3:00 AM ET It’s time for IPL 2019’s title bout. In the yellow corner, Chennai Super Kings. In the blue corner, Mumbai Indians. Who will deliver the knockout punch? Here’s ESPNcricinfo’s live updates and analysis. (If the blog does not load for you straightaway, please refresh your page) Source: ESPN Crickinfo
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3:12 AM ET AB de Villiers has pulled back from his earlier interest in taking part in the Big Bash League for 2019-20, casting a major cloud over how Cricket Australia will satisfy its broadcast partners in the search for marquee talent to sell the competition. Last month, de Villiers’ management had indicated to BBL clubs that the former Proteas captain was interested in playing in the competition in 2019-20,…
1:25 AM ET With the World Cup starting on May 30, 18 days after the IPL final, workload management has been a major talking point throughout the season. Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma reckons that the demands of the IPL will help players build towards the showpiece event in England and Wales, rather than lead to burnout. Rohit cited the example of India winning the Champions Trophy in June 2013,…
May 10, 2019 Deivarayan Muthu Mumbai Indians closed out April with four successive games on the road and then edged Sunrisers Hyderabad in a crazy super-over finish at the Wankhede. As things panned out, they had to win their final league game, also at home, against Kolkata Knight Riders to top the points table. Rohit Sharma‘s men ticked it off and pressed onto topple Chennai Super Kings in the first…
5:30 PM ET Danyal Rasool The day Pakistan’s World Cup squad was announced, Mohammad Amir‘s exclusion dominated the headlines. That was perfectly natural; the fascination with the revival of his prodigious teenage talent hasn’t yet died down, and the prospect of a World Cup in England where Pakistan had voluntarily left him out was perplexing to several. But if you looked past the flashiest headlines, the omission of Asif Ali…
5:13 PM ET Eoin Morgan praised Jos Buttler as “the difference between the teams” as England won a run-drenched match at the Ageas Bowl. Buttler thrashed a 50-ball century – the 10th quickest in the history of ODI cricket – to help England to their seventh-highest total in this format of the game. England plundered 74 from the final five overs of their innings (and 101 from the final eight)…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture The IPL’s 12th edition has earned the blockbuster finale it deserves. When Chennai Super Kings won last year, they tied Mumbai Indians’ record of three IPL titles and opened up a debate about which was the better IPL side. After Sunday, that debate may well be decided. Mumbai, who reached Hyderabad four days ago, have enjoyed a near-flawless season. They were at the top half…
3:00 AM ET The Harmanpreet Kaur-led Supernovas elected to bowl against the Mithali Raj-led Velocity in the final of the Women’s T20 Challenge in Jaipur. They went in with the same XI that beat Velocity two nights ago. Meanwhile, Raj announced the inclusion of Devika Vaidya in place of left-arm medium pacer Komal Zanzad, thereby adding depth at the expense of a specialist bowler. Velocity bailed out of a 143…
9:19 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Sanath Jayasundara, a performance analyst working in Sri Lanka Cricket’s “Brain Centre”, has become the latest figure in Sri Lankan cricket to be hit with corruption-related charges. A long-time employee of SLC, Jaysundera has been charged by the ICC with offering a bribe to Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister Harin Fernando, in order to “influence improperly the result, progress, conduct or any other aspect of…