8:17 AM ET Bangladesh have left out Mustafizur Rahman from the 15-man squad that will take on Afghanistan in the one-off Test in Chattogram starting next Thursday. Apart from Mustafizur, Tamim Iqbal was also missing from the squad after he was granted a leave by the BCB earlier this month. Squad for one-off Test: Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Soumya Sarkar, Shadman Islam, Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Liton Das, Mahmudullah, Mohammad…
8:11 AM ET Shashank Kishore Abhimanyu Easwaran‘s career graph continues to rise. Already a regular opener with India A who is knocking on the doors of the national team, the 23-year-old Bengal player has now been handed the captaincy of the state team for the 2019-20 season across formats. It’s a move that has made both Arun Lal, the team mentor, and Manoj Tiwary, the man he replaced, happy and…
6:23 AM ET Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 After a whopping 126 games over six weeks, the Vitality Blast’s group stage will finally draw to a close on Friday night. The qualification picture is crystal clear in the North Group, with the only complication regarding which team will join Lancashire in the top two and earn themselves a home quarter-final….
Isuru Udana: left-arm seamer, explosive surprise package down the batting order 5:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka allrounder Isuru Udana has replaced David Willey as Paarl Rocks’ international marquee player for the second edition of the Mzansi Super League. Willey has been ruled out due to the need to manage his workload, according to a statement from Cricket South Africa. Udana will be familiar to a South African audience,…
3:00 AM ET Calum Trenaman Gloucestershire 180 for 3 (Klinger 102*) beat Kent 175 for 8 (du Plessis 60, Billings 55, Higgins 3-36) by five runs The ‘Ben Stokes Effect’ was there for all to see at a packed Canterbury on Thursday night as the crowd to see Kent play Gloucestershire far exceeded the number of seats available, leaving standing room only. None were let down as veteran Michael Klinger…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Hampshire 155 for 2 (Vince 66*, Donald 51) beat Middlesex 153 for 5 (de Villiers 52*) by eight wickets Aneurin Donald thrashed his first Vitality Blast fifty for Hampshire to keep their quarter-final hopes alive by beating Middlesex by eight wickets. Donald, who joined from Glamorgan last year, had previously scored 48 and 44 in the Blast but finally reached the landmark score to…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Yorkshire 187 for 7 (Kohler-Cadmore 51, Lyth 50) xxx Northamptonshire 107 (Sole 41*, Willey 4-18) by 80 runs Yorkshire lifted themselves off bottom spot in the North Group with a landslide 80-run victory over Northamptonshire in a Vitality Blast dead rubber at Headingley, with ex-Steelback David Willey starring with four new-ball wickets. Both sides went into their penultimate fixture of 2019 with no chance…
3:00 AM ET Matt Roller at The Oval Essex 186 for 4 (Bopara 70*, ten Doeschate 55*) beat Surrey 167 (Clark 60, Porter 4-38) by 19 runs An unbroken stand of 117 in 10.4 overs between Ravi Bopara and Ryan ten Doeschate was enough to keep Essex’s hopes of qualification alive at The Oval and dumped Surrey out at the group stage for the fourth time in five years. On…
West Indies v India, 2nd Test, Jamaica August 29, 2019 Aishwarya Kumar at Sabina Park Ajinkya Rahane drives down the ground © Getty Images Ajinkya Rahane lifted his bat high and looked up into the sky, closing his eyes for a brief moment – his first Test century in two years and 17 matches. The India vice-captain is stoic – sometimes unbelievably so – but on that day in North…
Steven Smith returned after missing the Headingley Test with a delayed concussion © Getty Images Australia have had plenty of time to address but also rationalise the madness of their final hour at Headingley, resulting in conclusions such as the evident fallibility of Ben Stokes against Nathan Lyon, the impending return of Steven Smith and the fact that only one of the final two Tests need end in victory for…