7:41 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kumar Dharmasena will umpire Sunday’s World Cup final between England and New Zealand, despite his incorrect decision to give Jason Roy out in yesterday’s semi-final. Dharmasena gave Roy out caught behind on 85 off Pat Cummins, despite replays showing that he had made no contact with the ball. The umpire appeared to suggest Roy should refer the decision if he didn’t think he was out,…
7:20 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Martin Guptill was at deep backward square leg. And at first he didn’t quite catch where the ball was. Then he realised it was dribbling over to him. And that MS Dhoni was looking for a very difficult second run. Guptill went full sprint at the ball, picked it up with his right hand, took aim while somehow retaining perfect balance and shot down the…
7:16 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India coach Ravi Shastri has acknowledged that the team missed a “solid” middle-order batsman, particularly in the semi-final, where their leading run-scorers Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were dismissed cheaply. His statements come in the context of the talk – from before the World Cup – focused on the No. 4 spot and the middle order in general, which cropped up again following the 18-run…
© PA Photos England have never yet won the World Cup in 44 years, although that might yet be about to change as they prepare to make it fourth time lucky in Sunday’s final against New Zealand. But how have they actually acquitted themselves in their 11 previous campaigns? Here we rate their failed attempts from least-worst to the absolute pits… 1992: Lost to Pakistan, Final How can you legislate…
#PoliteEnquiries: Roy v Dharmasena, Psychic Jofra, is MS Dhoni finished? (5:31) Melinda Farrell and George Dobell return to answer your questions after the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup. (5:31) 6:02 AM ET Trevor Bayliss has reminded the England team they “have not won anything yet”, in spite of the euphoria surrounding their crushing semi-final victory over Australia. Although Bayliss admitted England’s eight-wicket victory at Edgbaston was “extra special”, he…
AB de Villiers confirmed he had spoken to Faf du Plessis shortly before the World Cup squad was named 4:57 AM ET Former South Africa captain AB de Villiers has revealed that on the day he announced his international retirement, in May 2018, he was asked privately by a person from within the Cricket South Africa set-up whether “the door was still open” for him to play the World Cup….
Shane Getkate during his U-19 days. The allrounder played 12 youth ODIs for Ireland between 2008 and 2012 3:30 AM ET Hemant Brar Shane Getkate was “quite calm” when he scored the winning runs for Ireland on his ODI debut, against Zimbabwe on July 1. That calmness doesn’t come as a surprise: the 27-year-old allrounder spent most of his teenage years trying to calm himself down whenever he felt his…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 190 (Iyer 77, Vihari 34, Chase 4-19, Akeem 3-43) beat West Indies A 125 (Carter 41*, Powell 41, Khaleel 3-16, Axar 2-16) by 65 runs With India’s middle-order problems in the spotlight following their World Cup semi-final defeat to New Zealand, and the senior team’s tour of West Indies on the horizon, Shreyas Iyer made an early case for himself, with a match-defining…
Captain Morgan sends England to the World Cup final (0:33) Captain Morgan sends England to the World Cup final (0:33) 5:55 PM ET Eoin Morgan has admitted the prospect of playing in a World Cup final seemed laughable by the time England were knocked out of the 2015 World Cup. England endured a miserable campaign in New Zealand and Australia four-years ago sustaining a series of crushing defeats and failing…
Captain Morgan sends England to the World Cup final (0:33) Captain Morgan sends England to the World Cup final (0:33) 5:09 PM ET Australia chose the worst possible time to put in their “worst performance” of the tournament, an eight-wicket thumping not only ending their world title defence but also consigning them to a first semi-final defeat at a World Cup. In days to come the defeat might sting less,…