5:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff There was no place for Rishabh Pant or Ambati Rayudu, with KL Rahul, Dinesh Karthik, Vijay Shankar and Ravindra Jadeja named in India’s squad of 15 for the 2019 World Cup. The selection panel, led by MSK Prasad, and Virat Kohli met at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai earlier today,
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11:13 PM ET Karthik Krishnaswamy “He gave a no-ball! He gave a no-ball!” It’s an extraordinary sight. MS Dhoni, dismissed the previous ball, has marched back onto the field and is addressing these words to the square-leg umpire while pointing towards his bowler’s-end colleague. It happens every day at the base of cricket’s pyramid, in
9:24 PM ET Alex Malcolm James Pattinson‘s Ashes chances have been given a huge boost after he was named in the two Australia A squads to tour England in June and July. Matthew Wade has also been rewarded for his remarkable Australian domestic summer, where he piled up 1800 runs across all three formats, with
Apr 13, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 570 for 8 dec (Root 126, Labuschagne 121, Carlson 111) and 70 for 1 (Labuschagne 27*, Cobb 1-21) drew with Northamptonshire 750 (Vasconcelos 184, Keogh 150, Newton 105) Northamptonshire opener Rob Newton has described the Glamorgan pitch which yielded 1390 runs and six centurions as “shocking” following their
Apr 13, 2019 Jos Buttler is considering a move back to Somerset, the club he supported as a boy and where he developed as a young player. Buttler, who is out of contract at Lancashire at the end of this season, left Somerset at the end of the 2013 season – after he had played
3:00 AM ET Alan Gardner at The Oval Surrey 395 and 68 for 0 lead Essex 448 (ten Doeschate 130, Lawrence 93) by 15 runs The Championship season is only just stirring from its winter slumber but already Surrey have experienced the intrusion of a muffled alarm call. Ryan ten Doeschate‘s propulsive hundred pushed Essex
3:00 AM ET Toss Rajasthan Royals chose to bowl v Mumbai Indians Rajasthan Royals captain Ajinkya Rahane elected to bowl at the Wankhede Stadium in the afternoon match of Saturday’s double-header. Mumbai Indians are looking to extend a three-match winning streak, having successfully defended targets in two of those three matches before their last-ball thriller
3:00 AM ET Big picture Heading into their first face-off in IPL 2019, Mumbai Indians’ 10 wins to Rajasthan Royals’ eight in tournament head-to-head speaks little of the two sides’ contrasting runs this season. A faithful picture of their fortunes, though, reflects in their edge-of-the-seat final-ball finishes – both at home – in their most-recent
shares Alex Hepburn at Worcester Crown Court © Getty Images Alex Hepburn, the former Worcestershire allrounder, has been found guilty of raping a sleeping woman following a retrial at Worcester Crown Court. Hepburn, 23, now faces a prison sentence after being convicted on one charge of rape. He was cleared of a second charge
3:00 AM ET Alagappan Muthu Big picture Six losses on the trot, and plenty of them tally back to Royal Challengers Bangalore’s weak bowling units. But this season, it may be argued that their batting is the one causing bigger problems, misfiring through every stage of an IPL match. Statistics indicate they have scored at