shares Hanuma Vihari drives the ball square © PTI After finding no takers in the 2014 IPL auction, Hanuma Vihari signed up with Hutton CC in the Essex league in England. During his time off, he was in the stands for the Lord’s Test that year, soaking in Ajinkya Rahane’s counterattacking century. Four years
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6:54 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sanath Jayasuriya has been charged with two counts of breaching the ICC’s anti-corruption code. The charges relate to failure or refusal to cooperate with an Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) investigation and obstructing or delaying an investigation, including concealing, tampering with or destroying any documentation or other information which may be relevant.
3:00 AM ET Hyderabad 281 for 8 (Sandeep 96, Ayyappa 2-38) beat Andhra 267 for 9 (Vihari 95, Siraj 3-50) by 14 runs Mohammed Siraj reacts after dismantling the stumps BCCI A day after being released from India’s Test squad that swept West Indies 2-0, both Mohammed Siraj and Hanuma Vihari starred in the Vijay Hazare
1:47 AM ET “We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.” This message, one of many famous lines delivered by Sir Winston Churchill in his speech to the House of Commons following the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, was not a million
3:39 PM ET Sharda UgraSenior Editor BCCI secretary Amitabh Chaudhary is expected to represent the board at the ICC’s chief executives’ meeting to be held in Singapore this week, a task that would normally have fallen to its CEO Rahul Johri. The decision follows #MeToo allegations, made public on Friday, around Johri’s conduct with a
3:00 AM ET Liam Brickhill Match abandoned South Africa v Zimbabwe Rain interrupted South Africa’s charge AFP Zimbabwe’s limited-overs tour of South Africa came to a soggy end as a persistent highveld storm settled over Benoni and ruled out any chance of play in the third and final T20I. Two pitch inspections were postponed as repeated
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
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