.30 on the final morning of this game the Radio Solent gazebo nearly blew away. For an alarming moment we…