Oct 30, 2018 Eleven years since he made his IPL debut with Delhi Daredevils, Shikhar Dhawan is set to play for his home team again in 2019. ESPNcricinfo understands that the batsman is likely to have been traded by Sunrisers Hyderabad in exchange for three players – Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma and Shahbaz Nadeem. Sunrisers
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2:03 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohsin Khan, freshly installed as the head of the PCB’s new cricket committee, wants Sarfraz Ahmed to be relieved of the Test captaincy, a suggestion that will do little to calm an already turbulent start to the committee’s existence. Announced publicly only on Friday, Mohsin’s appointment had the PCB apparently
3:00 AM ET Big Picture In this day and time, it’s a surprise that a team can go seven months without playing international cricket. However, that’s the case with New Zealand, who played their last game in March-April 2018. They will end the drought with the three-match T20I series against the No. 1-ranked Pakistan in
11:21 PM ET Non-compliant: Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh Partially compliant: Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Goa, Maharashtra, Bihar, Bengal, Chattisgarh, Manipur, Vidarbha Substantially compliant: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Baroda, Mizoram, Puducherry, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Mumbai, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Saurashtra, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh The Committee of Administrators (CoA)
shares Stuart Broad and James Anderson could be competing for one spot in the Test side © Getty Images Stuart Broad could be dropped from England’s Test side for the first time since 2012. Broad, the second-highest wicket-taker in England’s Test history, would appear to be vulnerable as England balance the desire to play
3:56 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Former captain Arjuna Ranatunga has said he “feared for his life” after becoming the first high profile figure to be caught up in violence, in Sri Lanka’s unfolding political crisis. One person has died from injuries after Ranatunga’s security detail opened fire during the clash at the Ceylon Petroleum
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia women 98 for 1 (Healy 67*) beat Pakistan women 97 for 8 (Maroof 34, Schutt 2-15) by nine wickets Alyssa Healy hit nine fours and a six in her unbeaten 40-ball 63 International Cricket Council Alyssa Healy’s bruising unbeaten 41-ball 67 helped Australia wipe off their 98-run target in only
3:00 AM ET Toss Pakistan opt to bat v Australia Usman Khan in his delivery stride AFP Pakistan will bat first in the third and final T20I in Dubai. Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss and decided Pakistan would set a target for the third consecutive match, noting it looked like a good wicket on which they
4:29 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Two months after completing a five-year ban for match-fixing, Mohammad Ashraful has found his way back into the Bangladesh Premier League. The 34-year old batsman was picked up by Chittagong Vikings during the player draft for the sixth season of the tournament which begins on January 5. May 31, 2013
12:04 AM ET Andrew McGlashan Melinda Farrell Former Australia captain Steve Waugh believes the previous lack of stringent punishments for ball-tampering manifested itself in things getting “out of control” with the Newlands controversy that led to the suspensions of Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft. The trio were handed severe sanctions by Cricket Australia