11:42 PM IST Alagappan Muthu Big picture This is the game everyone’s been waiting for. The two best teams in the tournament square off and there are match-winners right down the line-ups. Come for Prithvi Shaw’s rasping back foot shots. Stay for Rohit Sharma’s languid sixes. Scream for Jasprit Bumrah’s searing yorkers. Gasp at Kagiso

Play 05:43 Hetmyer came out to bat with a gameplan – Dasgupta 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

11:58 PM IST Sruthi Ravindranath Big picture It’s quite clear what’s ailing the Chennai Super Kings this season. Their batting, especially the middle order, has been the major weak link in their four losses. They have scored at 7.6 runs per over in the powerplay this year- the second lowest among all teams – and

4:32 PM GMT An unbeaten 52-ball 86 from Babar Azam and an all-round show by Faheem Ashraf powered a new-look Central Punjab to a comprehensive eight-wicket win over Northern, ending their five-match winning streak. The duo missed the side’s first encounter in Multan with Azam playing in the Vitality Blast and Ashraf recovering from a

9:27 AM GMT Former England international Monte Lynch has become the latest player to reveal that he experienced racial abuse during his time in county cricket. Lynch, who was born in what is now known as Guyana but moved to London as a 13-year-old, enjoyed a long country career with Surrey and then Gloucestershire. He

11:56 PM 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

5:04 PM IST Shashank Kishore Big picture The Delhi Capitals are flying high, with four wins in five games. Their duo of Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje are seemingly in a healthy mini-battle to outdo each other on the pace stakes, while Marcus Stoinis is delivering on his promise. All of this has complemented their

7:44 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Australia captain Meg Lanning vaulted to No. 1 in the ICC rankings for women’s ODI batters for a fifth time on the back of her 163-run tally in her side’s 3-0 whitewash of New Zealand that culminated in a record-equalling 21st ODI win in a row. Left-hand batter Rachael Haynes,

8:48 AM GMT No Meg Lanning, no Ellyse Perry, no problem for Australia. There could not have been a more emphatic way for Australia to equal the world record for consecutive ODI wins than the performance they produced against New Zealand in Brisbane, both in the context of the individual match itself and also as

4:37 PM GMT Rohit Balaji Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kings XI Punjab, Dubai Pro Tip: Have an extra Kings XI batsman to take advantage of the depleted Sunrisers’ attack. Our XI: Jonny Bairstow, David Warner, KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Kane Williamson, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Rashid Khan, T Natarajan Substitutes: Sheldon Cottrell,