2:16 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo Jason Gillespie doesn’t believe he’s done with county cricket, having made his coaching home there for the best part of a decade. Gillespie flies out of the UK on Sunday, bound for his true home of South Australia after adding the role of Redbacks head coach to his existing job at the helm of the state’s…
6:53 PM IST Sreshth Shah Big picture With two wins and one comprehensive defeat each, the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Delhi Capitals have begun their IPL 2020 campaigns well enough to be among the top few teams. With every result causing big changes to the points table, though, only victories can ensure they remain in the top half of the table. Both teams have earned their two victories primarily…
Alex Hales pulls through midwicket © Getty Images Few players could claim that the Covid-19 hiatus arrived at a convenient time in their careers. But for Alex Hales, the pandemic could hardly have hit at a worse moment. Back in March, Hales was just threatening to re-build a case for England recognition, following his banishment ten months earlier from the World Cup squad in the wake of his two positive…
12:57 PM GMT Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s Rolling Report of the 14th IPL 2020 match, between the Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, in Dubai. The likes of MS Dhoni, Sam Curran, Faf du Plessis, Ravindra Jadeja and Ambati Rayudu will be taking on the likes of David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Manish Pandey, and Kane Williamson. You can also follow ball-by-ball commentary of the game here. Source:…
Bangladesh coach Russell Domingo speaks to the players during training © Raton Gomes/BCB Russell Domingo, Bangladesh’s head coach, agrees that it has been tough on the players to be in a training camp that has no international cricket at the end of it and feels that there might not be any point to “going on forever” at camps, that too away from loved ones. “We want to try to involve…
11:33 AM GMT Yorkshire have said there “must be no repercussions” for any witnesses giving evidence in the investigation of “institutional racism” at the club made by former captain, Azeem Rafiq. Responding to Rafiq’s call for witness anonymity on Thursday, the club released a statement on Friday stating that they “completely agree with Azeem”. And while the statement stops short of promising anonymity, it does accept the need for “impartially”….
1:05 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff On the eve of their match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, their head coach Stephen Fleming said the Chennai Super Kings have used their six-day break “pretty well” and “have got some clarity” around what they need to do. They’ve lost two of their three games so far; their last two matches became no-contests less than halfway into their chases. The Sunrisers Hyderabad began their season with…
How do Kings XI solve their death-bowling woes? (2:59) Tom Moody and Gautam Gambhir believe the answer is right there on their bench: Chris Jordan (2:59) 10:22 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Hardik Pandya has described the sight of an offspinner coming on to deliver the 20th over of the Mumbai Indians’ innings during Thursday’s clash against the Kings XI Punjab as “mouthwatering”. K Gowtham, the Kings XI fingerspinner, who had…
1:55 PM IST Shashank Kishore Big picture It’s Virat Kohli vs Steven Smith time at IPL 2020. A contest that is bound to dominate sports pages, web pages and social media over the next three months when India tour Australia. Part of this season’s first double-header, Saturday’s afternoon clash in Abu Dhabi between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Rajasthan Royals, however, promises to be a relatively milder prelude. At…
Alyssa Healy’s 71-ball hundred took Australia to their record-breaking win © Getty Images Australia will reacquaint themselves with ODI cricket on Saturday after a gap of 12 months with a 20-year record of dominance over New Zealand to protect and the chance to equal a world record if they are able to win the Rose Bowl 3-0. Meg Lanning’s team currently sit on 18 consecutive ODI wins having most recently…