10:18 AM GMT South African cricket is searching for a silver lining after the dark clouds of a disappointing World Cup, a humbling tour of India, and, back home, an administration facing multiple legal battles and millions of rands of debt. Dale Steyn and JP Duminy might have spotted one such bright spot: next month’s Mzansi Super League (MSL), which, they believe, could prompt a revival for the flagging domestic…
10:05 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Hamish Rutherford, the New Zealand batsman, will return to Worcestershire as their overseas player for the whole of their 2020 campaign. Rutherford twice filled in as a replacement for Callum Ferguson in 2019, making a pair of 50-over hundreds – against Lancashire and Northants – and another on his Championship debut. He was flown into Sri Lanka by New Zealand in September for his first…
9:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mitchell Starc is set to miss the second T20I against Sri Lanka at the Gabba on Wednesday, having opted out of the contest to attend his brother Brandon’s wedding. Queensland’s Billy Stanlake has emerged as the frontrunner to replace him at his home venue. However, hot on his heels is New South Wales quick Sean Abbott, who joined the squad in Brisbane as a replacement…
8:42 AM GMT Five days after the truce between the BCB and the striking players, not everything seems to be right in Bangladesh cricket, especially when it comes to Shakib Al Hasan. After leading the strike, Shakib hasn’t turned up for the national team’s training sessions on two out of three days so far. The BCB hasn’t offered much by way of explanation for Shakib’s absence, except conveying coach Russell…
5:52 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI has moved a step closer to hosting a day-night Test, with a request going across to its counterparts at the BCB for the second and final Test of the upcoming India-Bangladesh series, scheduled to be played at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens, to be played under lights. ESPNcricinfo understands that the Indian board is waiting for the go-ahead from the BCB, but preparations are already…
7:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff UAE 154 for 5 (Usman 89*, Shahzad 27, Zafar 3-21) beat Canada 140 for 5 (Dhaliwal 41, Kirton 37*, Waheed 3-21) by five wickets Muhammad Usman‘s unbeaten 89 helped UAE qualify for the playoffs of the T20 World Cup qualifiers with a 14-run win over Canada but their victory wasn’t big enough to trump Ireland on the basis of net run rate. As a result,…
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12:53 AM GMT Almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong for Sri Lanka in Adelaide. And the one thing that went right for them, turned out badly. Lasith Malinga called correctly at the toss and put Australia in. Twenty overs later they had 233 against them. The chase was equally, if not more, one-sided as Sri Lanka limped to 9 for 99 to suffer their heaviest runs defeat…
11:44 PM GMT Whatever the letter of David Warner‘s lifetime ban from leadership positions in Australian cricket, he was never going to be left out of the team’s tactical thinking. Apart from the fact it is nigh on impossible to picture Warner sitting quietly in the corner minding his own business while the national team’s campaign for next year’s T20 World Cup is constructed, he is one of the squad’s…
7:00 AM GMT Netherlands 131 for 6 (ten Doeschate 51*, Watt 3-18) beat Scotland 130 for 8 (Cross 52) by four wickets A disciplined bowling display laid the platform for another convincing victory for Netherlands over Scotland by four wickets at Dubai International Stadium on Sunday afternoon. But needing to chase a target of 131 in 12.3 overs to surpass Papua New Guinea on the tournament’s net run-rate tiebreaker for…