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Jos Buttler will miss the Rajasthan Royals IPL 2020 opener, against Chennai Super Kings on Tuesday in Sharjah, as he is currently serving his mandatory quarantine after arriving in the UAE with his family. “Unfortunately I am going to miss the first Rajasthan game because I am going to be …

Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner is focusing on mentally staying in the right space because “going from one biobubble to another is a challenge.” Warner has just arrived in the United Arab Emirates from the United Kingdom, where he was part of the limited series for Australia against England. “The …

Two retirement announcements by Chennai Super Kings players dominated the airwaves this year. Both MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina received their well-deserved praise, but it would be fair to say that it was hard to imagine either of them wearing an India jersey again. Compare that to a shocking ad …

When Ambati Rayudu fell 71 after making a 115-run stand for the second wicket with Faf du Plessis, the Chennai Super Kings still needed 42 of 24 balls against the Mumbai Indians in the opener of the 2020 IPL. Conventional wisdom suggested that either Kedar Jadhav or MS Dhoni, one …

4:19 pm GMT Nagraj Gollapudi Near News Editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor of ESPNcricinfo Gaurav sundararaman One of the truest clichés of the IPL is that each edition is more open than the last. For example, playoff spots in the last four seasons were determined only on the …

Adaptability, choosing the right personnel and reading pitches correctly in the absence of pitch advantage will be key to success at IPL 2020, according to Chennai Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming. “This season is going to be very different tactically,” Fleming told the Super Kings website. “Without a real …

The 21 players who will travel from the England-Australia limited overs series to the IPL will have to isolate themselves for a variable period ranging from one to six days once they arrive in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday night. For the group traveling to Dubai, consisting of 18 …

Melbourne’s closure, in the cause of stopping the Covid-19 pandemic, has taken much of a previously vibrant city. However, one thing that he has gifted Australian cricket with is clarity about the role Glenn Maxwell is playing for the ODI team, just over a year after his absence contributed to …

If some of the art of success in limited-limit cricket is peaking at the right time, England hasn’t timed its decline in results that badly. There is never a good time to lose to Australia, of course. Especially considering that the result was 5-0 against England the last time they …

Jofra Archer has indicated that he could withdraw from this winter’s Big Bash League in Australia, after acknowledging that the “mental challenge” of life in England’s biosecurity bubble may, at times, have had a compromising effect on his performances. . Archer, Sunday’s player of the game when England tied the …