9:55 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Middlesex have landed another notable signing, with the confirmation that Ross Taylor will be joining the club for this season’s Royal London One-Day Cup. Taylor, who is gearing up for his fourth World Cup campaign with New Zealand, is currently in a superb run of form, having scored 1,063 runs
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1:27 AM ET Sidharth Monga in Delhi After Delhi Capitals lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday night, even as presentations and handshakes and selfies and interviews went on, Capitals’ consultant Sourav Ganguly took the head groundsman of Feroz Shah Kotla to the match pitch. An animated conversation went on for 10 minutes or so. Hands
3:00 AM ET Big picture At six weeks, the IPL can seem like a short tournament. But if you get on a losing run – the kind Royal Challengers Bangalore are in right now – even six weeks can seem like an eternity. But not all is lost for Virat Kohli and Royal Challengers. In
3:00 AM ET Toss Sunrisers Hyderabad chose to bowl v Delhi Capitals Bhuvneshwar Kumar led Sunrisers Hyderabad again in the absence of Kane Williamson and chose to bowl with an unchanged side against Delhi Capitals. On the contrary, Capitals made three changes to their XI that lost to Kings XI Punjab three days ago. The
2:15 AM ET Annesha Ghosh in Mumbai Picking players a bit long in the tooth has made trolls label Chennai Super Kings as the “dad’s army” and “Chennai Senior Kings” since last year, but in IPL 2019, it has also played a part in their sloppy performance as a ground-fielding unit, admitted head coach Stephen
4:05 PM ET George Dobell in Jaipur Jos Buttler believes it was “probably the wrong decision” to give him out in Rajasthan Royals’ first game of the IPL season but feels the current wording of the Laws governing run-outs at the non-striker’s end is “wishy-washy” and requires further clarification. Buttler was run-out backing-up – or
12:39 AM ET Sruthi Ravindranath While there have been umpteen suggestions on who should take up India’s No. 4 World Cup spot, former captain Kapil Dev does not believe the concept of slots applies in modern day cricket. At the end of nearly every IPL match, a number of names, including the likes of Vijay
2:58 PM ET Royal Challengers Bangalore’s constant chopping and changing of not only the personnel but also the roles of the players within the XI has come in sharp focus after the side’s four losses in their first four matches in this IPL. Shimron Hetmyer, for example, has had these roles in his first four
3:00 AM ET Toss Rajasthan Royals opt to bowl v Royal Challengers Bangalore Rajasthan Royals captain Ajinkya Rahane chose to field first against Royal Challenger Bangalore in Jaipur. His opposite number Virat Kohli, captaining for the 100th time in the IPL, said that they would have wanted to bat first, but now have to focus
8:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur said suffering a clean sweep at home against Australia “hurts us incredibly”. Addressing a press conference after the team returned home from Dubai – having lost all five ODIs – Arthur pointed to the number of players Pakistan had decided to rest, but conceded the side’s