Cricket

1:20 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Australia will reconsider their plans for the build-up to the Test series with the potential for more of the squad to play in the pink-ball warm-up game against the Indians at the SCG in the wake of injuries and absences. The initial plan had been for the majority of the

4:30 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff With the first ODI between England and South Africa called off amid a series of positive Covid-19 tests, question marks hang over the rest of the tour. Here we take a look at some of the key issues to be resolved. What is the current state of the tour?Having completed

9:25 AM GMT Plan A: try and take the outside edge. Plan B: bowl straight with a funky leg-side field. Plan C: put in a leg gully. And gone. Travis Head, Australia A’s captain and national skipper Tim Paine – who will be plotting for the weeks ahead – conjured a way to extract a

1:44 AM GMT Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo West Indies’ captain Jason Holder has called on his team-mates, particularly the batsmen, to “look in the mirror” following their heaviest defeat against New Zealand in the first Test, by an innings and 134 runs. West Indies were bowled out for

Danushka Gunathilaka connects with a sweep © AFP Dambulla Viiking 207 for 4 (Tharanga 77, Dickwella 60, Lakshan 2-39) beat Galle Gladiators 198 for 7 (Gunathilaka 78, Azam Khan 55, Anwar Ali 3-37) by nine runs How the game played out The Dambulla Viiking withstood game-changing innings from Danushka Gunathilaka and Azam Khan, as well

9:11 AM GMT Sidharth Monga By the time India begin their second T20I on Sunday, their Test specialists will have played out the first day of their three-day warm-up match against Australia A at Drummoyne Oval. It is not ideal that some of the all-formats players will have to choose between the T20I and Test

Dec 4, 2020 Alagappan Muthu Lunch: West Indies 114 for 5 (Blackwood 18*, Holder 14*, Southee 2-33) trail New Zealand 519 for 7 dec (Williamson 251, Latham 86, Jamieson 51*, Gabriel 3-89, Roach 3-114) by 405 runs It happened suddenly. Blue skies giving way to grey clouds. New Zealand loved that. They could sense the

2:59 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Rory Burns has indicated he may choose to miss England’s tour of Sri Lanka in January, so that he can attend the birth of his first child. Although the dates of Sri Lanka tour are not yet known (the ECB were due to confirm them this week but had to

6:02 AM GMT A likely Test debut. Filling the shoes of David Warner. Forming a new opening partnership with Joe Burns. Tackling the pink ball. Facing Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and the rest of the India attack. While that may read like a daunting list, Will Pucovski is keeping it all perspective ahead of a

12:04 AM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando Dambulla Viiking 157 for 5 (A Perera 67, Shanaka 33, Pradeep 1-16) beat Kandy Tuskers 156 for 6 (K Mendis 55, K Perera 41, Rajitha 2-16) by five wickets How the match played out Kandy Tuskers had top significant top-order partnerships and never quite seemed like they were in

1:16 PM GMT Being without Faf du Plessis and Kagiso Rabada will give South Africa the opportunity for younger players to gain international experience even as it leaves questions over how they will balance their XI against England. Du Plessis is being rested for the upcoming ODI series after a period in which he played

5:36 AM GMT Alex Malcolm Australia debutant Cameron Green was “taken aback” by some unusual words of encouragement from an unlikely source when he arrived at the crease for the first time in international cricket. Green, 21, was visibly nervous as he entered batting at No. 5 in the 23rd over with Australia needing 186

6:15 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Bruce Carnegie-Brown, the chairman of Lloyd’s of London and vice-chairman of Santander Banking Group, will become the sixth chairman of MCC next year, when he succeeds the current incumbent, Gerald Corbett. Carnegie-Brown has been a Full Member of MCC since 1997 and joined the club’s Finance committee in October 2019.

12:51 PM GMT Cricket West Indies (CWI) officials, currently in Bangladesh to inspect the bio-security plans and health protocols in the country ahead of a proposed tour next month, are “very impressed” with the “concise and tight” arrangements. The three-format tour could yet be shortened, but question marks hanging over it might have been dispelled

5:14 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Martin Snedden has been elected as the new chairman of New Zealand Cricket (NZC), after the post became vacant following Greg Barclay’s election as the ICC chairman. Snedden, who played 25 Tests and 93 ODIs between 1980 and 1990, has played prominent roles at NZC in the past too –

7:41 PM GMT South Africa’s national teams face tougher transformation targets aimed at ensuring that by the 2022-23 season they field a side with seven players of colour. The new measures may have already kicked in though have yet to be made public, and see an increased requirement on the number of black African players

11:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Stuart Broad is in the running for the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, after claiming his 500th Test wicket during an eye-catching series of displays in England’s Test series against West Indies and Pakistan this summer. Broad, 34, was announced as a nominee on BBC Radio One

3:30 AM GMT Though India are the team with a host of bowling problems right now, Australia are not without their own concerns. Chief among these is Mitchell Starc, who has taken 1 for 147 from 18 overs across the opening two ODI games as India’s batsmen found him somewhat easier to line up than