12:52 PM GMT Shashank Kishore Deepak Chahar has come a long way since the memorable 8 for 10 on Ranji Trophy debut for Rajasthan in 2010-11. For all his first-class experience, it was the IPL and his powerplay spells during Chennai Super Kings’ victory title-winning run in 2018 that shot him into the limelight. His ability to swing the new ball made him MS Dhoni’s calling card in the powerplay….
12:21 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Scotland has announced fixtures against New Zealand and Australia for the home summer of 2020. New Zealand will play an ODI and a T20I ahead of their trip to Ireland, while Australia will arrive for a T20I before travelling on to England. New Zealand had been due to visit for an ODI on June 26, but have changed their itinerary and will be in…
12:02 PM GMT There’s an air of serenity around Shai Hope. In a West Indies side filled with six-hitters, the 26-year-old wicketkeeper-opener constructs his innings with singles and doubles, 1990s-style, and lets the batsman at the other end enjoy most of the spotlight. He has been in tremendous form in ODI cricket, averaging nearly 64 in 42 innings since the start of 2018, but this strike-rate in this period has…
11:56 AM GMT Justice (retd) DK Jain, the BCCI’s ethics officer, has asked Kapil Dev and Anshuman Gaekwad to appear before him for a hearing about their conflict of interest charges. The complaint had been filed in August by Sanjeev Gupta, a life member of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association. ESPNcricinfo understands that Kapil’s hearing is scheduled for December 27 and Gaekwad’s a day later. Both Kapil, the former India…
Sri Lanka’s new head coach Mickey Arthur at a press conference in Colombo © AFP On the last day in Rawalpindi, the partnership between Abid Ali and Babar Azam skipped along at 4.2 runs an over. Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur would like his bowlers to contain the Pakistan batsmen a little better in the second Test in Karachi. Rawalpindi’s surface offered little to the bowlers on the final day,…
Keepers in arms – Shai Hope and Rishabh Pant © BCCI Big picture It’s been over 15 years since India last lost two consecutive bilateral ODI series at home. They have also never lost five straight ODIs in India. But both those things may happen if they lose to West Indies in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday – they lost the last three matches to concede the series against Australia 3-2 in…
8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England 154 for 4 (Jones 53) beat Pakistan 125 (Maroof 65, Ecclestone 3-21) by 29 runs Amy Jones‘ half-century set up England for a comfortable win in the first T20I at Kinrara Oval, as Pakistan were dismissed for 125 despite a valiant innings from captain Bismah Maroof. Maroof was last woman out after making 60 from 58 balls, as Pakistan fell 29 runs short with…
8:42 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ellyse Perry, the premier allrounder in women’s cricket, has won two of the three top annual ICC awards for 2019: the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for women’s cricketer of the year and its ODI equivalent. Alyssa Healy, meanwhile, has taken home the Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year award for the second year in a row. In a sweep by Australian cricketers, Meg Lanning was named…
8:22 AM GMT AB de Villiers is already talking to key figures in South African cricket to explore the possibility of coming out of retirement for next year’s T20 World Cup, captain Faf du Plessis has confirmed. Two days after new head coach Mark Boucher said he would be open to asking de Villiers to play in the event, du Plessis said that conversations on the subject have been ongoing…
5:33 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Basil Butcher, the stylish Guyana and West Indies batsman of the 1950s and 1960s, died on Monday in Florida following a long illness aged 86. He played 44 Tests between 1958 and 1969, scoring 3104 runs at an average of 43.11, and was named one of Wisden’s Cricketers of the Year in 1970. Of his seven Test hundreds, Butcher is best remembered for his second-innings…