8:53 AM GMT The ECB has confirmed that Rory Burns will miss England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka after suffering ruptured ligaments in his left ankle playing football the day before the Cape Town Test. Burns underwent surgery in London on Monday and is expected to be out of action for four months. That means he will take no part in England’s two-Test tour of Sri Lanka in March but…
7:57 AM GMT Amid uncertainty over Bangladesh’s scheduled tour of Pakistan, it has emerged that the BCB has started taking consent from players to travel to the country. While this is standard government-mandated procedure for every overseas tour, this is the first concrete sign of preparations for this particular one. Equally significant is that a Test specialist confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that he had signed up to tour Pakistan; the BCB…
Langer proud of how Australia’s responded to bushfires (0:33) Justin Langer speaks about his pride at how Australia has banded together in response to the devastating bushfires. (0:33) 5:52 AM GMT It was Marnus Labuschagne’s summer, David Warner hit a triple century, Nathan Lyon had a career-best season and Pat Cummins remained the No. 1 bowler in the world, but when pressed to pick his highlight of Australia’s 5-0 home…
4:56 AM GMT For a team that only recently had become uncomfortably well acquainted with defeat, Australia’s 5-0 sweep of Pakistan and New Zealand was a breath of the sort of rarified air once occupied by the national team coach Justin Langer when he was an integral part of the (almost) all conquering XI led by Ricky Ponting. Certainly it has been a season in which the likes of Marnus…
3:29 AM GMT New Zealand are “hurting a lot” after being whitewashed in Australia, with coach Gary Stead admitting confidence among some key players will need to be resorted ahead of the next Test series against India in February. Defeats by 296 runs, 247 runs and 279 runs – in a series where they only passed 200 twice – condemned New Zealand to their worst ever result in Australia having…
3:10 AM GMT Srinath Sripath January 7: Melbourne Renegades v Perth Scorchers in Geelong Our XI: Aaron Finch, Sam Harper, Shaun Marsh, Liam Livingstone, Cameron Bancroft, Mitchell Marsh, Beau Webster, Chris Jordan, Matthew Kelly, Fawad Ahmed, Kane Richardson NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury (or other relevant) updates Captain: Shaun Marsh Arguably the most in-form batsman across the two sides, despite the…
© Getty Images Ross Taylor was overcome by emotion after becoming New Zealand’s highest Test run-scorer as he recalled a conversation at the start of his career with mentor Martin Crowe. Taylor moved to the top of the New Zealand list, overtaking Stephen Fleming’s tally of 7172, when he lofted Nathan Lyon down the ground on the fourth day of the SCG Test. He fell in the next over, bowled…
7:03 PM GMT The Foreshore Freeway Bridge was designed to cut through the centre of Cape Town, linking the eastern and western suburbs of the city. But in 1977 construction work stopped. The bridge was never completed and instead of joining the roads, it ends in a couple of precipices; a real road to nowhere, complete with tarmac and traffic markings, hanging eerily over the city. It’s used regularly in…
5:50 PM GMT Until all is said and done on Tuesday, whatever it is that may be said and done, it’s difficult to say anything definitive about this South African batting performance. They might go on to score more than 300 for only the fifth time in 18 innings since January 2018, or they might not. They might have their first centurion of the new decade, or they might not….
Fantasy Picks – Expect a run-fest at Indore, make Kohli captain (7:02) Here are our fantasy picks for the second T20I between India and Sri Lanka at Indore (7:02) 5:21 PM GMT Sreshth Shah January 7: India v Sri Lanka – 2nd T20I in Indore Our XI: Kusal Perera, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Avishka Fernando, Oshada Fernando, Isuru Udana, Dasun Shanaka, Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Saini NOTE:…