Cricket

1:14 AM GMT While the Australian domestic season comes to life in Adelaide a group of players continue to ply their trade at the IPL in the UAE. It’s been a mixed week as the points table starts to take a bit of a divide between those pushing for the playoffs and those struggling for

3:09 PM GMT Northern beat Southern Punjab by five runs Haris Rauf‘s four-wicket burst cut a swathe though the Southern Punjab batting, as Northern recorded their sixth win in seven games to ensure a spot in the semi-final of the National T20 Cup. For Southern Punjab, it was a tale of two extremes inside three

8:15 AM GMT Shashank Kishore Overseas players from seven countries will feature in the upcoming Women’s T20 Challenge, scheduled to be held in the UAE from November 4-9. However, Australian players will not be a part of the tournament, understandably, as it clashes with the Women’s Big Bash League that begins in Sydney on October

8:36 PM GMT Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Chennai Super Kings have finished half of their league games in IPL 2020, but with only two wins in seven matches, the gap between them and the top half of the points table is widening. Captain MS Dhoni likened the problems

2:57 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Balochistan beat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by six wickets In a clash close to the top of the table, Balochistan avenged their crushing defeat against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last week by inflicting a similar loss on Mohammad Rizwan‘s side. Awais Zia‘s unbeaten 49-ball 92 helped Balochistan make short work of the 155-run target,

8:53 AM GMT Learning the art of playing a perfect pull shot from the peerless Ricky Ponting is a dream that Shimron Hetmyer is living during his stint with the Delhi Capitals. The West Indies batsman showed glimpses of his destructive self during his 24-ball-45 knock against Rajasthan Royals on Friday. The first of his

11:44 PM IST Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Delhi Capitals 184 for 8 (Hetmyer 45, Stoinis 39, Archer 3-24) beat Rajasthan Royals 138 all out (Tewatia 38, Jaiswal 34, Rabada 3-35, Stoinis 2-17, Ashwin 2-22) by 46 runs It turns out, you can defend a score of less than

4:54 PM GMT Logistical challenges have caused the PCB to replace Multan, which was one of the venues lined up to host Zimbabwe’s limited-overs series in Pakistan later this month, with Lahore. ESPNcricinfo understands that the PCB and the city government in Multan had a disagreement over the financial outlay, with the PCB deciding it

5:10 AM GMT Exacting quarantine restrictions on Victoria’s Sheffield Shield squad in Adelaide are set to force the reduction of the number of games they play in the initial rounds to just two – as opposed to four matches for some other states – as the limited training allowed has impacted the bowling workloads available

12:03 AM IST Alagappan Muthu Sunrisers Hyderabad 201 for 6 (Bairstow 97, Warner 52, Bishnoi 3-29) beat Kings XI Punjab 132 (Pooran 77, Rashid 3-12, Natarajan 2-24) by 69 runs Support acts. They’re not talked about often in an IPL game. But that was the difference between the two teams in Dubai. Jonny Bairstow walloped

3:36 PM GMT After rescuing the England men’s summer programme of home internationals, attention at the ECB has turned to winter touring. With the Covid-19 situation likely to remain fluid, and rules governing travel and quarantine subject to change, England’s itinerary for the next six months remains very much up in the air. Here we

7:19 AM GMT Back in May, at the height of Cricket Australia’s anxiety about the impact of Covid-19 on this season, draft plans for the Sheffield Shield had it pared back to just five rounds, all played after the conclusion of the BBL. As for as the pointy end of the red-ball portion of the

11:25 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon are part of New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield squad that will depart earlier than planned for the hub in Adelaide following a return of Covid-19 cases around Sydney. On Wednesday, three new cases of community transmission were confirmed ending a 12-day run of zero cases

1:28 PM GMT Varun Shetty Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s Rolling Report of the 21st IPL 2020 match, between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Super Kings, in Abu Dhabi. Get ready for the likes of Sunil Narine, Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik taking on the likes of MS Dhoni, Shane Watson and Ravindra Jadeja. You

Ben Stokes has a pensive moment © BCCI Ben Stokes says that his return to cricket comes with the “love and blessing” of his family, after linking up with his Rsjasthan Royals team-mates in the UAE to take part in the IPL. Stokes was granted indefinite leave during England’s Test series against Pakistan in August,

11:40 PM IST Deivarayan Muthu Mumbai Indians193 for 4 (Yadav 79*, Sharma 35, Gopal 2-28) beat Rajasthan Royals 136 (Butter 70, Archer 24, Bumrah 4-20, Pattinson 2-19) by 57 runs An inventive 79 not out off 47 balls from Suryakumar Yadav – his highest score in the IPL – carried the Mumbai Indians to 193

2:05 PM GMT The BCB has announced a one-day competition between three teams – to be led by Tamim Iqbal, Mahmudullah and Najmul Hossain Shanto – between October 11 and 23 to build up towards the return of domestic cricket in Bangladesh. The three teams will play each other twice in the league stage, with

7:39 AM GMT Madushka Balasuriya Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is hoping to become the first ICC Full Member nation to host a national T10 league, with SLC this week having called for tenders over franchise ownership and tournament sponsors. While the details of the tournament are yet to be finalised, SLC hopes to hold the