11:45 PM IST Deivarayan Muthu Chennai Super Kings 181 for 0 (du Plessis 87*, Watson 83*) beat Kings XI Punjab 178 for 4 (Rahul 63, Thakur 2-39) by 10 wickets After losing three matches in a row, the Chennai Super Kings finally ditched their go-slow at the top and maximised the powerplay, dragging themselves off the bottom of the points table with a ten-wicket shellacking of the Kings XI Punjab…
6:02 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo Sarah Glenn‘s rise on the international stage has been so rapid that she has surprised even herself. Glenn, the 21-year-old England legspinner, is the NatWest PCA Women’s Player of the Year, just days after being named Player of the Series in the T20Is against West Indies and having made her international debut barely 10 months ago….
9:30 PM IST Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Surrey 74 for 4 (Payne 3-18) beat Gloucestershire 73 for 7 (Plunkett 3-11) by six wickets Surrey strutted into their final T20 Blast final since 2013 by beating Gloucestershire with eight balls to spare to seal their ninth win on the bounce in an 11-over game at Edgbaston after the rain eventually…
Should Delhi Capitals bring back Axar Patel for R Ashwin? (6:44) Tom Moody and Deep Dasgupta also discuss who should bowl in the powerplay for RCB (6:44) 11:54 PM IST Hemant Brar Big picture Virat Kohli wore a big smile when he got to his first fifty of IPL 2020, against the Rajasthan Royals on Saturday. That expression, especially after ending a string of lean scores, came as a pleasant…
2:17 PM GMT Rohit Balaji Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals, Dubai Pro Tip An in-form Virat Kohli is your main man and Yuzvendra Chahal is worth the punt as the pitches are getting slower. Our XI: 1 Rishabh Pant, 2 AB de Villiers, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 Devdutt Padikkal, 6 Shikhar Dhawan, 7 Marcus Stoinis, 8 Kagiso Rabada, 9 Amit Mishra, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, 11 Isuru…
What tactics would Moody use against Pollard? (3:54) Tom Moody puts on his SRH coaching hat (again) to come up with plans for Hyderabad bowlers against Mumbai batsmen (3:54) 7:39 PM IST Alagappan Muthu Mumbai Indians 208 for 5 (de Kock 67, Krunal 20, Rashid 1-22) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 174 for 7 (Warner 60, Boult 2-28, Pattinson 2-29) by 34 runs There is life in the graveyard. Mumbai conquered Sharjah…
1:09 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Chennai Super Kings don’t change. Instead, they keep picking their best players, wait for the moment it all clicks and then just keep on winning. But what if the team actually needs change? Like a wicket-taking spinner, someone opposition batsmen feel they have to respect, someone like Imran Tahir. It will bring down the targets they have to chase, helping fix another of their issues…
12:53 PM GMT Karthik Krishnaswamy Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s Rolling Report of the 18th IPL 2020 match, between the Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab, in Dubai. We have the likes of MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran and Ambati Rayudu taking on the likes of KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Mohammed Shami, Glenn Maxwell, and Nicholas Pooran. You can also follow ball-by-ball commentary of the game here. If the blog…
Click here for drip-by-drip updates from day two of the Vitality Blast Finals Weekend Saturday’s cricket was finally knocked on the head around six o’clock. The phrase was a colleague’s but a metaphor linked to putting a nearly dead fish out of its misery seemed perfectly appropriate. However, the ECB had a surprise for us all. If no cricket whatever is possible today we will not go straight to three…
10:45 AM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Scott Steel has signed for Leicestershire on a three-year deal after turning down an extension at Durham. Steel enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2019 when he impressed opening the batting alongside D’Arcy Short in the T20 Blast, making 369 runs at a strike rate of 136.66 in the competition. He had a…