Kemar Roach reacts with relief after getting Mayank Agarwal out lbw © Getty Images Two balls. Two edges. Two wicket-keeper catches. Kemar Roach had taken out struggling opener KL Rahul for 6 and Indian captain Virat Kohli for his fourth ever Test duck. And when Ajinkya Rahane edges the hat-trick ball towards the stumps, Roach is sure the ball is going to hit the stumps. But it doesn’t. It misses…
Aug 31, 2019 A back of a length ball darting into the batsmen’s chest. A mean bouncer that sent the neck guard of the helmet flying. A rapid delivery nearly brushing the outside half of the off stump. Inswingers, outswingers, bouncers – they have all come naturally to Jasprit Bumrah on his way to decimating the West Indies batting-line up. When asked about this uncanny ability of his, the fast…
3:38 PM ET Matt Roller at Hove Heather Knight paid credit to her Western Storm side’s batting depth after Deepti Sharma‘s crucial unbeaten 39 from 22 balls from No. 6 lifted them over the line in a nail-biting run chase against Southern Vipers at Hove. Sharma came in with Storm needing 70 off 7.3 overs after prolific openers Smriti Mandhana and Rachel Priest had fallen early, but struck seven boundaries…
3:00 AM ET Matt Roller at Hove Western Storm 174 for 4 (Knight 78*, Sharma 39*) beat Southern Vipers 172 for 7 (Wyatt 73) by six wickets An unbeaten 78 from England captain Heather Knight saw Western Storm win their second and final Kia Super League title in a thrilling run chase at Hove. Southern Vipers posted an imposing 172 for 7 after winning the toss, led by a 42-ball…
3:00 AM ET Innings West Indies 117 (Hetmyer 34, Bumrah 6-27, Shami 2-34) trail India 416 by 299 runs India took just over an hour to end West Indies’ innings on the third day, with Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja splitting the last three wickets between them. West Indies were bowled out for 117, 299 behind India’s 416, but with a little over eight sessions to go in…
11:48 AM ET Shashank Kishore Wriddhiman Saha, Kuldeep Yadav and Umesh Yadav will slot back in with the India A squad following their tour of the Caribbean with the national side. Saha will lead in the second four-day fixture against South Africa A in Mysore, of which Umesh and Kuldeep are a part of. Shubman Gill will lead in the first four-dayer starting September 10 in Wayanad, which comprises the…
11:02 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson has been ruled out of the ongoing T20 series against Sri Lanka with a fractured thumb. Ferguson sustained the injury at training on Friday, while fielding. X-rays revealed a “small fracture to the middle joint”, according to an official release. “It’s a shame for Lockie to have to miss this series, especially coming off the back of such an…
10:08 AM ET Nick Webb has emerged as the front-runner to take over from Shankar Basu as India’s strength and conditioning coach. Luke Woodhouse and S Rajnikanth are the other two shortlisted by a BCCI panel comprising the senior selection committee and fitness expert and former Bengal batsman Ranadeep Moitra. The shortlists were made after all candidates were put through theory and practical assessments at the National Cricket Academy (NCA)…
Suzie Bates pulls one away for a four © Nathan Stirk / Stringer Southern Vipers 145 for 5 (Bates 37) beat Loughborough Lightning 143 (Bates 3-22) by five wickets Southern Vipers overcame a mid-innings wobble to edge past Loughborough Lightning and advance to the final of the Kia Super League in a nerve-jangling run chase at Hove. Suzie Bates and Danni Wyatt had started the Vipers’ chase of 144 with…
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka chose to bat in the first T20 in Pallekele – the start slightly delayed due to rain. The hosts will field offspinner Akila Dananjaya, despite his action being currently under suspicion by the ICC. Making his T20 international debut, meanwhile, is legspinning allrounder Wanindu Hasaranga. Kasun Rajitha, Isuru Udana and captain Lasith Malinga make up the frontline pace options, with seam-bowling allrounder Dasun Shanaka also…