3:00 AM ET Lunch India 367 (Pant 92, Rahane 80, Shaw 70, Holder 5-56) lead West Indies 311 by 56 runs play 0:49 Ajit Agarkar explains how West Indies bounced back in the second session West Indies’ talismanic leader Jason Holder breathed life back into a fledgling unit by restricting India’s lead to 56 with
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12:59 PM ET Saurabh Somani MS Dhoni will not take part in Jharkhand’s knockout matches for the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2018-19. Jharkhand will play their quarterfinal against Maharashtra at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Monday, and Dhoni wasn’t present at the first nets the team had, at the adjoining NCA ground, on Saturday. Team members
3:00 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bowl first v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to field first in the second ODI in Dambulla, after the toss was conducted beneath blue skies, in bright sunshine. With only 15 overs of play
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand’s first-class competition, the Plunkett Shield, witnessed a rare double-declaration as Central Districts and Canterbury pushed for a decisive result in a rain-hit match in Nelson. The result arrived in dramatic fashion, with left-arm quick Ryan McCone bowling the Canterbury No. 11 Andrew Hazeldine off the last ball of
shares Joe Root practises his sweeping in the nets © Getty Images Over the last three years, the ODI side that has fared the best against spin is India. That is pretty much as expected. What may be a little more of a surprise – though perhaps not any more – is that England
10:08 AM ET There are more rumblings against the SG ball with Umesh Yadav joining R Ashwin and the captain Virat Kohli in complaining that it goes soft too early and gives them little chance of taking wickets. After West Indies moved from from 113 for 5 to 295 for 7 at stumps, Umesh was
3:00 AM ET West Indies 86 for 3 (Hetmeyer 10*, Ashwin 1-7) v India play 3:14 The Match Day team discusses West Indies playing XI for the second Test against India Despite losing the toss, despite losing their debutant fast bowler to injury, and with the other fast bowler struggling for rhythm, with hardly any
3:02 PM ET Daniel Brettig in Dubai Upon completing his batting masterpiece, the second-longest fourth innings in the history of all Tests, Usman Khawaja declared it proof that he was as hard a worker as anyone, having fought perceptions of laziness and weakness in Asian conditions over the course of an Australian career that began
shares Australia 202 and 215 for 3 (Khawaja 82*, Finch 70*) need another 246 runs to beat Pakistan 482 and 181 for 6 dec © AFP For the first time in the match, the script Pakistan appear to have templated every time they play in the UAE isn’t quite going according to plan. On
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl against EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Sri Lanka the toss and chose to bowl in the first ODI of the series in Dambulla, with newly instated captain Dinesh Chandimal hoping for some assistance against the No. 1-ranked side from a “little bit of