Month: February 2020

Fantasy Picks: More Indians, but Chamari Atapattu is your captain (7:47) With Snehal Pradhan’s help, we pick the fantasy XI for the India v Sri Lanka T20 World Cup game (7:47) 1:14 PM GMT ESPN Staff February 29: India v Sri Lanka at the Junction Oval, Melbourne Our XI: Anushka Sanjeewani, Harmanpreet Kaur, Shafali Verma, Chamari Atapattu, Smriti Mandhana, Shashikala Siriwardene, Taniya Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Udeshika Prabodhani, Shikha Pandey, Poonam…

11:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mark Wood’s injury-plagued career has suffered another massive set-back, with the news that he will miss England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka after the re-occurrence of a left side strain. Wood was England’s stand-out seamer on the recent tour of South Africa, claiming 12 wickets in his two appearances at Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. He was named Man of the Match for his career-best haul…

Fantasy Picks: Bank on NZ allrounders to get you points (4:33) We help you pick your fantasy team for the upcoming game between New Zealand and Bangladesh in ICC Women’s World T20 (4:33) 11:52 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff February 29: Bangladesh v New Zealand at the Junction Oval, Melbourne Our XI: Rachel Priest, Nigar Sultana, Maddy Green, Fargana Hoque, Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates, Amelia Kerr, Salma Khatun, Rumana Ahmed, Rosemary…

Fantasy picks: Bank on pace in Christchurch  (4:38) We recommend you to pick Wagner as captain and Williamson was vice-captain (4:38) 11:26 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff February 29: 2nd Test – New Zealand v India, Christchurch Our XI: Mayank Agarwal, Tom Latham, Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson, Rishabh Pant, Colin de Grandhomme, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Neil Wagner, Tim Southee, Trent Boult Captain: Neil Wagner Wagner will want to make up…

11:11 AM GMT England 158 for 7 (Knight 62, Aiman Anwer 3-30) beat Pakistan 116 (Shrubsole 3-25, Glenn 3-15) by 42 runs England took a stride towards qualification from Group B of the Women’s T20 World Cup by thrashing Pakistan in Canberra. After surprisingly being inserted by Pakistan’s skipper Bismah Maroof, England overcame an early stutter thanks primarily to captain Heather Knight, who continued her fine form in this tournament…

10:43 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Adam Zampa is four years old in international cricket, and is Australia’s first-choice white-ball spinner, but he still doesn’t feel “comfortable” at this level. Although that may not necessarily be a bad thing. “Even now I don’t feel comfortable, which is probably a good thing to be honest – same as any professional cricketer at this level,” Zampa said after Australia won the Cape Town…

10:25 AM GMT Amid all the carnage left in the wake of the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, the city also lost its primary cricket venue, Lancaster Park. With time, the boutique Hagley Oval, located within the approximately 165-hectare Hagley Park, became the city’s new Test centre. The two venues can’t be any more dissimilar in character. Lancaster Park was a stadium where Hagley Oval is clearly a ground, with…

9:17 AM GMT Mushfiqur Rahim has stressed that he would not change his mind about skipping the tour of Pakistan, despite BCB president Nazmul Hassan’s tough stance on the matter, where he said that Mushfiqur was “contract-bound” to tour with the rest of the team. “I made my stance clear about Pakistan, and they [BCB] has also accepted it,” Mushfiqur told NTV news channel. “They should have shown me respect…

8:07 AM GMT India have lost their last four international games on their tour of New Zealand, following up a 3-0 defeat in the ODI series with a 10-wicket loss in the first Test in Wellington, which snapped a seven-match winning streak in the format. Their coach Ravi Shastri, however, isn’t perturbed. “I wouldn’t judge ODI and Test cricket [together], they are totally different things,” he said on the eve…