12:51 AM IST Sreshth Shah Kolkata Knight Riders 145 for 3 (Gill 70*, Morgan 42*) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 142 for 4 (Pandey 51, Russell 1-16, Cummins 1-19, Chakravarthy 1-25) by seven wickets The Kolkata Knight Riders bounced back from their comprehensive defeat to the Mumbai Indians to ease past the Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets
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6:46 PM GMT Whatever happens on the final day of the English first-class season on Sunday, Somerset – and perhaps England – can take heart from the emergence what may well prove to be a significant new talent. In normal circumstances, there is every chance Tom Lammonby may have spent this season playing second XI
12:50 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s Rolling Report of the eighth IPL 2020 match, between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Knight Riders lost their first game, and in their camp are the likes of Dinesh Karthik, Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav, Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, and others.
4:56 AM GMT Jane Jones, Dean Jones‘ wife of 34 years and the mother of their two children, has spoken of the family’s grief at losing the 59-year-old to a heart attack and of their gratefulness for the global outpouring of gratitude for his eventful life in cricket. A major commemorative celebration will take place
8:35 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff It’s not often that the Chennai Super Kings find themselves struggling at the start of an IPL season. This time round, though, they lost key players even before the tournament began, and an injury to Ambati Rayudu has weakened their batting to the extent that they’ve fallen out of contention
12:15 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Stafanie Taylor, West Indies women’s captain, has hailed the hard work that women’s cricketers have put in after becoming only the second player – male or female – to reach the landmark of 3000 T20I runs. Taylor, 29, reached the milestone with a scampered second run on an overthrow in
4:17 AM GMT Dean Jones was lost to Australian cricket just when it appeared as though his occasionally fraught relationship with the leadership of the game had moved towards more constructive and collaborative territory. In mourning Jones’ sudden loss at the age of 59 and his rich legacy as a cricketer, Australia’s coach Justin Langer
6:12 PM GMT Eddie Byrom hailed “the most important innings” of his life after his century helped Somerset into a strong position in the Bob Willis Trophy final at Lord’s. Byrom, who had never previously made more than 56 in a first-class game against a county side, made a fluent 117 to lead Somerset to
10:43 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Dean Jones, the former Australia batsman, has died on Thursday after a heart attack in Mumbai. He was 59. Jones, who was is in India as a commentator for the IPL, is understood to have suffered a massive heart attack around noon IST. “It is with great sadness that we
3:53 AM GMT Mitchell Marsh has been forced out of the IPL with an ankle injury to continue a rollercoaster few years for the allrounder and it leaves him in doubt for the start of the Australian home summer. March 2017: India tour cut short Having returned to the Test side after been dropped the