Kagiso Rabada already has 23 wickets this IPL season, and could potentially top Dwayne Bravo’s 32-wicket haul from IPL 2013 12:59 PM ET Liam Brickhill South Africa’s injury worries continue to mount with Kagiso Rabada undergoing a scan for a back niggle a day after being rested from Delhi Capitals’ league fixture against Chennai Super Kings on Wednesday. Rabada has topped the wicket charts in IPL 2019, and has been…
Ashley Giles discusses selection matters with England’s Test captain, coach and selector 12:59 PM ET Ashley Giles has accepted that Alex Hales would still be in England’s World Cup squad if news of his drugs test failures had not been revealed by the media. But Giles, the England men’s team director, has also insisted that Hales has not been “deselected” as a direct result of that indiscretion. Instead, according to…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Kent 131 for 2 (Bell-Drummond 41) beat Surrey 127 (Elgar 62*, Milnes 3-37) by eight wickets Last season’s beaten Royal London Cup finalists Kent opened their south group win account for 2019 by trouncing Surrey by eight wickets at the Kia Oval. In the battle to avoid this season’s South Group wooden spoon, Kent skittled Surrey for 127 inside 36 overs with only Dean…
11:29 AM ET Joe Clarke and Tom Kohler-Cadmore, the pair of highly rated England Lions batsmen, have been informed they will not be considered for selection until further notice. Clarke and Kohler-Cadmore were named during the trial of Worcestershire allrounder Alex Hepburn as members of a WhatsApp group that exchanged disrespectful messages about women in what the judge described as a “pathetic sexist game to collect as many sexual encounters…
William Porterfield and Eoin Morgan pose with the trophy © Getty Images Big Picture Right, here we go then: England are about to hit the home straight, going into a home World Cup. And yet, they might not feel quite so at home in Malahide, where Ireland will be looking to add to their troubles after a rocky week for the ECB. England’s management have spent most of the build-up…
3:00 AM ET Toss Mumbai Indians chose to bat v Sunrisers Hyderabad Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma went against the trend and decided to bat against Sunrisers Hyderabad in a bid to seal a playoff berth. Rohit wanted to take a chance on a fresh Wankhede pitch, despite having the dew factor in mind. The hosts were unchanged compared to two made by Sunrisers. The visitors picked Martin Guptill to…
9:53 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Three security officers from the Ministers’ Security Division (MSD) will accompany the Sri Lankan team for the World Cup in England and Wales. This follows a move from Sri Lanka Cricket to put in place additional security measures following Easter Sunday attacks in Colombo on April 22. “SLC made a special request for additional security, and as such we managed to procure some of the…
Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales do some sprints © Getty Images Eoin Morgan, England’s captain, has said that a “complete breakdown of trust” between Alex Hales and his England team-mates led to his banishment from the one-day squad, and confirmed that it was the senior players who reached the conclusion that they wanted him to play no further part in their World Cup preparations. In a damning expression of the…
9:18 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya Sri Lanka Cricket believes that coach Chandika Hathurusingha and Ashantha de Mel will have no issues working together in the Sri Lankan dressing room, after the pair is said to have “thrashed things out” prior to the latter’s appointment as team manager and selector-on-tour for the World Cup starting at the end of this month. Since de Mel took the reins as chief selector ahead…
5:41 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India’s lead over New Zealand in the ICC Test rankings has narrowed to just two points after the annual update today. In the ODI rankings, England have held on to their top position. Following the update, series from 2015-16 were removed from the calculations and results from 2016-17 and 2017-18 were weighted at 50%, with series after that weighted at 100%. Success against Ireland and…