3:00 AM ET Big Picture Sixty days after the eighth edition of the Big Bash League started, it will conclude with the first ever Derby final – the Melbourne Stars and the Melbourne Renegades. Docklands Stadium is the venue by nature of the Renegades finishing higher after the qualifying rounds, despite the best efforts of
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3:00 AM ET Toss New Zealand elected to bowl v Bangladesh Kane Williamson elected to bowl against Bangladesh in the second ODI in an overcast and damp setting at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. Most of the lead up to the toss had the pitch under covers due to morning showers, but there were no delays.
6:52 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and KL Rahul will be back playing for India again when they take on Australia in a series of two T20Is and five ODIs starting February 24. While those three players will be available for each of the seven matches, frontline fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar has
11:51 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Islamabad United chased down Lahore Qalandars’ 171 for 8 with enough to spare in their PSL 2019 opener, but they could well have had a slightly smaller target but for a rare occurrence during the Lahore innings – penalty runs for the ball hitting Luke Ronchi‘s discarded wicketkeeping gloves. It
5:27 PM ET The head of FICA, the international cricketers’ association, says that a protocol for the use of stump microphones must be introduced to avoid the “selective use” of incriminating audio by broadcasters. Tony Irish’s comments come after the West Indies fast bowler, Shannon Gabriel, and the Pakistan captain, Sarfaraz Ahmed, were both handed
9:08 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff In six out of the eight editions of the BBL, the team finishing top of the table has fallen at the semi-final. Here’s a brief history of the curse of dominating the group stage ESPNcricinfo Ltd BBL02: Brisbane Heat 3 for 183 beat Melbourne Renegades 9 for 168 by 15
shares Joe Root and Shannon Gabriel face off © Getty Images Shannon Gabriel has extended an “unreserved apology” to Joe Root and the wider cricketing world for his sledge during the St Lucia Test, which has since led to a four-match suspension on him, also calling the episode an “opportunity for myself and all
2:23 PM ET Quinton de Kock, South Africa’s best batsman on day one of the first Test, has conceded that Sri Lanka’s inexperienced quicks caught his team “off guard” at Kingsmead. There are few real surprises in top-level cricket any more, such is the preponderance of video analysis. Generally, it is also a disadvantage to
3:00 AM ET Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl v South Africa Captaining in a Test match for the first time, Dimuth Karunaratne called correctly at the toss and put South Africa in to bat on a grassy, green-tinged Kingsmead track. “There’s a little moisture in the surface and we want to make the most
12:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff It could have been worse, but Ashok Dinda, the former India paceman, has been cleared of anything too ‘alarming’ following scans after he copped a blow to his forehead while trying to take a catch off his own bowling during a Bengal T20 team training session in Kolkata on Monday.