Dec 20, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff December 21: Sydney Thunder v Adelaide Strikers in Canberra Our XI: Alex Carey, Usman Khawaja, Matthew Gilkes, Callum Ferguson, Alex Hales, Jonathan Wells, Philip Salt, Daniel Sams, Chris Green, Rashid Khan, Billy Stanlake NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury (or other relevant)
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5:30 PM GMT It may not immediately look like it but the situation in South African cricket is steadily improving, so much so that captain Faf du Plessis is upbeat ahead of the four-Test series against England that starts on Boxing Day. On the third day of the team’s training camp in Pretoria, du Plessis
4:09 PM GMT Varun Shetty The Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has suspended five players, a coach, and two franchise owners in relation to the KPL corruption saga that was unearthed earlier this year. In a media release on Friday, KSCA said that CM Gautam, Abrar Kazi, M Viswanathan, Nishant Shekhawat, and coach Vinu Prasad
9:46 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin has lashed out at the Tamil Nadu cricket administration, the team management and senior players for driving the state’s first-class cricket to a perilous situation where players are “succumbing to the basics of cricket.” “I don’t know where to start and where to end, to be honest, because
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1:59 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff After a decade of involvement with the IPL, Eoin Morgan has felt the full benefit of being a World Cup-winning captain after landing his biggest payday yet ahead of the 2020 event. Morgan, who entered this year’s IPL auction at a base price of INR 1.5 crore, was snapped up
11:25 AM GMT Vishal Dikshit Pat Cummins became the most expensive overseas buy in the IPL when Kolkata Knight Riders bought him for INR 15.5 crore (approx. USD 2.2m) at the 2020 auction in Kolkata on Thursday. Expected to be among the biggest buys this auction, Cummins was being chased by Royal Challengers Bangalore and
9:22 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Navdeep Saini is in line to make his ODI debut after replacing the injured Deepak Chahar for the decider of the three-match ODI series in Cuttack on December 22. Chahar “felt mild pain in his lower back” after the second ODI in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday, according to the BCCI. “The
6:03 PM GMT The 2020 IPL season is likely to begin in late March, with the BCCI earmarking the period between March 28 and May 24 as the prospective window for the tournament. The upcoming edition will, for the first time, allow loans of capped players – Indian or overseas – between teams after the
Dec 17, 2019 Sidharth Monga West Indies won the toss again and inserted India in a must-win contest for the hosts in the three-ODI series. It was a big advantage for the visitors as pitches tend to quicken up in the night and dew becomes a factor too. West Indies made two changes to their