Month: August 2019

3:00 AM ET Australians 77 for 0 (Harris 52*, Khawaja 18*) trail Derbyshire 172 (du Plooy 86, Neser 3-31, Starc 3-46) by 95 runs Not even present for the tour game at Worcester, Australia’s coach Justin Langer underlined the impending pointy end of this Ashes series by intently watching day one of the encounter with Derbyshire from behind the wicket, accompanying the selection chairman Trevor Hohns for long segments of…

1:10 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Two months after announcing his retirement amid high drama, Ambati Rayudu had made a giant U-turn. According to the Hindu, the 33-year old batsman has sent an email to the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) saying his decision to retire was an “emotional one” and that he was “willing to play in all formats of the game” again. On their part, the HCA want Rayudu to…

11:33 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hardik Pandya is back in India’s 15-man T20I squad that will play three matches against South Africa starting September 15. His addition, in place of fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar, is the only change India have made from the T20I squad that won the series against West Indies. MS Dhoni continues to be absent from the India T20I squad, and so does Jasprit Bumrah. Bhuvneshwar’s absence…

Ravindra Jadeja smashed a stunning half century in the World Cup semi-final last month  10:38 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India men’s allrounder Ravindra Jadeja and women’s wristspinner Poonam Yadav were presented with the Arjuna Award, an honour bestowed by the Indian government to recognise outstanding individual achievement in sports. The pair received their awards from the president of the country, on Thursday, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi. Jadeja,…

9:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Peter Trego will leave Somerset at the end of the season, after the club decided not to renew his contract. Trego signed a white-ball-only deal for the 2019 season, after losing his regular place in the Championship side. He scored 389 runs at 35.36 in the club’s victorious Royal London Cup campaign, but was dropped from the T20 side after struggling against Rashid Khan in…

9:15 AM ET Robin Uthappa has been named captain of Kerala’s limited-overs squads for the upcoming season. Uthappa, who had a shortened season with Saurashtra last year owing to injuries, is in his first season as a professional for Kerala. The 33-year-old last captained in recognised cricket in 2014, when he led a touring India A side in a quadrangular one-day series in Australia. He also captained Karnataka sporadically between…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 327 for 6 (Dube 79*, Axar 60*, Fortuin 2-40) beat South Africa A 258 all out (Hendricks 110, Klaasen 58, Chahal 5-47) by 69 runs Reeza Hendricks‘ 110 was not good enough for South Africa A as India A trumped the visitors in the first one-dayer by 69 runs. Allrounders Shivam Dube and Axar Patel struck quickfire fifties to rescue the hosts from…

7:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The DDCA has re-signed former Delhi batsman KP Bhaskar as head coach of the senior team for the 2019-20 season. Bhaskar, a veteran of 95 first-class matches, helmed debutants Uttarakhand to the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals in the previous season. Rajkumar Sharma has been named the bowling coach. Sharma, an off-spinning allrounder, played nine first-class matches for Delhi but is famously remembered for being Virat Kohli’s…