Month: February 2020

Fantasy Pick: England players could make a big impact (5:43) Dawid Malan, Jason Roy and Tymal Mills could fetch you vital points (5:43) 1:08 PM GMT Rohit Balaji February 27: Islamabad United vs Quetta Gladiators in Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi Our XI: Jason Roy, Luke Ronchi, Dawid Malan, Colin Munro, Ahmed Shehzad, Azam Khan, Shadab Khan, Amad Butt, Tymal Mills, Mohammad Hasnain, Muhammad Musa Captain: Luke Ronchi Ronchi has been…

12:15 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket has come a long way since Paul Farbrace, looking to make his way in the game, took a job picking celery as a way to make ends meet. Farbrace was obliged to work as a postman, customs officer and teacher, too. When he signed for Kent in 1986, he was paid £2,300 a season – contracts only lasted for six months in those days…

11:55 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Allrounder Chamu Chibhabha, who last played white-ball cricket for Zimbabwe in 2018, has been named captain of both the ODI and T20I sides for the ongoing Bangladesh tour. Sean Williams, the regular long-format captain who had missed the one-off Test due to the birth of his daughter, has returned to the side, but not as captain. Chamu Chibhabha (capt), Sikandar Raza, Craig Ervine, Tinashe Kamunhukamwe,…

Play 04:56 February 27: Australia vs Bangladesh at the Manuka Oval, Canberra Our XI: Alyssa Healy, Nigar Sultana, Ashleigh Gardner, Meg Lanning, Murshida Khatun, Rachael Haynes, Salma Khatun, Ellyse Perry, Panna Ghosh, Jess Jonassen, Megan Schutt Captain: Alyssa Healy Healy has had a horrid time in recent T20Is. She has 6 single-digit scores in her last 7 games in the format. But, she started off the World Cup with a…

11:20 AM GMT Keshav Maharaj, South Africa’s premier Test spinner, has been included in the ODI squad to face Australia in a three-match series which starts on Saturday. Maharaj, who has four ODI caps to his name, is currently the joint-leading wicket-taker in the domestic one-day competition and will be pushing Tabraiz Shamsi for a spot from in the white-ball XI. Maharaj last played ODI cricket in 2018, when he…

10:01 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB have announced the appointment of David Court as player identification lead, filling the vacancy left by Mo Bobat’s promotion to the role of performance director in October. Court, who will work closely with Bobat and with Ed Smith’s selection panel, has spent the last four years at the FA as performance education lead, having previously worked for the ECB as a regional performance…

The top spot among Test batsmen has been a Steven Smith v Virat Kohli contest for a while  9:58 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli‘s match aggregate of 21 runs in the Wellington Test against New Zealand, which went the way of the home team by 10 wickets, has allowed Steven Smith to reclaim the top spot in the Test rankings for batsmen, the Australian getting to No. 1 for…

9:07 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff South Australia 207 (Copeland 5-63) & 1 for 40 need 363 more runs to beat New South Wales 373 & 2 for 236 dec (Hughes 136) by 363 runs Scorecard Trent Copeland took his 300th Sheffield Shield wicket for New South Wales and claimed his 20th five-wicket haul in first-class cricket while Daniel Hughes made his second century of the match leave South Australia with…