5:48 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cummins XI 250 for 8 (Maxwell 108, Stoinis 87, Lyon 3-47) beat Finch XI 249 (Tye 59, Starc 41, Stoinis 4-31) by two wickets Glenn Maxwell hit a century in his first innings since the Big Bash final in February and Marcus Stoinis produced an impressive all-round display with 87
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6:33 PM IST Eoin Morgan won the toss in the second T20I against Pakistan and chose to bowl first. Both teams were unchanged from the first match, which was abandoned in the 17th over of the first innings due to rain. The same surface is to be used. Babar Azam, the Pakistan captain, admitted he
1:25 PM IST Shashank Kishore IPL 2020 is less than three weeks away, but the tournament’s schedule – which some believe may be dynamic to account for unforeseen situations, like members of a team testing positive – hasn’t been announced yet. The news of several members of the Chennai Super Kings contingent testing positive for
3:48 AM IST Jamaica Tallawahs 147 for 6 (Phillips 79*, Emrit 3-32) beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 110 (Brathwaite 3-11) by 37 runs Jamaica Tallawahs secured their third win of the CPL and moved ahead of the pack into third place thanks to Glenn Phillips‘ 79 not out and a polished bowling performance on
8:23 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Northamptonshire 128 for 1 (Stirling 80*) beat Worcestershire 124 for 7 (Haynes 41) by nine wickets Paul Stirling delivered a superb match-winning debut for Northamptonshire Steelbacks who overwhelmed Worcestershire Rapids by nine wickets in a Vitality Blast encounter at New Road. Stirling had showed his awesome power earlier in
11:30 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Chennai Super Kings’ Suresh Raina will miss the entire IPL for personal reasons. He has returned to India from the UAE. “Suresh Raina has returned to India for personal reasons and will be unavailable for the remainder of the IPL season. Chennai Super Kings offers complete support to Suresh and
12:44 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Sussex 116 for 5 (Salt 40, Batty 2-17) v Surrey – Match abandoned The players of Sussex and Surrey were frustrated onlookers as rain ruined a promising-looking Vitality Blast match at Hove. Surrey were looking slight favourites when play was abandoned after just 15.2 overs of play. Sussex were
8:34 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Somerset have confirmed that Dom Bess will leave the club at the end of the 2020 season having declined a contract extension, with England’s incumbent Test spinner reportedly set to join Yorkshire. Bess made his first-class debut for Somerset in 2016 but has had to make do with limited opportunities
9:42 AM IST Australia will implement stricter protocols around the use of sweat to shine the ball during their England tour than has so far been seen during international cricket’s return. Early in the pandemic the ICC ruled that no saliva would be allowed to be used to shine the ball but that sweat was
2:52 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Joe Root has said he is “quite realistic” about the difficulties he will face breaking into England’s first-choice T20I side ahead of next year’s World Cup in India. Since top-scoring in the 2016 World T20 final – a tournament in which he was England’s run-scorer, and memorably cracked a 44-ball