11:58 PM IST Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Kolkata Knight Riders 167 all out (Tripathi 81, Bravo 3-37) beat Chennai Super Kings 157 for 5 (Watson 50, Russell 1-18) by 10 runs An intensely tactical battle between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Super Kings ended with the Knight Riders triumphant by ten runs, with both teams having dominated the first half of…
1:12 PM GMT Varun Shetty Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s Rolling Report of the 21st IPL 2020 match, between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Super Kings, in Abu Dhabi. Get ready for the likes of Sunil Narine, Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik taking on the likes of MS Dhoni, Shane Watson and Ravindra Jadeja. You can also follow ball-by-ball commentary of the game here. If the blog doesn’t load for…
1:04 PM GMT Rohit Balaji Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kings XI Punjab, Dubai Pro Tip: Have an extra Kings XI batsman to take advantage of the depleted Sunrisers’ attack. Our XI: Jonny Bairstow, David Warner, KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Kane Williamson, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Rashid Khan, T Natarajan Substitutes: Sheldon Cottrell, Manish Pandey, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Sandeep Sharma NOTE: We might not always be able to…
1:01 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The Chennai Super Kings came back into form in stunning fashion when their openers alone wiped out a target of 179 against the Kings XI Punjab three days back. But that came after three successive defeats where their batsmen couldn’t accelerate and pace the run chase well. The return of Ambati Rayudu and Dwayne Bravo is surely a plus, but the Super Kings need to…
6:26 PM IST Sreshth Shah Big picture Two teams that, on paper, are heavily reliant on their top order face off in Dubai – it’s Kings XI Punjab against Sunrisers Hyderabad, both teams in the bottom three of the IPL 2020 points table at this stage. The Kings XI have lost their last three games and are last among the eight sides despite KL Rahul (302) and Mayank Agarwal(272) being…
8:48 AM GMT No Meg Lanning, no Ellyse Perry, no problem for Australia. There could not have been a more emphatic way for Australia to equal the world record for consecutive ODI wins than the performance they produced against New Zealand in Brisbane, both in the context of the individual match itself and also as a reminder of the depth they have built over the last three years. Lanning’s century…
Ben Stokes has a pensive moment © BCCI Ben Stokes says that his return to cricket comes with the “love and blessing” of his family, after linking up with his Rsjasthan Royals team-mates in the UAE to take part in the IPL. Stokes was granted indefinite leave during England’s Test series against Pakistan in August, after his father Ged was diagnosed with brain cancer, and has spent the past five…
6:54 AM GMT If Marnus Labuschagne‘s conscious mind will be grappling with the likes of Peter Siddle, Riley Meredith and Jackson Bird in the opening Sheffield Shield round from Saturday in Adelaide, his deeper thoughts have already turned to how India’s pacemen will seek to end the golden run he has enjoyed in Test matches since last year’s Ashes series. While Labuschagne has played one Test against India, batting No….
6:28 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kolkata Knight Riders fast bowler Ali Khan is injured but is not out of the tournament, contrary to an IPL release from Tuesday. The release had said he was “injured and will miss the rest of the season”, without specifying the nature of the injury. However, ESPNCricinfo understands that Khan had suffered a side injury, but is doing rehab currently with the Knight Riders camp….
11:32 AM IST Australia 5 for 325 (Haynes 96, Healy 87, Kerr 3-50) beat New Zealand 93 all out (Satterthwaite 41, Molineux 2-2, Gardner 2-11) by 232 runs That Australia would conclude a domineering home series against New Zealand with their second highest ever ODI total on home shores, on the way to a record-setting 21st consecutive ODI victory, was startling enough. That they could do all this without their…