7:38 PM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Beaten T20 Blast semi-finalists Gloucestershire and Lancashire held their hands up and offered no excuses after 11-over defeats, refusing to blame conditions for their exits and instead accepting that they were beaten by better teams. Both sides were defeated convincingly batting first after a day and a half of persistent rain in…
Northern maintain perfect start; Southern Punjab stay winless
6:50 PM GMT Danyal Rasool In a high-scoring game, South Punjab were undone by Balochistan to fall to their fourth straight loss, while Northern made it four wins in four thanks to a half-century from Zeeshan Malik. Balochistan beat Southern Punjab by 7 wickets Southern Punjab’s winless run at the National T20 Cup continued, with Shan Masood’s side falling to a 16-run defeat against Balochistan. In a high-scoring contest, Balochistan…
Dan Christian's brutality takes Nottinghamshire into Blast final against Surrey
12:13 AM IST Paul Edwards Nottinghamshire95 for 5 (Christian 30, Hales 29) beat Lancashire 94 for 4 (Croft 33) by 16 runs Given the timings and length of games on what became Finals Half-Day, two teams were bound to be leaving Edgbaston around Sunday evening wondering why they had waited around for a day and a half. In the first semi-final it was Gloucestershire; in the second it was Lancashire…
Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis' record partnership seals 10-wicket win for CSK
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…
Sarah Glenn surprises herself with rapid rise
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….
Liam Plunkett, Ben Foakes ease Surrey into Blast final
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…
Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals face off in bid to go top of the table
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…
Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals, IPL 2020, Fantasy Pick, team predictions
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…
Sunrisers suffocate under Mumbai's bowling weight after de Kock fifty
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…
Where and when to watch KXIP vs CSK live match at 7:30 PM IST on October 4, 2020
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…