Month: September 2020

Manjrekar: Natarajan showed why Sunrisers persisted with him (2:12) Sanjay Manjrekar and Aakash Chopra on the usefulness of the classical yorker (2:12) 7:48 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff After winning their first two games in Dubai, the Delhi Capitals suffered their first defeat in IPL 2020, losing to the Sunrisers Hyderabad by 15 runs in Abu Dhabi. Shreyas Iyer, the Capitals’ captain, said that the lack of game-time at a new…

Play 01:58 Chopra: Williamson like Rahul Dravid of old Sunrisers Hyderabad 162 for 4 (Bairstow 53, Warner 45, Williamson 41, Rabada 2-21, Mishra 2-35) beat Delhi Capitals 147 for 7 (Dhawan 34, Pant 32, Bhuvneshwar 2-25, Rashid 3-14) by 15 runs Kane Williamson‘s brilliant finishing touch and yet another T20 masterclass by Rashid Khan took the Sunrisers Hyderabad to a 15-run victory against Delhi Capitals, to ensure that inside the…

Tom Westley has apologised after an Essex player was pictured pouring alcohol over a Muslim team-mate  6:01 PM GMT Essex captain Tom Westley has issued an apology on behalf of his team following an incident at Lord’s which saw alcohol poured over a young Muslim player. Essex lifted the Bob Willis Trophy on Sunday, triggering scenes of jubilation on the balcony of their dressing room at Lord’s. Amid the photographs…

5:46 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Since returning to Australia with a right-ankle injury that cut short his IPL 2020 campaign for Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mitchell Marsh still doesn’t know the extent of his injury because he and Cricket Australia have not yet received his injury report from the UAE. Speaking at a virtual press conference from Perth on Tuesday, where he is serving out his quarantine, Marsh called the situation “weird.”…

Mominul Haque chats with selectors Minhajul Abedin Nannu (L) and Habibul Bashar  3:35 PM GMT Bangladesh’s cricketers have been forced to extend their break from international cricket after their tour of Sri Lanka was postponed for a second time on Monday. They would have played in a three-match Test series for the first time in six years in October, but now they must wait till January for the home series…

3:06 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Abdul Samad, the 18-year-old with a reputation for big hitting, earned his IPL debut with Sunrisers Hyderabad in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. In case you don’t know much about him, here’s a quick check. Who is Abdul Samad? A big-hitting batsman who can also bowl legspin, Samad was one of the breakout stars of the 2019-20 Indian domestic season. Nobody struck more sixes than his…

2:43 PM GMT Sruthi Ravindranath Sanju Samson has wowed the IPL-watching public with his power-hitting this season. The secret to his form, Samson has revealed, is a conversation with Virat Kohli while at the gym, one that has changed the 25-year-old Rajasthan Royals wicketkeeper-batsman’s attitude towards his game. “[I had] one amazing experience when I was in the Indian team,” Samson, who has so far hit a 32-all 74 and…

7:16 PM IST Shashank Kishore Big picture It was last in 2015, the year before their two-year ban, that Rajasthan Royals won their first three games in a season. Having started the 2020 season with two wins, including a record-breaking highest successful IPL chase on Sunday courtesy Rahul Tewatia and Sanju Samson, they go in to Tuesday’s clash with a chance to emulate this. Having played their opening two games…

12:53 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Two games into the season, the Sunrisers Hyderabad are still trying to resolve their middle-order batting issues from last season, and searching for their first points. It doesn’t help that their opponents on Tuesday are the Delhi Capitals, who have one of the most balanced bowling attacks in the tournament. Despite two premier bowlers – Ishant Sharma and R Ashwin – being unavailable, the Capitals…

12:38 PM GMT Karthik Krishnaswamy Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s Rolling Report of the 11th IPL 2020 match, between the Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad. We’ll be seeing the likes of Shreyas Iyer, R Ashwin, Shimron Hetmyer, Rishabh Pant, Kagiso Rabada, Prithvi Shaw locks horns with David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Kane Williamson and others. You can also follow the ball-by-ball commentary of the game here. If…