Month: October 2020

9:30 AM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Sophie Ecclestone, the England spinner and the No. 1 T20I bowler in the ICC’s rankings, has revealed that she turned down a contract to play for Perth Scorchers in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL). While quarantining in the UAE ahead of the Women’s T20 Challenge, Ecclestone told ESPNcricinfo in an interview…

8:55 AM GMT Shashank Kishore Navdeep Saini, the Royal Challengers Bangalore fast bowler, has suffered a split webbing in his right hand while bowling in the match against the Chennai Super Kings on Sunday. He got hit on the right thumb while fielding off his own bowling, forcing him to immediately leave the field after the 18th over of the Super Kings’ chase in Dubai. A plastic surgeon was instantly…

7:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sydney Sixers 1 for 47 beat Adelaide Strikers 7 for 68 (Kapp 3-14) by nine wickets (DLS method) Ellyse Perry struck the winning runs in her first match for more than seven months as the Sydney Sixers beat both the Adelaide Strikers and the weather with two balls to space on a grey, wet day at North Sydney Oval. After appearing set to join the…

7:34 AM GMT Cricket South Africa’s entire board – consisting of 10 members at last count – have resigned. The news comes after six of the directors, including former acting president Beresford Williams, four other non-independent members and one independent member Dheven Dharmalingam had stood down following a meeting on Sunday. By Monday morning, the other non-independent director, Zola Thamae, and the three remaining independents, Eugenia Kula-Ameyaw, Marius Schoeman and…

1:12 AM GMT As the group matches reach the final stage, with a number of teams jostling for places in the knockouts, a look back at how the Australians have gone over the last week Cummins doubles his tally It had been a lean tournament with the ball for Pat Cummins before he faced Delhi Capitals – three wickets in 10 outings. He had played a part at times with…

7:48 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mumbai Indians allrounder Hardik Pandya took a knee in Sunday’s game against the Rajasthan Royals as part of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Pandya scored a scintillating 60 off 21 balls and after reaching his half-century on the penultimate ball of the innings with a six, he went down on a knee with his right arm raised and signalled towards the Mumbai dugout to…

Chopra: Such a Hardik Pandya innings was brewing for a while (3:07) Chopra also said Rajasthan Royals’ death bowling was “pedestrian” (3:07) 11:29 PM IST Hemant Brar Rajasthan Royals 196 for 2 (Stokes 107*, Samson 54*, Pattinson 2-40) beat Mumbai Indians 195 for 5 (Hardik 60*, Yadav 40, Gopal 2-30) by eight wickets Ben Stokes finally came to the party with an unbeaten 107 off 60 balls as the Rajasthan…

Fantasy Pick: Don’t look beyond KL Rahul and Eoin Morgan (8:08) Sanjay Manjrekar makes his fantasy picks for the game between Punjab and Kolkata (8:08) 4:19 PM GMT Rohit Balaji Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab, Sharjah Pro Tip: Pitches have been considerably slow, so fill your XI with spinners along with top-order batsmen as the game is in Sharjah. Spinners have picked up 12 wickets at an economy…

Lasith Malinga holds the IPL trophy and celebrates with Krunal and Hardik Pandya  3:31 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The first qualifier and the final of IPL 2020 will be played in Dubai on November 5 and 10, respectively, while the eliminator – between the teams placed third and fourth – and the second qualifier will be played in Abu Dhabi on November 6 and 8. All the playoff matches will…