8:00 AM GMT Sydney Sixers 5 for 116 (Philippe 52, Silk 27*) beat Melbourne Stars 6 for 97 (Larkin 38*, Lyon 2-19) by 19 runs The rain clouds parted in the nick of time and the Sydney Sixers took the Big Bash title without it being handed to them in a washout courtesy of a handsome 19-run victory over the Melbourne Stars in a 12-over contest which meant the Stars’…
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11:59 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff India’s 22-run defeat against New Zealand in the second ODI meant they had lost a bilateral series in any format for the first time since March 2019, when Australia beat India 3-2 in ODIs. From that loss, India had gone 12 bilateral series across formats, winning 11 and drawing one. Despite the reverse, captain Virat Kohli said there were lots of positives for India to…
7:45 AM GMT Quinton de Kock has been named captain of the South Africa men’s T20I squad, replacing Faf du Plessis, who doesn’t feature in the 16-member squad for the three-match series against England at home from February 16 to 20. There was, however, a return for Dale Steyn, who last played a T20I in March 2019 but was in action for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League…
8:00 AM GMT Pakistan 95 for 2 (Masood 54*, Babar 0*, Jayed 2-22) trail Bangladesh 233 (Mithun 63, Afridi 4-53) by 138 runs Shan Masood did everything Najmul Hossain Shanto said he was disappointed Bangladesh didn’t as Pakistan began to take control on the second morning in Rawalpindi. Once he got himself in on what was, in truth, a harmless surface under bright sunshine, he refused to give his wicket…
Feb 6, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand A 276 for 5 (Phillips 65, Cleaver 46*, Khan 2-57, Siraj 2-58) v India A Dane Cleaver once again proved a thorn in India A’s side, scoring a dogged, unbeaten 46 to make sure honours were even at the end of day one of the second four-day fixture in Lincoln. After choosing to bat, New Zealand A were in danger of falling away…
8:00 AM GMT India Women 3 for 177 (Mandhana 55, Verma 49, Rodrigues 30) beat Australia Women 5 for 173 (Gardner 93, Lanning 37, Deepti 2-27) by seven wickets A stunning innings by the 16-year-old wunderkind Shafali Verma launched India Women on the way to a dramatic victory over the T20 World Cup favourites Australia. In doing so they announced their genuine candidacy for the global tournament and also ensured…
8:00 AM GMT Toss India chose to bowl v New Zealand India may be facing a must-win game in Auckland but that didn’t make them budge from resting a key strike-bowler. Mohammed Shami was given a day off with Virat Kohli making specific mention that he wanted the 29-year old seamer to be fresh for the Test series later on the tour. In his absence, Navdeep Saini gets a look…
Fantasy Pick | Pick big-hitting top-order batsmen (7:13) Here are our fantasy picks for the BBL final between the Sydney Sixers and the Melbourne Stars (7:13) 12:50 AM GMT Sruthi Ravindranath February 8: BBL Final – Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Stars, Melbourne Our XI: Josh Philippe, Marcus Stoinis, Steven Smith, Nick Larkin, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Handscomb, Sean Abbott, Adam Zampa, Ben Dwarshuis, Haris Rauf, Steve O’Keefe NOTE: We might not…
7:25 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Nasir Jamshed, the former Pakistan batsman, has been sentenced to 17 months in prison at Manchester Crown Court, after pleading guilty in December to a conspiracy to bribe fellow cricketers in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Jamshed, 33, was given a ten-year ban by the PCB in August 2018, and had been anticipating a custodial sentence after changing his plea on the opening day of…