Month: April 2021

News Updates, colour and analysis with ESPNcricinfo’s match-day blog Tonight we have Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians facing off with Eoin Morgan’s Kolkata Knight Riders. We’ll have the likes of Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah and Kieron Pollard against the likes of Shubman Gill, Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik. If this blog doesn’t load for you, click here. Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo Source: ESPN Crickinfo

News Already without Jofra Archer, the Rajasthan Royals might have to do without another key man Ben Stokes has picked up a hand injury, which has made him a doubt for the rest of the Rajasthan Royals’ campaign at IPL 2021. The allrounder sustained the injury during the Royals’ opening game, against the Punjab Kings, when he ran in from long-on and dived forward to take Chris Gayle’s catch in…

News Tour games between English first-class teams and New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Pakistan also scrapped India A’s tour of England this summer, which would’ve seen them play against both India and England Lions, has been postponed. Instead, the BCCI will send an inflated squad to “prepare for, and use during” India’s five-Test series against England. The change is keeping in mind the prevailing Covid-19 situation, with the ECB saying…

Preview Whether Sunrisers, who are searching for their first points, can fit Williamson in will be worthing watching out for Big Picture It’s been a good beginning for the Royal Challengers Bangalore to IPL 2021, winning a hard-fought encounter against defending champions Mumbai Indians on the opening day. They looked like they had the chase well in hand, before letting it slip away and needing AB de Villiers to haul…

News “People are starting to realise that uncapped bowlers are good enough to take responsibilities of death bowling” “I wasn’t going to get the opportunity [at the Capitals] that I am getting at RCB”   For Harshal Patel, being asked to bowl at the death in a T20 game is to be in a “privileged position”, one that he says he has worked hard to earn after being a bit…

News Batsman may become ‘batter’ under terms being discussed by tournament organisers Wickets could be referred to as “outs” in the Hundred under proposed terms being discussed by the ECB to make cricket more accessible to the new audience the tournament is hoping to attract. The inaugural Hundred – postponed from last year – starts with a women’s match between Oval Invincibles and Manchester Originals at the Kia Oval on…

News Five members of the touring party hadn’t left for home with the others after returning positive Covid-19 tests on Monday Seventeen members of the touring contingent had been sent home on Tuesday morning   The five members of the South Africa Emerging Women’s side, who had tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday while on tour in Bangladesh, returned negative tests on Tuesday afternoon, with CSA saying the initial results…

News Leigh Kasperek’s nine wickets in two games helps her get to No. 17 on the bowlers’ chart Meg Lanning leads Australia off after they sealed a 3-0 series win over New Zealand   Leigh Kasperek‘s career-best returns of 6 for 46, followed by 3 for 24, against Australia has pushed her seven spots up to No. 17 among bowlers in the ICC rankings in the 50-over format, even as…