7:07 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Eoin Morgan admitted that England’s 50-over players were “way off the mark” in their first ODI outing since the World Cup final in July, but said that he expected the new members of the team to learn a huge amount from their failure at Newlands, after Quinton de Kock and Temba Bavuma capitalised on a sub-par batting performance to secure a comprehensive seven-wicket win. South…
Rahul as captain, Kohli vice-captain is a top combination (5:53) Our fantasy picks for the first ODI between New Zealand and India (5:53) 3:12 PM GMT February 5: New Zealand v India, 1st ODI, Hamilton Our XI: KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Henry Nicholls, Tom Latham, Ross Taylor, Prithvi Shaw, Colin De Grandhomme, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ish Sodhi, Jasprit Bumrah NOTE: Kane Williamson is out of the first two ODIs,…
8:00 AM GMT India Under-19 176 for 0 (Jaiswal 105*, Saxena 59*) beat Pakistan Under-19 172 (Nazir 62, Haider 56, Mishra 3-28, Tyagi 2-32, Bishnoi 2-46) by 10 wickets Having been deflated with a collapse of 6 for 26, Pakistan Under-19 could pose no challenge to the India Under-19 opening pair of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Divyaansh Saxena, who shared an unbeaten stand of 176 to lead the defending champions to…
11:23 AM GMT Mushfiqur Rahim has been passed fit by the BCB’s chief physician Dr Debashis Roy, following a hamstring injury. He will be available for the domestic Bangladesh Cricket League match that begins on February 7, as he had opted out of touring Pakistan. Roy also said that Imrul Kayes has recovered from his calf injury. Both Kayes and Rahim undertook fitness tests on Tuesday. “Mushfiqur Rahim and Imrul…
Why Meg Lanning had to use a stranger’s swimming pool (1:04) The Australia women’s cricket captain speaks about using a stranger’s pool to help with her back pain (1:04) 11:24 AM GMT Australia captain Meg Lanning went to extraordinary lengths to ease her back condition in Canberra at the weekend. The problem flares up for Lanning from time to time and it happened towards the end of the match against…
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9:13 AM GMT Perth Scorchers 3 for 174 (Gibbs 71, M Marsh 41*) beat Melbourne Stars 8 for 163 by 11 runs Herschelle Gibbs‘ run-a-ball 71 underpinned a healthy Scorchers total, which was finished off by Mitchell Marsh’s 26-ball 41, featuring four sixes. In reply, the Stars were promisingly placed on 1 for 75 in the eighth over with Luke Wright and James Faulkner well set, but when they fell,…
7:40 AM GMT Glenn Maxwell insists he is better equipped to handle the short-pitched bowling he can expect to face on his return to Australia’s ODI team for the first time since last year’s World Cup, having refreshed his mind and renewed his outlook after taking a much-publicised mental health break at the start of the summer. Back in October, Maxwell was not “getting a lot of enjoyment out of…
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© Getty Images Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal “will definitely start” as openers in the three-ODI series in New Zealand, maybe as early as in the first game on Wednesday, while KL Rahul will continue to keep wicket and bat at No. 5 to give him more time to settle into his new role, Virat Kohli confirmed at a press conference a day before the game in Hamilton. Kohli was…