9:46 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin has lashed out at the Tamil Nadu cricket administration, the team management and senior players for driving the state’s first-class cricket to a perilous situation where players are “succumbing to the basics of cricket.” “I don’t know where to start and where to end, to be honest, because
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2:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Usman Khawaja has spoken of his “shock” at being omitted from Australia’s one-day squad for the tour of India after being the team’s second-highest run-scorer in 2019. Khawaja was one of seven members of the World Cup squad that did not make the new-look team for the three-match tour of
James Anderson played his first competitive game since August in Benoni © Getty Images James Anderson says he will have to come through England’s three-day warm-up match against South Africa A on Friday if he has any chance of being fit for the first Test at Centurion on Boxing Day. Anderson, who pulled up with
8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England Women 185 for 5 (Jones 89, Wyatt 55) beat Pakistan Women 101 for 9 (Javed 38, Ecclestone 2-5) by 84 runs Half-centuries to Amy Jones and Danni Wyatt propelled England Women to a resounding 84-run victory over Pakistan and an unassailable 2-0 lead in their T20I series in Malaysia.
3:32 AM GMT Deivarayan Muthu After KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma had given India a rousing start, West Indies’ bowlers tightened up and bowled 12 successive dot balls to Rohit. Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph found some seam movement and beat Rohit’s outside edge while debutant left-arm fingerspinner Khary Pierre attacked the stumps. The build-up of
6:03 PM GMT The 2020 IPL season is likely to begin in late March, with the BCCI earmarking the period between March 28 and May 24 as the prospective window for the tournament. The upcoming edition will, for the first time, allow loans of capped players – Indian or overseas – between teams after the
Josh Philippe lofts over mid on © Getty Images Sydney Sixers 2 for 137 (Philippe 81*, Jordan 2-13) beat Perth Scorchers 131 (Green 36, Curran 3-32) by 8 wickets A dazzling innings from Josh Philippe backed up a disciplined Sydney Sixers bowling display as the home side thrashed the Perth Scorchers at the SCG. Philippe
Dec 17, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff December 18: India v West Indies, 2nd ODI in Visakhapatnam Our XI: Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Nicholas Pooran, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell, Kuldeep Yadav NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about a late injury (or
2:38 PM GMT Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan’s head coach and chief selector, has criticised fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz for the timing of their retirements from Test cricket. He revealed that the PCB was mulling a policy to ensure that players remain available to play for Pakistan across formats. Amir gave up Tests in July,
5:33 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Basil Butcher, the stylish Guyana and West Indies batsman of the 1950s and 1960s, died on Monday in Florida following a long illness aged 86. He played 44 Tests between 1958 and 1969, scoring 3104 runs at an average of 43.11, and was named one of Wisden’s Cricketers of the