Month: October 2020

3:51 PM GMT Rohit Balaji Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings, Dubai Pro Tip: Fill your XI with top-order batsmen from both sides. Our XI: Jonny Bairstow, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Faf du Plessis, Ambati Rayudu, Shane Watson, Sam Curran, Rashid Khan, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Khaleel Ahmed Substitutes: MS Dhoni, Karn Sharma, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late…

3:37 PM GMT Week three of the IPL road-show, and as the table begins to separate the contenders from the also-rans, there’s a long-awaited glimpse of one of the tournament’s big guns. Here’s how the English contingent fared this week. Click here for week two’s update. Another miracle win for Rajasthan Royals ensures Archer’s efforts are not in vain Jofra Archer is bowling wheels. Just ask Hardik Pandya, who saw…

2:00 PM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando Mickey Arthur, Sri Lanka’s coach and a member of the ICC’s cricket committee, is insistent that more international cricket must be played over the next few months if the game is to rebound from a difficult year. Although Sri Lanka has largely kept a lid on Covid-19 transmissions through the course of the year, the men’s national team has been out of action since…

1:33 PM GMT Delhi Capitals fast bowler Ishant Sharma has been ruled out of IPL 2020 with an injury. “Delhi Capitals fast bowler Ishant Sharma experienced an acute episode of left rib cage pain while bowling at a team training session on 7 October 2020 in Dubai. Subsequent investigations revealed that he sustained a left internal oblique muscle tear. This injury will unfortunately rule him out of the remainder of…

1:09 PM GMT Nearly four months after Shashank Manohar stepped down, the ICC has set the ball rolling on picking its next chairman. October 18 is the deadline for potential candidates to file the nominations and an appointment is expected to be made before the end of the year. The candidates will need to be seconded by at least one current ICC board director to be eligible to contest the…

12:54 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Two teams on an upward surge meet on Monday when Virat Kohli‘s Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Dinesh Karthik‘s Kolkata Knight Riders, with both men hitting half-centuries in their respective last outings. Kohli has returned to form after a slow start to IPL 2020, with an unbeaten 90 against the Chennai Super Kings Washington Sundar’s bowling in the powerplay has been another plus, and the…

12:45 PM GMT Deivarayan Muthu Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s Rolling Report of the 28th game of IPL 2020, between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Kolkata Knight Riders. This time the likes of Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Yuzvendra Chahal take on Dinesh Karthik, Pat Cummins, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan, and Andre Russell. You can also follow ball-by-ball commentary of the game here. If the blog doesn’t load for you,…

Under CSA’s transformation policy, South Africa’s national teams have quotas to ensure representation of players of colour  12:01 PM GMT Cricket South Africa (CSA) intends to outline the implementation of a more aggressive transformation policy to parliament, if they are allowed to present their plans to the sports portfolio committee on Tuesday. The meeting comes a week after CSA were hauled over the coals by the same committee for failure…

MS Dhoni and Chennai Super Kings left themselves with too much to do at the end  5:27 PM IST Shashank Kishore Big picture If social media is anything to go by, this contest is also cheekily termed the MRC Nagar derby. India Cements and Sun TV networks, the parent companies of Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad respectively, are headquartered in the same upscale Chennai locality right opposite each other….

11:09 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Bangladesh’s critical Covid-19 pandemic situation has forced the BCB into postponing the 2020-21 season of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) to next year. According to BCB president Nazmul Hassan, the board’s primary difficulty in organising the tournament this year lay in hosting overseas players and broadcast personnel in an environment that is currently deemed unsafe. This week the board took ginger steps into resuming competitive…