Month: January 2020

How Matt Renshaw's spectacular catch was deemed legitimate

January 9, 2020
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Matt Renshaw celebrates after taking a difficult catch © Getty Images Matt Renshaw pulled off a spectacular, dynamic fielding effort on Thursday that took place beyond the boundary at the Gabba to get rid of Hobart Hurricanes opener Matthew Wade. Responding to a powerful lofted stroke from Wade, Renshaw ran to his left at wide long-on and caught the ball overhead with reverse-cupped hands a yard inside the rope, but…

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Jos Buttler escapes with fine after Vernon Philander 'knobhead' jibe

3:03 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jos Buttler has escaped serious punishment for his expletive-laden sledging towards Vernon Philander on the final day of England’s Test against South Africa at Newlands. Stump microphones picked up and broadcast Buttler calling Philander a “f***ing knobhead” after the bowler stood his ground rather than get out the way of a return throw from Joe Root at mid-off, before adding “get past that f***ing gut”,…

January 9, 2020
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'Good IPL, he puts himself into contention' – Ravi Shastri reiterates MS Dhoni still in the mix

1:13 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Experience, consistency, adapting to Australian conditions, explosive power, flamboyance. These are the criteria India head coach Ravi Shastri feels MS Dhoni can convert into currency to buy himself a ticket to the T20 World Cup, which will be held in October in Australia. Even as the MSK Prasad-led selection panel has been clear about moving on from Dhoni, questions about his future in the Indian…

January 9, 2020
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ECB announce low ticket prices for Hundred in hope of attendance boost

Glamorgan struggled to sell tickets for home games in the Vitality Blast last summer  12:01 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB have announced that the majority of adult tickets for the Hundred will be priced at £30 or less in an attempt to boost attendances, with under-16s tickets available at £5 each and children under five admitted for free. While there is some level of discrepancy depending on venue and…

January 9, 2020
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'Five-day Tests the way to go without a doubt' – Mickey Arthur

January 9, 2020
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© Getty Images Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur, who is part of the ICC cricket committee that will consider making four-day Tests mandatory as part of the World Test Championship from 2023, has shot down the proposal. Arthur has joined the likes of Virat Kohli, Ben Stokes and Vernon Philander in opposing four-day Test cricket, which is being considered by the ICC in order to free up a calendar that…

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'Would love to carry on as long as possible' – Chris Gayle

9:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Gayle‘s love for cricket is still going strong. Having taken a break from the game towards the end of 2019, he’s back in action with the Chattogram Challengers in the BPL, and he says he will continue playing T20s for a while yet. “A lot of people still want see Chris Gayle out there in the middle,” Gayle said during a media interaction in…

January 9, 2020
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Subplots galore as India, Sri Lanka meet for final T20I in Pune

January 9, 2020
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Navdeep Saini exults after going through Danushka Gunathilaka’s defence © BCCI Big Picture The only match of the T20I series has taught us a few things. The first is that India have their seam-bowling backups for the T20 World Cup fairly sorted. With Jasprit Bumrah not getting any wicket till his penultimate over in Indore, it was Navdeep Saini at the top and Shardul Thakur at the death, who kept…

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Renegades haven't given up the season at all – Dan Christian

7:05 AM GMT Alex Malcolm The winless Melbourne Renegades have not given up on their BBL title defence just yet, with stand-in captain Dan Christian believing that the fifth spot in the revamped finals series is still within reach with just seven games left. The Renegades have lost their first seven matches to sit last on the BBL table. Every other side has won at least three matches so far…

January 9, 2020
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'Clinical' Glenn Maxwell still in ODI frame – Aaron Finch

3:24 AM GMT Glenn Maxwell picked a typically opportune time to rattle the Melbourne Stars to a Big Bash League victory at the MCG, leaving his erstwhile Melbourne Renegades rival and now the Australia ODI captain Aaron Finch to explain why the allrounder wasn’t joining him on the plane to India. After a World Cup campaign that fell short of expectations, and a battle with mental-health issues that forced an…

January 9, 2020
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Heat batsmen a good bet against depleted Hurricanes attack

Play 05:40 January 9: Brisbane Heat v Hobart Hurricanes Our XI: Chris Lynn, Tom Banton, Matthew Wade, Max Bryant, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Ben Cutting, Qais Ahmed, Josh Lalor, Ben Laughlin, Scott Boland NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about a late injury (or other relevant) updates. D’Arcy Short heads to India for at least two weeks for the Hurricanes while Riley Meredith (side) and…

January 9, 2020
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