4:44 AM ET Rishabh Pant will fly in this week to join the Indian squad as a cover for Shikhar Dhawan, who suffered a hairline fracture after being hit on the left thumb against Australia on Sunday. Pant was one of the five stand-bys announced by the selectors in April while announcing the 15-man squad. Following an update from the medical team on Tuesday, India had opted to retain Dhawan…
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Jun 10, 2019 Alex Malcolm Australian cricket’s prime time broadcast footprint is to be vastly expanded as the WBBL launches its first standalone tournament from October 18 to December 8. Twenty-three of the 59 games will be shown on free-to-air network Seven and the subscription broadcaster Fox Sports, with the vast majority programmed for Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays in effort to focus the competition around times when most viewers…
Jun 10, 2019 Durham 209 for 7 (Raine 75*, Carse 47*) v Northamptonshire Ben Raine is the sort of cricketer who can make Durham feel Ben Stokes’ perpetual absence with England a little less intensely. To call him a ready-made replacement would be asking too much because there are few players in the world with Stokes’ prodigious ability. But at his best he has the same combative, dog-with-a-bone qualities and…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 167 for 5 (Labuschagne 37) v Derbyshire Glamorgan reached 167 for 5 on a rain-affected first day of their Specsavers Championship match at the St Helen’s ground in Swansea. Four batsmen were dismissed between 28 and 37 as a day that started late was ended by bad light 24.3 overs before the scheduled close. Derbyshire’s seamers kept a tight rein and made the…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Sussex 257 for 7 (Beer 76*, van Zyl 54) v Gloucestershire Will Beer, opening for Sussex for the first time, scored a career-best 76 not out against Gloucestershire on the opening day of their County Championship Division Two match at Arundel. Beer could not be described as a like-for-like replacement for the in-form dasher Phil Salt, who is missing this game with a badly…
1:00 PM ET Mark Wood believes England have a fast-bowling attack at the World Cup that “ruffles feathers” and creates fear in the opposition. Wood, who has sent down the fastest delivery of the tournament so far, is one of four England bowlers to have recorded bowling speeds of 90mph in and one of two to have recorded a speed of 95mph. As a result, he believes “opposition batsmen don’t…
‘Warner will be back to his dangerous best’ – Finch (1:00) Australia captain Aaron Finch has no concerns over David Warner rediscovering his form ahead of their next World Cup match against Pakistan (1:00) 12:24 PM ET David Warner is a meme in Pakistan now. His face has been superimposed on the face of a model selling a washing powder, and issuing an open challenge to other competitors. The text…
11:26 AM ET Roll into town. Assess the conditions. Do your homework on the opposition. Play well. Get the win. Forget it. Roll on the next town. Repeat. Sounds both simple and sensible, doesn’t it? That’s been the mantra for New Zealand’s campaign and, so far, it’s worked a perfunctory treat. Three wins from three games, virtually all players making significant contributions and conditions suiting their strengths nicely. But now…
11:18 AM ET Mohammad Isam in Bristol “We put men on the moon, so why can’t we have a reserve day, when actually this tournament is a long tournament,” Steve Rhodes asked, still fuming at the fact that Bangladesh were forced to split points after a washout against Sri Lanka in Bristol on Thursday. Rhodes was reacting to a question on the number of rained out matches – three so…