Sep 1, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has called Jasprit Bumrah “the most complete bowler in world cricket”. Those words were understandable, coming at the end of a Test series in which he picked up 13 wickets in two Tests at the average of 9.23. “There is not much you can say about Jasprit, the way he has been bowling,” Kohli said in his post-match press conference after India completed…
10:39 PM ET Usman Khawaja has been the batsman to make way for Steven Smith’s return in the fourth Test at Old Trafford, bringing another halt to a Test career that has not hit the heights that many had expected. Here’s a look back at the story so far January 2011: Test debut Khawaja’s debut, in the final Test of the 2010-11 Ashes, came with considerable expectation and given his…
10:21 PM ET Kemar Roach’s almost hat-trick. Jason Holder‘s five-for. Roston Chase’s four wickets in 38 overs. A flicker of momentum, a glimmer of greatness here and there. That’s all West Indies had to show over the last month, in the series against India, as they suffered 3-0 and 2-0 defeats in the T20Is and ODIs, and their first Test series loss at home in two years. It’s easy to…
6:28 PM ET Australia’s selectors have dropped their established No. 3 Usman Khawaja and also spelled James Pattinson for the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford, signalling a change in approach following a narrow defeat at Headingley. Khawaja’s omission meets the desire of selection chairman Trevor Hohns to address the abundance of left-handers at the top of the order, making it likely that Marnus Labuschagne will take over at first…
3:55 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India’s win against West Indies in the second Test not only gave them a 2-0 series sweep and the top spot on the World Test Championship table, but was also their 28th Test victory under Virat Kohli, making him the winning-est Indian Test captain, going past MS Dhoni’s 27. Kohli, however, said that the captaincy achievement was just a by-product of the team, and the…
2:34 PM ET James Anderson has “a lot of cricket left in him,” according to his long-term new-ball partner, Stuart Broad. Anderson was forced to admit defeat in his attempt to battle back from a calf injury to play in the final two Tests of the Ashes series. But despite his age – Anderson is now 37 – and the fact the injury has lingered longer than most expected, Broad…
3:00 AM ET West Indies 117 and 145 for 4 (Brooks 36*, Blackwood 33*) need 323 runs to beat India 416 and 168 for 4 declared A chase of 468 was always going to need a miracle, but West Indies offered hope of a fight at least with a bright start on the fourth morning of the second and final Test, on either side of a middle-session stumble. Ishant Sharma…
12:15 PM ET Stuart Broad is excited to see the resumption of the “awesome” competition between Steve Smith and Jofra Archer when the Ashes resumes in Manchester on Wednesday. While Broad welcomed the return of Smith after the worrying injury he sustained at Lord’s, he warned that Test cricket was a “brutal sport” and there would be no respite in England’s attempt to discomfort him. Smith was obliged to miss…
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11:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Darren Bravo has retired hurt on 23 on the fourth morning of the Jamaica Test between West Indies and India. Bravo walked off the field in the fourth over of the day, having just driven Jasprit Bumrah to the cover boundary. Bravo had taken a blow to the helmet in the last over of day three, off a bouncer from Bumrah. The ball had struck…