8:51 AM ET England’s batting plans have been thrown into disarray by injuries to Jason Roy and Eoin Morgan. Both men were forced off the pitch during the West Indies innings and will be unable to bat until five wickets have fallen in the England innings. Roy is England’s opening batsman while Morgan, England’s captain, usually comes in at No. 4. Roy pulled up sharply while chasing a ball in…
3:00 AM ET Big picture If Sri Lanka’s chances of progressing to the semi-finals of the World Cup are slightly better than the one in a million offered to Lloyd Christmas by Mary Swanson in Dumb and Dumber, it’s not by much. But just as Lloyd replied with a goggle-eyed “So you’re telling me there’s a chance?”, so too must Dimuth Karunaratne’s men push on against an Australian side that,…
8:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka team manager Ashantha de Mel has complained to the ICC about the “unfair” pitches he feels Sri Lanka have had to play their matches on, as well as the less-than-ideal training facilities and accommodation. Although their two most-recent matches were washouts in Bristol, Sri Lanka had begun the tournament on two green decks in Cardiff, where they lost to New Zealand and narrowly…
4:15 AM ET Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Chatter, analysis and some silliness from the World Cup 2019. If the blog doesn’t load, please refresh the page. Also, ball-by-ball commentary can be found here. Source: ESPN Crickinfo
3:31 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Papua New Guinea cricket board has suspended 10 of its Under-19 players for a year for bringing the game into disrepute. The sanction is in relation to their conduct in Japan, where they were favourites to win a qualifying tournament for the Under-19 World Cup in 2020; however, 10 players missed a crucial game against Japan and the team had to forfeit the game…
Hussey: It was the David Warner of old (0:41) Michael Hussey reacts to David Warner’s superb 107 off 111 balls against Pakistan, at Taunton (0:41) 2:04 AM ET Australia’s coach Justin Langer has labelled Shaun Marsh a “very, very explosive player” while insisting Usman Khawaja has the ability to adapt to a new batting role in the midst of the World Cup, after the selectors chose to leave middle-order specialists…
2:05 AM ET When does a cricketer feel at home in a team? Some get that sense within the minutes of their first match for a side, others may go seasons without ever quite feeling a part of it, whatever their performances or how things look in all the on-field backslapping. The Australian team can be an unforgiving place. One former opening batsman confessed some years ago that when he…
Morkel: Management’s decision to not include de Villiers is right (2:03) Albie Morkel believes captain Faf du Plessis and the board have made the right call regarding de Villiers’ offer (2:03) 12:20 AM ET South African middle-order batsman Rassie van der Dussen was “not surprised” to hear AB de Villiers wanted to play in the 2019 World Cup but believes it would have set a “difficult precedent” if the former…
8:57 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shikhar Dhawan‘s fractured left hand will be assessed after 10-12 days and India captain Virat Kohli hopes the batsman’s positive mindset will help his recovery. Dhawan was injured in the match against Australia played on June 9, during which he scored a century, and therefore the earliest he will go through an examination of how much his fractured hand has mended can only be made…
7:17 PM ET A few days after the 2015 Trent Bridge debacle, Josh Hazlewood cut an even more agitated figure than the rest at Northampton when advised by the Australian selectors Darren Lehmann and Rod Marsh that his first Ashes series was over with one Test remaining. Four years on, he feels better prepared for his second tilt at a series in England having not lasted the distance four years…