4:54 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hardik Pandya has undergone a surgery, most likely on his back, this week. The surgery is understood to have taken place in the United Kingdom, with Hardik putting out an Instagram post on Saturday calling it a “successful” one. Incidentally, the BCCI has not made public information about the nature
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2:16 PM ET Former India captains Mohammad Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly along with former India batsman Brijesh Patel are among the biggest names put forward to contest the BCCI elections scheduled for October 23. They were part of an electoral draft roll made public on Friday which also included Jay Shah (Gujarat Cricket Association secretary
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa women 175 for 3 (Lee 84, Luus 62, Harmanpreet 1-5) beat India women 70 (Krishnamurthy 26, de Klerk 3-18, Shangase 2-0) by 105 runs Half-centuries by Lizelle Lee and Sune Luus gave South Africa women a consolation win in the sixth and final T20I of the series as
3:28 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jasprit Bumrah is not just a difficult proposition for rival batsmen, he’s also tough to face for team-mates in the nets. KL Rahul, who has been Bumrah’s team-mate across formats, said the pacer was someone “you don’t want to mess with” because he was as competitive away from competition as
3:00 AM ET Guyana Amazon Warriors 156 for 6 (Malik 73, Rutherford 45, Derval Green 2-23) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 79 (Phillips 21, Liton 21, Tahir 3-12) by 77 runs Guyana Amazon Warriors. Table toppers, unbeaten, full of confidence. What could go wrong? Not much, right? Well, eight balls into the game, they lost four wickets
3:09 PM ET Cricket’s administrators love a good warehouse, don’t they? From England’s kit launch in the Tobacco Docks in May, to the arrival of the World Cup captains on the set of Dragons’ Den later that month, and now back to that favoured hub of multiculturalism, Brick Lane, where the World Cup countdown had
6:52 AM ET Cape Town’s Newlands Stadium will host South Africa’s 2020 New Year’s Test against England. The stadium had run the risk of losing the iconic fixture due to potential disruptions stemming from an ongoing construction project, and concerns over the administrative and financial affairs of the Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA). Late last
3:00 AM ET Barbados Tridents 135 for 3 (Charles 55, Hales 33, Deyal 1-17) beat Trinbago Knight Riders 134 for 8 (Simmons 60, Gurney 2-14, Shakib 2-25, Walsh Jr. 2-34) by seven wickets After finding themselves in a do-or-die match against St. Lucia Zouks on Sunday, Barbados Tridents might wind up with a crack at
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka opt to bat v Pakistan Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat, in their pursuit of a series-levelling victory in the third and final ODI of the series against Pakistan. Pakistan made two changes to the XI that won on Monday. Imam-ul-Haq who hurt the webbing on his
3:00 AM ET Stumps India 202 for 0 (Rohit 115*, Agarwal 84*) v South Africa Six years after he scored a century on debut, Rohit Sharma resurrected his underwhelming Test career with a smooth and authoritative century in his first innings as an opener. In the company of Mayank Agarwal, he put together India’s 13th