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Preview With Ngidi and Behrendorff unavailable, the Super Kings could turn to Tahir for wicket-taking bite Big picture The Chennai Super Kings have built their empire on the mostly slow and spin-friendly pitches of the MA Chidambaram Stadium, where they found ways to control the pace of the fast-moving format. In 2018, their “Dad’s Army”

News Allrounder Kimmince played 16 ODIs and 44 T20Is after making her Australia debut in 2008 Fast bowler Darcie Brown has been handed her first Cricket Australia contract in the one change from last year’s list replacing Delissa Kimmince who has announced her retirement. Brown, 18, made her Australia debut in T20Is and ODIs on

News Williamson nearing full fitness, confirmed Bayliss after the match The last over of the Royal Challengers Bangalore’s six-run win against the Sunrisers Hyderabad had Harshal Patel bowl a full toss over the waist, the second time he had done so during the match. An animated David Warner was seen gesturing in the dugout, wondering

Report The series is level at 1-1 after South Africa bounced back from a defeat in the first game Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs South Africa Pakistan have opted to field first after winning the toss at SuperSport Park in the third T20I. The series is level at 1-1 after South Africa bounced back

One of the most famous sporting victories of recent history was the curse-breaking campaign of the 2016 Chicago Cubs to win the Major League baseball club’s first World Series in more than a century. It was built largely upon a formula of marrying up a young and dynamic batting and fielding line-up to a seasoned

News Updates, colour and analysis with ESPNcricinfo’s match-day blog Tonight we have Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians facing off with Eoin Morgan’s Kolkata Knight Riders. We’ll have the likes of Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah and Kieron Pollard against the likes of Shubman Gill, Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik. If this blog doesn’t load for you, click

Big Picture It’s been a good beginning for the Royal Challengers Bangalore to IPL 2021, winning a hard-fought encounter against defending champions Mumbai Indians on the opening day. They looked like they had the chase well in hand, before letting it slip away and needing AB de Villiers to haul it in for them. In

News Home advantage does not carry quite the same weight as it used to do The final act of the Australian season starts on Thursday with the Sheffield Shield final between Queensland and New South Wales at Allan Border Field in Brisbane. New South Wales are aiming to defend the title awarded to them last

Amidst the current panic about over rates and T20 matches extending beyond four hours, the second T20I between South Africa and Pakistan was over well within three. And yet, despite it’s brevity, it’s difficult to imagine George Linde will play another international match that provides as much gratification as this one did. Not only did

Here come the Rajasthan Royals and the Punjab Kings. It’s the likes of Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler taking on the likes of KL Rahul, Chris Gayle and Mohammed Shami. If this blog doesn’t load for you, click here.You can also follow our ball-by-ball commentary here.Click here for the full live scorecard. Sidharth

News The New Zealand captain would have taken the place of Jonny Bairstow in the season opener had he been match-fit Kane Williamson has made a career out of proving those who write him off in T20s. He tends to not start the season for Sunrisers Hyderabad, but ends up being a key player by

News Get all your updates, colour and analysis with ESPNcricinfo’s match-day blog It’s day three of IPL 2021! Today we have two overseas captains: David Warner’s Sunrisers Hyderabad take on Eoin Morgan’s Kolkata Knight Riders. We’ll see the likes of Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan facing off against Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Dinesh Karthik,

Preview The visiting side won the first T20I despite not being at their best, which will give them added confidence Big picture It’s difficult to establish whether the nail-biting nature of the first T20I was about as good as this hollowed South African unit can produce, or the harbinger of a tremendously competitive T20I series.

News The New Zealand offspinner took all the pace off the ball during a spell that included three wickets in an over Australia’s depth and confidence again shone through as they secured a 3-0 ODI series victory over New Zealand, to keep their record run going, but there was a glimpse at a potential weakness

News “Our batters did a very good job to reach 188 because the first few overs the wicket was a bit tacky, till the dew set in” MS Dhoni has hinted at being displeased with 7.30pm starts for IPL games in India. His reason: when you start at 8pm, the dew has already set in,

It’s day two of IPL 2021! Today we have MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings taking on Rishabh Pant’s Delhi Capitals in Mumbai. We’ll see the likes of Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur facing off against R Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan and Marcus Stoinis. If this blog doesn’t load for you, click here.You can also

News The allrounder admits this season has been a challenge but is committed to a spell overseas Sean Abbott admitted that there have been days during a long season when finding the motivation to train has been difficult but after a brief break he is ready to keeping playing in order to push his case

Buckle up, it’s time for the IPL 2021 to begin! To get us started, we have Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians, the defending champions, taking on Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore. Tonight we’ll see Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard and Jasprit Bumrah facing off against AB de Villiers, Glenn Maxwell and Yuzvendra Chahal. If this blog doesn’t