8:00 AM GMT Big picture The two teams that finished at the bottom of the points table at the 2019 World Cup will rebuild for the 2020 T20 World Cup under new team managements in Lucknow with a series of ODIs, first, and then T20Is. Phil Simmons will take charge of the side he coached
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11:10 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff It’s the vicious circle that confronts young aspirants to any plum job anywhere: must have experience but can’t get it without working in the field. Now that they’ve been handed the opportunity to gain valuable experience on England’s tour of New Zealand, Eoin Morgan wants his fringe T20 World Cup
6:32 AM GMT Temba Bavuma will captain Jozi Stars in the second edition of the Mzansi Super League, which starts on Friday. Bavuma joined the squad this season after playing for Durban Heat in the inaugural edition and succeeds Dane Vilas, who led the Stars to the title last summer. Bavuma’s appointment is another nod
8:00 AM GMT Toss New Zealand chose to bat first against England Tom Banton and Matt Parkinson have been handed their England debuts and the chance to impress ahead of the T20 World Cup next year. Banton, whose cavalier stroke-making at the top of the Somerset order saw him win both the PCA and Cricket
6:01 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Yuvraj Singh believes that an Indian player would have felt insecure and found no support if he had experienced the mental health issues that recently forced Glenn Maxwell to take a break from cricket. It is for this reason that Yuvraj feels the players “deserve” to form an association because
8:00 AM GMT India B 283 for 7 (Jadhav 86, Jaiswal 54, Vijay Shankar 45, Gowtham 35*, Porel 5-43) beat India C 232 for 9 (Garg 74, Axar 38, Saxena 37*, Nadeem 4-32, Siraj 2-43) by 51 runs It was the best pitch of the competition, not as bat-first-win-game as the previous fixtures, but a
5:57 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mushfiqur Rahim and Bangladesh have had a complicated relationship with India. There was the 2016 T20 World Cup match where he celebrated too early only for Bangladesh to lose by one run. Then came India’s semi-final loss to West Indies the following week, where Mushfiqur taunted India on social media.
7:00 AM GMT Bangladesh 154 for 3 (Mushfiqur 60*) beat India 148 for 6 (Dhawan 41, Aminul 2-22) by seven wickets Mushfiqur Rahim‘s perfectly paced, unbeaten 60 took Bangladesh to a seven-wicket win over India, their first against these opponents in nine attempts. Mushfiqur’s late charge against Khaleel Ahmed completely changed the game in Delhi,
Nov 2, 2019 Alex Malcolm Western Australia 7 for 255 (Marsh 77, Green 50*, Gannon 4-74) against Queensland Shaun Marsh continued his tantalising form with another half century but a skilful spell of seam bowling from Cameron Gannon helped Queensland restrict Western Australia on an even first day of the Sheffield Shield clash at the
7:00 AM GMT Australia won the toss and decided to bowl against Pakistan With the threat of rain in Sydney, Aaron Finch opted to bowl first in the first T20I against Pakistan. By the time of the toss the clouds had started to build up and rain started to fall before the scheduled start with