Mo Bobat, England Men's performance director, has been confirmed as the new director of cricket at Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL, and will leave the ECB in February next year.Bobat, 40, has overseen the England Men's pathway for the past four years, identifying and developing the players...
Offspinner R Ashwin has replaced left-arm spinner Axar Patel in India's final 15 for the 2023 World Cup*. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Axar, who left the Asia Cup with a quadriceps strain, needs at least three more weeks to recover fully.September 28 is the deadline for teams to...
Hanuma Vihari has been named captain of Rest of India for the Irani Cup against Ranji champions Saurashtra beginning October 1 in Rajkot.Abhimanyu Easwaran, who made 798 runs in the Ranji season, misses out as he's recovering from typhoid. The other surprise miss is Kerala allrounder Jalaj Saxena,...
Siraj continues with three slips3.1 Siraj to Nissanka, OUTA stunner from Jadeja. A length ball from Siraj, just outside off. Nissanka pushed at it, opening the face of the bat at the point of contact, and that meant the ball went squarer. Jadeja dived to his right and...
50 overs Australia 352 for 7 (Marsh 96, Smith 74, Labuschagne 72, Bumrah 3-81, Kuldeep 2-48 ) vs IndiaDespite the tall score, India did manage to pull things back in the last part, conceding 122 runs in the last 20 overs and just 66 off the last ten...
Big picture: Can Australia avoid whitewash?The third ODI between India and Australia was expected to be a dress rehearsal for the teams' opening game at the World Cup but some of the key characters will be missing on Wednesday.India will be without Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Shardul Thakur,...
After Jasprit Bumrah went boom in the first over of the Asia Cup final, it was over to Mohammed Siraj. Bang, bang, bang, bang he went in the fourth, ripping out the Sri Lankan top order. It was just the fourth instance of four wickets going to a...
Rain was a constant in the Sri Lanka leg of matches at the Asia Cup, and the groundspersons in Pallekele and Colombo put in a heroic effort to ensure more cricket was played than might have been thought possible. From the winning India side, Rohit Sharma and Virat...
As in 2019, the winner of this year's ODI World Cup will be awarded prize money of USD 4 million. The ICC has allocated a total of $10 million for the tournament, which begins on October 5 in Ahmedabad.Two million dollars have been set aside for the runner-up...
India 52 for 2 (Rodrigues 20*, Shafali 17) beat Bangladesh 51 all out (Nigar 12, Vastrakar 4-17) by eight wicketsPooja Vastrakar could have well been watching the Asian Games back home on TV. She was only initially named as a non-travelling reserve in the squad, who was to...
