11:26 PM ET Glenn Maxwell and Australia are targeting a 5-0 sweep of Pakistan to finish their dual tour of India and the UAE, which has delivered the tourists as a group and Maxwell himself an enormous amount of growth. Clearly benefiting from added responsibility as an advisor to the captain Aaron Finch, Maxwell has
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3:00 AM ET Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat v Sunrisers Hyderabad Rajasthan Royals won the toss and chose to bat against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Hyderabad, as both teams pursue their first victory of the tournament. Royals are unchanged from the outfit that lost to Kings XI Punjab on Monday, with seam-bowling
3:00 AM ET Pakistan opt to bowl v Australia For the first time this series, the side that won the toss decided to bowl first. That side was Pakistan, led by Imad Wasim in the absence of the injured Shoaib Malik on a Dubai wicket where dew is expected to play a part after the
shares Virat Kohli drives to long-off © BCCI Virat Kohli was fuming against the standard of umpiring in the IPL after the big screen showed replays of the final delivery of the match – a no-ball that wasn’t spotted by the officials. Royal Challengers Bangalore needed seven runs to win the game and six
1:22 PM ET Shashank Kishore Srinath Sripath Chahal reaps the rewards for no-fear attitude There’s no fear. Not even after Yuvraj Singh has walloped him for three sixes. For those two minutes, even the DJ at the Chinnaswamy Stadium seems lost. He urges the crowd to go “Aree-Ceee-Beee”, but they alternate between “Yuvi-Yuvi-Yuvi” and “we
Mar 27, 2019 It says a lot about cricket that more noise has been made around the spirit of cricket than the actual legality of R Ashwin‘s run-out of Jos Buttler, despite this being a rare instance where such a run-out could be questioned under the laws of the game. The decision after deliberation should
7:20 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Phil Simmons, who was unceremoniously sacked in as West Indies coach in 2016, has reached an “amicable resolution” with Cricket West Indies, including accepting financial settlement of an undisclosed sum. A former Windies opening batsman, Simmons, who is currently the Afghanistan head coach, had lodged a case against CWI for
3:00 AM ET Toss Australia chose to bat v Pakistan Aaron Finch won the toss for the first time this series, and decided to set Pakistan a target. On a slightly greener pitch than usual in Abu Dhabi, Australia will look to seal the series at the earliest opportunity, after having thumped Pakistan in the
6:59 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Alex Lees says that Cameron Bancroft has the full support of his Durham team-mates after being announced as the club’s captain for the County Championship and Royal London Cup campaigns this season. Bancroft hit the headlines last year for his involvement in Australia’s ball-tampering scandal in their Test series
10:22 PM ET Sidharth Monga in Delhi Add this to the legend of MS Dhoni. If Dwayne Bravo is to be believed, there are no team meetings at Chennai Super Kings. They don’t plan beforehand; they just rock up and rely on their experience to devise plans on the go. A good example of it