9:00 AM ET Five years ago, few would have put money on KL Rahul being a white-ball destroyer. He grew up listening to the virtues of playing straight, leaving the ball, occupying the crease and blunting the new ball. And when he made his first-class debut in 2010-11, everyone, including Rahul Dravid, heaped praises on
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8:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sourav Ganguly, the former India captain, has been re-elected president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). He will therefore continue in the post until July 2020, when he completes six years as an office-bearer, whereby he will enter a cooling-off period as mandated by the BCCI’s new constitution. Ganguly
3:00 AM ET Zimbabwe 133 for 5 (Burl 41*, Mutumbami 40*, Lamichhane3-15)beat Nepal 132 for 6 (Airee 40, Williams 2-19)by five wickets Zimbabwe have had very little to cheer about in the past few months. They became the first Full Member to be suspended by the ICC and are now set to miss next year’s
10:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Azharuddin has been elected president of the Hyderabad Cricket Association. The former India captain took 147 of the 223 votes cast, with his nearest opponent Prakash Jain polling 73 votes and a third contestant, Dilip Kumar, just three. R Vijayanand will be the new HCA secretary. He won 137
4:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Yuvraj Singh has rued the lack of support from the India team management, which left him with the regret of not playing another World Cup match after his Man-of-the-Tournament performance in India’s 2011 win. Yuvraj believes he deserved another shot with an average of 41.33 and a strike rate of
3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards at Taunton Somerset 203 (Van der Merwe 60, Harmer 5-105) and forfeit drew with Essex 141 (Cook 53, Leach 5-32, van der Merwe 4-41) and 45 for 1 (Cook 30*) A season we thought might conclude in soggy anti-climax with a title formally decided by a bland announcement over Taunton’s
12:33 PM ET Even as the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) made history by electing a woman president, a first for state associations, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has ruled that the TNCA’s constitution does not comply with the one the BCCI registered last August. Without a certificate of compliance from the CoA, no state
Sep 25, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff N Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah, two members of the old guard who became ineligible to hold office in the BCCI following the board’s constitutional reforms, will continue to have close links to the administration of their home states with their children now assuming top positions in their respective associations. Rupa
9:21 AM ET Valkerie Baynes Zak Crawley is under no illusions about the task ahead if he is to secure himself a place in England’s Test side. But for a man who is not yet 22, Kent opening batsman Crawley, who this week earned his first international call-up for the two-Test tour of New Zealand
12:19 PM ET Liam Brickhill South Africa might still be carrying “a bit of baggage” from their last trip to India, opening batsman Aiden Markram has said. Markram wasn’t in the set-up last time around, but several members of the current touring party were part of the team that lost the Test series 3-0 four