24.1 overs India 147 for 2 (Gill 58, Rohit 56) vs Pakistan Rain has pushed the Asia Cup Super Four game between India and Pakistan into a reserve day. The contest is scheduled to resume as a full 50-overs-a-side match with India 147 for 2 in 24.1 overs. India made a bright start to the game with Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill scoring half-centuries at better than a run a…
Toss New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl vs England Trent Boult will play his 100th ODI and his first in nearly a year at the Ageas Bowl, as New Zealand won the toss and opted to chase against England in a match shortened to 34 overs per side by a three-hour rain delay. Boult’s most recent 50-over appearance came one day short of a year ago and…
Shreyas Iyer was meant to play the Asia Cup Super Four game against Pakistan in Colombo today, but had to be pulled out not long before the toss after suffering back spasms while warming up. KL Rahul, presumably fit for the strains of an ODI match, was drafted in to the India XI. At the toss, Rohit Sharma called it a “forced change” for the team, and that was reflected…
Australia A 170 for 5 (Turner 56*, Rae 3-42) beat New Zealand A 169 (Kelly 52, Sandhu 5-27) by five wickets The inexperienced head of Ashton Turner helped guide Australia A to victory in a the first one-dayer in Mackay after Gurinder Sandhu had run through New Zealand A with a five-wicket haul. Sandhu had been on a hat-trick after claiming Dean Foxcroft and Tom Bruce in his first over…
Shakib Al Hasan feels Bangladesh should rest their ODI World Cup-bound players during the home series against New Zealand later this month to ensure that they are “fit and healthy.” The three-match ODI series begins on September 21 and concludes on 26 in Dhaka, with both teams set to travel to India the following day. Both New Zealand and Bangladesh have two warm-up matches each on September 29 and October…
It is hardly revolutionary to see a team blaze away at the start of a one-day innings, but Australia’s mindset in the first two matches against South Africa has given a clear indication of how they will approach the World Cup. And it won’t involve seeing out the new balls. Their gameplan also brought two contrasting outcomes in Bloemfontein. In the opening match their scorecard read a somewhat bizarre 113…
If Sri Lanka had aimed too high in their Super Four game against Bangladesh, they could have ended up with a sub-par score. These are the thoughts of Sadeera Samarawickrama, the star of Sri Lanka’s batting innings, who struck 93 off 72 balls. Across the match, Samarawickrama was the only batter to make more than 20 at more than a run a ball. But he lauded Pathum Nissanka, who hit…
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan said that injuries and tactics forced them to tinker with their playing XIs in the Asia Cup, and that they were not experimenting just for the sake of it. They were expected to try out a few combinations ahead of the World Cup next month, but it all went awry as Bangladesh now stare at an exit from the Super Four stage of the tournament…
Sri Lanka 257 for 9 (Samarawickrama 93, Kusal 50, Mahmud 3-57) beat Bangladesh 236 (Hridoy 82, Shanaka 3-28, Pathirana 3-58) by 21 runs Sadeera Samarawickrama‘s expert 93 trumped Towhid Hridoy‘s gritty 82 to see Sri Lanka through to a 21-run win in Colombo, and with it, a winning start to their Super Four campaign. The result now leaves Bangladesh struggling with two defeats in as many games in this round,…
Liam Livingstone is a man for a good time, not a long time. His 52 off 40 balls in an eight-wicket defeat to New Zealand on Friday was the second-longest innings of his 47-match England career, three balls behind the whirlwind 103 against Pakistan that marked his international breakthrough two years ago. It was a timely re-statement of his credentials in 50-over cricket after a quiet summer, with England due…