Fantasy Picks: Pack your team with bowlers (8:42) Ramiz Raja helps pick a fantasy team for the first England-Pakistan Test at Old Trafford on Wednesday (8:42) 7:07 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff England v Pakistan, 1st Test, Manchester Pro Tip This is the third Test being played in a row at Old Trafford, and we do expect some tough batting conditions. With two high-quality bowling sides, the batsmen may find runs…
6:26 PM IST IPL title rights holders Vivo are likely to pull out of this year’s tournament, ESPNcricinfo understands. The development follows a public outcry over the tournament’s association with Vivo, a Chinese company, following clashes at the India-China border in June. Neither the BCCI nor Vivo were available for comment on the issue. In June, the BCCI had said it would “review” the sponsorship deals concerning the IPL, but…
6:15 PM IST Ireland won the toss and chose to bowl vs England England will bat first in the third ODI after being sent into bat by Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie on a fresh pitch at the Ageas Bowl. Ireland’s top-order batting let them down in the first two matches, and Balbirnie said that he expected the pitch to stay flat throughout, informing his decision to chase. England are without…
5:52 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Somerset 296 (Davies 81, Brooks 72) and 290 for 8 dec (Abell 119, Green 54) beat Glamorgan 131 (C Overton 5-38) and 166 (Cooke 82, J Overton 4-48) by 289 runs Surrey-bound Jamie Overton marked what could prove his farewell appearance for Somerset with 5 for 48 to complete a 289-run Bob Willis Trophy victory over Glamorgan at the Cooper Associates County Ground Bristol….
3:25 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Rohit Sharma doesn’t like comparisons between different captains, even if such observations come from his own team-mates. Sharma was responding to Suresh Raina‘s views on the Super Over podcast, where he said, “He [Rohit] is the next MS Dhoni for the Indian cricket team.” “Yes, I heard about that comment from Suresh Raina,” Sharma said in a Twitter video he posted in reply to a…
Anjum Chopra, a regular face in Indian commentary boxes, is happy women players will be getting game time in the form of the T20 Challenge 1:53 PM IST Anjum Chopra, the former India women’s captain and current television commentator, believes that the BCCI has a plan for women’s cricket but wants the board to communicate its ideas more clearly. Speaking to PTI, Chopra said: “It’s not that the BCCI is…
12:07 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Yuvraj Singh has credited MS Dhoni for showing him “the real picture” over his international future when he was dropped from the ODI set-up for good in mid-2017, not long after travelling to the Caribbean where he struggled. Coming as it did soon after India’s runners-up finish at the Champions Trophy, where he managed just 105 runs in four innings, spelt the end of the…
West Indies were supposed to play three T20Is in Australia between October 4 and 9 10:41 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Australia’s home T20I series against West Indies has been postponed because of the Covid-19 situation, and that means the IPL now has an uninterrupted window – between September 19 and November 10 – as far as international cricket is concerned. West Indies were scheduled to play matches in Townsville, Cairns…
‘I never think about how many Tests I’ve played – 97, 98 or 99’ – Sharma (1:57) Ishant Sharma on how he would like to be part of a World Cup winning squad (1:57) 7:40 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ishant Sharma has played more Tests for India than any pace bowler bar Kapil Dev, and looks set to join him in the 100-Tests club if India’s tour of Australia, scheduled…
Trent Woodhill (seen here in his time with Pakistan) will continue his work as head coach of the Melbourne Stars’ WBBL team 8:49 AM IST Cricketing radical Trent Woodhill has quit as Melbourne Stars list manager to help Cricket Australia chart a way forward for the Big Bash League, in a mirror of his role advising the ECB on the launch of The Hundred. In a role assisting the head…