3:00 AM ET Big picture It’s the final week of league matches, and it’s fourth-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad taking fifth-placed Kings XI Punjab at home, with only net-run-rate separating them. It means that the match could retrospectively be viewed as a potential quarter-final, with the winner enjoying a two-point gap between them and the bottom four
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4:16 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff There has been speculation in the media around the Kolkata Knight Riders as they slipped deeper and deeper into a slump. Questions were asked about Andre Russell‘s batting position, with the man himself wanting a promotion to No. 4. The captain Dinesh Karthik said there was no need for such
shares Hardik Pandya effects a run out © BCCI Toss Mumbai Indians chose to bowl v Kolkata Knight Riders Searching for Mumbai Indians’ ninth straight win over Kolkata Knight Riders, Rohit Sharma opted to field first at Eden Gardens for the first match between the two sides in IPL 2019. Left-arm quick Barinder Sran
6:37 AM ET Bangladesh have added pace bowler Taskin Ahmed and medium-pace-bowling allrounder Farhad Reza to the squad for the tri-series in Ireland, which begins next week. With the addition of the two, the squad has swelled to 19, with the selectors having earlier added offspinner Nayeem Hasan and offspinning allrounder Yasir Ali to the
3:06 AM ET The Pakistan Cricket Board has called off their Under-19 team’s tour of Sri Lanka following serial blasts that left almost 300 dead and more than 500 injured in Colombo last week. The Pakistan team was set to leave for Colombo on April 30, with the first game scheduled for May 3 in
4:15 PM ET Namibia 226 for 7 (Birkenstock 61, Fayyaz 2-28) beat Oman 81 (Suraj 27, Frylinck 5-13, Smit 3-21) by 145 runs In a tournament where home-field advantage has often played a huge role in gaining promotion, Namibia was one of the few nations with a relatively modest record playing at home in the
shares Anukul Roy is congratulated by his team-mates after getting his maiden IPL wicket © BCCI Big picture When Rohit Sharma walks out at the toss at Eden Gardens on Sunday night, he’d be looking to extend Mumbai Indians’ eight-game unbeaten run over Kolkata Knight Riders that now stands 1,445 days unbroken. But if
Apr 25, 2019 Big picture The bottom of the IPL 2019 table has lit up over the last few weeks. Three teams are now tied on eight points after 11 games, and each of them still has a chance to make the playoffs. Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore have put themselves in this position
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Somerset 353 for 5 (Trego 141, Azhar 110, Siddle 4-60) beat Essex 154 for 6 (Lawrence 51, Groenewald 3-34) by 36 runs (DLS method) Azhar Ali and Peter Trego hit chanceless centuries as Somerset maintained their impressive start to the season with a 36-run Royal London One-Day Cup win
7:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff English umpire Ian Gould will retire after the 2019 World Cup to finish a 13-year career as an official in the international game. Gould, who played 18 ODIs for England and was part of the 1983 World Cup, joined the ECB’s first-class umpires’ list in 2002 and made his debut