Month: January 2020

Fantasy Picks – Make Warner your captain (6:20) Here’s how you go about putting together your fantasy team for the second India-Australia ODI (6:20) 3:17 AM GMT Hemant Brar India v Australia in Rajkot Our XI: Aaron Finch, David Warner, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins, Ashton Agar, Mitchell Starc, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off…

2:48 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff As the BBL group stage enters the final weeks of the race for the knockouts this page will keep you updated with all the snippets of news from the tournament January 17 Lyon named in Sydney Sixers squad Nathan Lyon is closing in on a return from the finger injury he suffered in the final Test against New Zealand having been named in the Sydney…

7:22 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Lisa Keightley believes her new England team can be a cool, confident outfit capable of reaching the Women’s T20 World Cup final in less than two months’ time. Keightley, the first woman to be appointed full-time head coach of the England Women’s team, has had mere weeks in the role, but already she is preparing the side for a high-pressure tournament in her native Australia,…

5:35 PM GMT If you want to guess how much goes on in Port Elizabeth, use today’s play as your most revealing clue. With 224 runs scored and four wickets taken, you will conclude that not that much happened and you would not be wrong, on the field and off it. This is the sleepiest of the four venues for this series, a place where life seems simpler. There’s one…

8:00 AM GMT England 224 for 4 (Crawley 44) v South Africa Test cricket can do funny things to your perception of time, and you can’t have the drama of fifth-day finishes such as the Cape Town Test without some longueurs in between. However, by any measure this was slow going as the series resumed in Port Elizabeth, with England puttering along in attritional conditions to give themselves a platform…

3:31 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Temba Bavuma pitched his case for Test selection with a career-best first-class score of 180 on Thursday, before suggesting that he had grabbed his opportunity to spend time in the middle “with both hands”. Faced with an improbable fourth-innings target of 430, Bavuma resumed his innings on 41 after Lions were reduced to 98 for 4 overnight in their four-day game against Dolphins. He reached…

2:10 PM GMT Moeen Ali has claimed he is “refreshed and ready to go” after taking a break from international cricket, but says he has yet to make a decision on whether he will return to Test cricket for England’s tour of Sri Lanka in March. Moeen, who asked for a break from Test cricket after being dropped following the first Ashes Test, has now admitted he was suffering from…