September 20, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff All the buzz from the IPL 2020 game between Shreyas Iyer’s Delhi Capitals and KL Rahul’s Kings XI Punjab. If the blog doesn’t load for you straightaway, please refresh your page or click here. © ESPN Sports Media Ltd. Comments

2:29 AM IST Karthik Krishnaswamy Big picture Three of the eight current IPL franchises have never won the trophy, and two of them face off at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday. To get an idea of how desperately Delhi Capitals and Kings XI Punjab have tried to assemble a combination that could one day

8:44 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo West Indies and England women will take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter during their five T20Is starting on Monday. Stafanie Taylor, the West Indies captain, revealed on Saturday that the teams would perform the gesture and praised England

11:53 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff India could host England in the UAE this winter, with the BCCI signing an agreement with the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) to “boost cricketing ties” between the two boards on Saturday. While the agreement is restricted only to this year’s IPL, which begins today in Abu Dhabi, ESPNcricinfo understands there

2:38 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 188 for 4 (Balbirnie 99*) beat Gloucestershire 171 for 6 (Dent 55, Wagg 3-34) by 17 runs Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie fell agonisingly short of becoming Glamorgan’s sixth centurion in T20 cricket as he led his side to a well-earned victory over Central Group leaders Gloucestershire by 17

1:21 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 163 for 6 (Ackermann 67*) beat Nottinghamshire 162 for 7 (Duckett 53, Moores 51, Davis 3-38) by four wickets Skipper Colin Ackermann‘s unbeaten 67 helped Leicestershire Foxes end Nottinghamshire Outlaws’ unbeaten record at the top of the North Group in the Vitality Blast T20 in a match that

11:30 AM GMT Shashank Kishore Adaptability, picking the right personnel and reading pitches correctly in the absence of home ground advantage will be key to success at IPL 2020, according to the Chennai Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming. “This season is going to be very different tactically,” Fleming told the Super Kings website. “With

1:47 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Allrounder Dan Christian will return home for this season’s BBL after signing for defending champions the Sydney Sixers in what could mark the beginning of the final phase of his T20 career on Australian soil. For Christian, 37, who was born in Sydney, the Sixers will be his fourth BBL

7:29 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo England and West Indies Women plan to honour the Black Lives Matter movement when they begin their long-awaited T20I series next week. Heather Knight, the England captain, has been in contact with her West Indies counterpart, Stafanie Taylor, and the pair

11:31 AM GMT Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) appear to be at an impasse, with the former continuing to deny the latter unrestricted access to the forensic report which it used to fire former CEO Thabang Moroe. SASCOC, who last week instructed CSA’s Board and executive