1:00 AM IST Shashank Kishore Big picture The Kings XI Punjab recovered superbly – a 97-run win against the Royal Challengers Bangalore – after their Super Over heartbreak against the Delhi Capitals. Now they move to Sharjah, the smallest of the three venues, to take on the Rajasthan Royals, who made 216 at that venue

12:51 AM IST Sreshth Shah Kolkata Knight Riders 145 for 3 (Gill 70*, Morgan 42*) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 142 for 4 (Pandey 51, Russell 1-16, Cummins 1-19, Chakravarthy 1-25) by seven wickets The Kolkata Knight Riders bounced back from their comprehensive defeat to the Mumbai Indians to ease past the Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets

1:12 PM GMT Annesha Ghosh Neetu David, the former India left-arm spinner, has been appointed as the chairperson of the new women’s national selection panel, with former cricketers Kalpana Venkatachar, Arati Vaidya, Mithu Mukherjee and Renu Margrate the others in the panel. David, arguably the best female spinner to have played for India, took 182

12:29 AM IST Karthik Krishnaswamy Delhi Capitals 175 for 3 (Shaw 64, Pant 37*, Dhawan 35, Chawla 2-33) beat Chennai Super Kings 131 for 7 (du Plessis 43, Rabada 3-26, Nortje 2-21) by 44 runs Three nights ago, they had settled for protecting their net run rate after falling too far behind the asking rate

8:14 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff It’s not often that the Chennai Super Kings find themselves struggling at the start of an IPL season. This time round, though, they lost key players even before the tournament began, and an injury to Ambati Rayudu has weakened their batting to the extent that they’ve fallen out of contention

1:50 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Anushka Sharma, India captain Virat Kohli‘s wife, has criticised Sunil Gavaskar for his “distasteful” commentary on Thursday and “accusing a wife for her husband’s game”. In an Instagram story posted the day after Kohli’s team, Royal Challengers Bangalore, lost an IPL match comprehensively to Kings XI Punjab, Sharma took objection

Rashid Khan is elated after picking up a wicket © AFP Cricket Australia has announced the postponement of the inaugural Test against Afghanistan which was scheduled to take place in Perth in November due to the complexities of scheduling amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The confirmation that the Test has not survived the restructuring of the

8:33 PM GMT Eddie Byrom hailed “the most important innings” of his life after his century helped Somerset into a strong position in the Bob Willis Trophy final at Lord’s. Byrom, who had never previously made more than 56 in a first-class game against a county side, made a fluent 117 to lead Somerset to

1:17 PM GMT All six Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchises have collectively sought legal action in a bid to force the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to change the financial model of the league. They have submitted a law suit in the Lahore High Court over the long-running dispute because the franchises claim the PSL is

5:26 AM GMT Cricket Australia is working with the IPL to organise how they will get injured allrounder Mitchell Marsh back to Australia where he will then have to quarantine for two weeks as he begins his rehabilitation from the ankle problem that curtailed his tournament after just one match. Under normal circumstances the logistics