Month: May 2019

3:00 AM ET The Ireland versus Bangladesh ODI – the third of the tri-nation series, involving West Indies as the other team – was called off due to heavy rain in Malahide. The match officials waited till 2.15pm local time before making the decision as the rain didn’t stop for much of the morning and afternoon. The toss also didn’t take place as the rain began soon after the teams…

3:00 AM ET Big picture At its core, good sport is meant to shock us. To move us. To sweep us up in its awesomeness. Delhi Capitals weren’t supposed to come this far – they had never even won an IPL playoff match before last night. But here they are as cricket tries its hardest not to lag behind football, which is putting on such a wondrous spectacle in Europe….

2:17 AM ET Alex Malcolm Former Australia batsman Cameron White has not been offered a contract with Victoria for next season leaving his Australian domestic career in limbo. White, 35, played in Victoria’s and Melbourne Renegades’ unprecedented Australian domestic treble this season featuring in both the JLT One-Day Cup and Sheffield Shield titles for Victoria and the BBL title for the Renegades, but he was dropped by both sides during…

1:28 AM ET Kane Richardson‘s first World Cup memory was buying the VHS of Australia’s 1999 triumph. Now, 20 years on, he has the chance to follow the “dream” having as recently as six months ago assumed he may never get the opportunity. Richardson was in the mix for the 2015 tournament on home soil but didn’t make the final cut and after that struggled to cement a position over…

4:49 PM ET It was only four overs, but the evidence was compelling: there is simply no way Jofra Archer can be left out of England’s World Cup squad. And realistically, the final word of the preceding sentence should be ‘team”. Indeed, so compelling was the evidence that even the last resistance to Archer’s inclusion – the England bowlers whose position he threatens – appear to have been won over….

The Delhi Capitals players can’t contain their emotions after winning their first playoff match  3:28 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Delhi Capitals captain Shreyas Iyer has said the last two overs of their chase in the IPL eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad were “like hell”. In that time, Capitals saw a straightforward equation of 12 runs from 12 balls come down to two needed off the last two with three wickets also…

12:50 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Morris will join Hampshire for this year’s Vitality Blast. The 32-year-old allrounder Morris was this week called into South Africa’s World Cup squad as a replacement for fast bowler Anrich Nortje, who was ruled out of the tournament because of a fractured thumb. Morris will join Hampshire at the end of his World Cup commitments and will be available for the entire Blast season….

10:38 AM ET A plan to involve Younis Khan, Pakistan’s highest run-scorer in Test cricket, in the country’s Under-19 coaching set-up has fallen through after the former captain and the PCB failed to reach an agreement. One of the sticking points, ESPNcricinfo understands, had to do with finances, while the other was with the job profile, as the PCB had proposed Younis only be a mentor and a coach, but…