Fantasy Pick | Go with Jadeja as one of your top picks (6:29) Here are our fantasy picks for the fourth T20I between New Zealand and India (6:29) 2:53 AM GMT Srinath Sripath January 31: New Zealand v India, 4th T20I, Wellington Our XI: KL Rahul (wk), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (capt), Martin Guptill, Shreyas Iyer, Tim Seifert, Kane Williamson, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Tim Southee NOTE: We…
1:05 AM GMT January 31: BBL Qualifier – Melbourne Stars v Sydney Sixers, Melbourne Our XI: Josh Phillippe, Marcus Stoinis, Steven Smith, Daniel Hughes, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriques, Adam Zampa, Ben Dwarshius, Josh Hazlewood, Haris Rauf NOTE: For the Stars, Sandeep Lamichhane has left for international duty and Hilton Cartwright is out with a broken finger. For the Sixers, Tom Curran has returned to national duty. Captain: Marcus…
12:51 AM GMT He has been compared to Michael Bevan. There are growing calls for him to be given a spot in Australia’s T20I middle order. But Jonathan Wells is focused on the here and now, continuing his prolific form in “one of the toughest roles” in T20 cricket and helping the Adelaide Strikers towards the Big Bash final. His top line numbers are outstanding: 444 runs in the regular…
The crowd at the Melbourne Renegades verses Adelaide Strikers match © Getty Images A revamped and expanded finals series is the last hope for broadcasters to wring some quantifiable upside out of this summer’s Big Bash League, after its traditional television audience declined for the fifth summer in a row. While the BBL remains among the most watched domestic leagues in Australian sport alongside the AFL and NRL, its audiences…
9:41 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Tom Banton says he has ambitions to play Test cricket, but is not about to be swayed by Michael Vaughan’s assertion that he needs to ditch his Indian Premier League contract to take part in the County Championship with Somerset. Speaking on the eve of England’s first warm-up match on the white-ball leg of their tour of South Africa, Banton, 21, admitted he is still…
5:23 PM GMT South Africa’s Under-19 program could be in line for an overhaul after the team’s failure to progress out of the quarter-finals at the age-group World Cup, which they are hosting. South Africa advanced second from their group, following defeat in the opening match to Afghanistan. The team also came into the tournament on the back of a poor 2019, in which they won just three out of…
Saqib Mahmood worked closely with Darren Gough on England’s tour of New Zealand © Gareth Copley/Getty Images Saqib Mahmood, the young England seamer, would “look forward” to using a Kookaburra ball in County Championship fixtures if a round of games with the ball was introduced. Mahmood, who made his T20I debut on England’s New Zealand tour at the end of last year and was an unused member of the Test…
4:09 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Canada 300 for 7 (Manohar 101*, Walia 40*, Dobell 2-52) beat Japan 118 (Date 59, Akhil Kumar 6-46) by 182 runsScorecard Opening batsman Neel Date scored Japan’s first fifty at the World Cup, but seamer Akhil Kumar picked up 6 for 46, including the wicket of the half-centurion, to help Canada clinch their 13th place play-off semi-final. Kumar’s spell triggered a terminal collapse as Japan…
8:00 AM GMT Bangladesh Under-19s 261 for 5 (Tanzid 80, Shahadat 74, Hridoy 51, Moletsane 2-41) beat South Africa Under-19s 157 (Beaufort 60, Rakibul 5-19) by 104 runs South Africa were caught napping by spin again in the quarter-final, as left-arm spinner Rakibul Hasan took a five-wicket haul to knock the hosts out of the 2020 U-19 World Cup. Bangladesh will now face New Zealand in the semi-final, on February…
1:56 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Peshawar Zalmi have roped in Hashim Amla as a batting mentor for the upcoming edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The acquisition was announced on Twitter by the owner of the franchise, Javed Afridi. “His gracious presence in the PSL 5 festivity will not only adorn the Zalmi dugout but also inspire and craft the cricket skills of the emerging players in the squad,”…