7:49 PM GMT Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Royal Challengers Bangalore ended their IPL 2020 season with a six-wicket loss in the Eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Friday. It was a campaign that began promisingly but fizzled out towards the end. The Royal Challengers had won seven of their
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4:35 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The PCB is keen to rope in former captain Younis Khan in a full-time role as the head of the High Performance Centre (HPC) in Karachi in addition to his role as Pakistan’s batting consultant. Earlier this year, Khan signed up as the national team’s batting coach for the tour
4:48 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff All members of the West Indies team and support staff, currently on tour in New Zealand, have cleared the second of their three covid-19 tests on Friday. The team will undergo their final test next week, just before their two-week quarantine ends. The players and support staff have been lodged
10:06 PM GMT Sam Billings has become the latest Englishman to be confirmed as an overseas player in this season’s Big Bash League after signing for Sydney Thunder. Billings is the Thunder’s third overseas signing after Alex Hales and Adam Milne, but will not be available until after Christmas following his inclusion in England’s white-ball
3:08 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Velocity captain Mithali Raj said her team found it difficult to recover before their match against Trailblazers, less than 12 hours after the first Women’s T20 Challenge game on Wednesday night. Velocity were bowled out for 47 on Thursday afternoon and lost by nine-wickets against Trailblazers. “As far as playing
7:50 AM GMT In spite of a promising beginning that peaked with a polished early stint in Australia’s ODI team, Callum Ferguson‘s career ultimately ended with a long, slow fade to retirement after the brief high of a Test debut in 2016. That Test, against South Africa in Hobart, saw Ferguson ignominiously run out on
12:05 AM GMT Tasmania and Canberra will host the first batch of BBL games this summer from December 10, before the competition swings into Queensland and Adelaide late in the month. Cricket Australia unveiled a long-delayed schedule for the first portion of the competition on Thursday, with 21 matches locked on up until New Year’s
4:08 PM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka Cricket believes it has had a breakthrough in talks over the Lankan Premier League (LPL), and is now more confident the tournament can go ahead in some form. Much of the uncertainty over the tournament had been about the 14-day quarantine that incoming players would be required
6:42 AM GMT Bismillah Khan, the Balochistan wicketkeeper-batsman, has tested positive for Covid-19 in Karachi. Khan had shown symptoms during the second round match against Southern Punjab in the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, but wasn’t tested until the fourth day, after which he was substituted on the field by Adnan Akmal. Khan spent the remainder of the
7:25 PM GMT Here’s a look at how the three games in the latest round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy panned out… Southern Punjab bounce back after conceding lead Southern Punjab scripted a superb comeback after falling 41 runs behind in the first innings, bowling Balochistan out for 112 in the second dig to set up