4:48 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The air quality in Canberra will be assessed for safety ahead of tonight’s BBL match between the Sydney Thunder and the Adelaide Strikers at Manuka Oval with Australia’s capital shrouded in haze from the extensive New South Wales bushfires. Conditions will be discussed an hour before play is due to begin at 5.10pm local time with a further inspection when the bat flip takes place…
Marsh a good punt for captaincy against former team (5:01) Here are our fantasy picks for the match between Perth Sorchers and Melbourne Renegades (5:01) Dec 20, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff December 21: Perth Scorchers v Melbourne Renegades in Perth Our XI: Sam Harper, Josh Inglis, Aaron Finch, Ashton Turner, Shaun Marsh, Cameron Bancroft, Daniel Christian, Mitchell Marsh, Chris Jordan, Kane Richardson, Harry Gurney NOTE: We might not always be able…
5:30 PM GMT It may not immediately look like it but the situation in South African cricket is steadily improving, so much so that captain Faf du Plessis is upbeat ahead of the four-Test series against England that starts on Boxing Day. On the third day of the team’s training camp in Pretoria, du Plessis acknowledged that even though his squad has not had the ideal length of preparation, the…
‘Have to get the anti-corruption system right’ – Ganguly (1:31) BCCI president on dealing with corruption in the KPL and other T20 leagues (1:31) 4:09 PM GMT Varun Shetty The Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has suspended five players, a coach, and two franchise owners in relation to the KPL corruption saga that was unearthed earlier this year. In a media release on Friday, KSCA said that CM Gautam, Abrar…
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3:08 PM GMT Shashank Kishore Aryaman Birla, the Madhya Pradesh batsman, has taken an “indefinite sabbatical from cricket”, citing “severe anxiety related to the sport for a while now”. Birla, 22, has been through a number of injury setbacks and hasn’t played competitive cricket since January this year. Rajasthan Royals, the IPL team he was part of for two seasons, released him in November. “I’ve felt trapped. I’ve pushed myself…
2:28 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The decade is almost over but South African cricket has rewound back to the start. Graeme Smith, Mark Boucher, Jacques Kallis and maybe even AB de Villiers are back and the same man who was acting CEO in 2012, Jacques Faul, is acting CEO in 2019. In-between, a lot has happened. Here, ESPNcricinfo explains the goings-on at Cricket South Africa in the last few weeks….
Shaheen Afridi mobbed by his teammates after picking up a wicket © Getty Images Pakistan 191 and 57 for 0 (Abid 32*, Masood 21*) trail Sri Lanka 271 (Chandimal 74, Dilruwan 48, Afridi 5-77. Abbas 4-55) by 23 runs On a day that threatened to mirror the script of its predecessor in the first hour, Sri Lanka dug in and clawed their way to, and then well past, Pakistan’s first…
12:11 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Lancashire have signed New Zealand wicketkeeper BJ Watling as an overseas player for the first nine Championship games of next season. Watling, 34, has been a prolific run-scorer in Test cricket in recent years. He compiled a maiden double-hundred against England last month, and has scored more runs as designated wicketkeeper than anyone else this decade. His time at Old Trafford will be Watling’s second…
Dale Steyn played two games for RCB in 2019 before a shoulder injury cut his season short 12:04 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Dale Steyn was lapped up right at the end of Thursday’s IPL auction, after going unsold three times, but he was “always part of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s plans”, according to Mike Hesson, their director of cricket. Steyn was picked at his base price of INR 2 crore by…