Month: May 2019

9:33 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Velocity were 111 for 2 in the 17th over. They needed only two runs to win. They were ahead of the game practically its entire duration, but just as everything seemed rosy, five wickets fell… for absolutely no runs. Here’s the story of a collapse most dramatic, as captured by our ball-by-ball commentators. 16.5 Gayakwad to Wyatt, OUT, full on middle and finally, Trailblazers hold…

3:00 AM ET Toss England chose to bowl v Pakistan England have won the toss and put Pakistan into bat in the first ODI at The Oval. Under overcast conditions in a game reduced to 47 overs-a-side due to rain that delayed the start by 75 minutes, Eoin Morgan chose to stick with batting second. With further rain very much possible over the next few hours, DLS could come into…

7:53 AM ET It was only five overs, split over two short spells, but Mitchell Starc‘s first bowl in the middle in three months was enough to get the Australia camp very excited at the prospect of him finding the form that had made him the Player of the Tournament at the 2015 World Cup. Starc, who had been sidelined since the end of the Sri Lanka Test series in…

6:49 AM ET Kedar Jadhav‘s IPL might have come to a premature end because of a shoulder injury, but his World Cup spot is likely to remain intact. ESPNcricnfo understands that the Indian selection committee, led by MSK Prasad, has been told that Jadhav’s injury might not be as serious as earlier feared. With the ICC’s playing conditions for the World Cup allowing teams to make changes to their preliminary…

6:32 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kieron Pollard will turn out for Trinbago Knight Riders, his “home side”, for the 2019 edition of the Caribbean Premier League. Pollard, one of West Indies’ premier short-format allrounders, has never played for the Trinidad and Tobago franchise in the CPL so far, neither in its earlier Red Steel avatar nor the revamped Knight Riders. He spent five seasons with Barbados Tridents and the last…

5:27 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Dom Bess has been given the chance to emerge from the shadow of his senior spin partner at Somerset, Jack Leach, after agreeing to an initial one-month loan deal with Yorkshire. Bess, 21, played in two Tests against Pakistan last summer after Leach was ruled out of the series with a broken thumb, and proved his aptitude for the big stage with a fifty on…