Live Cricket Blog: India given Ravichandran Ashwin injury scare

Sport360 staff 23:00 27/07/2018
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    20:00 India given Ravichandran Ashwin injury scare

    Ravichandran Ashwin failed to take the field for the first two days of India’s recently concluded warm-up game with Essex. The off-spinner is understood to have injured his right hand during practice and did not come out to bat in the India’s first innings. Ashwin did take the field on Friday to bowl four overs to alleviate some concerns.

    Read more on this story here.

    Ashwin bowled only five overs on the final day of the warm-up game.

    Ashwin bowled only five overs on the final day of the warm-up game.

    18:30: Virender Sehwag wants India to boycott the upcoming Asia Cup

    Former opening batsman Virender Sehwag was not holding back with his views on the scheduling for the upcoming Asia Cup in the UAE. India are scheduled to play two back-to-back matches on September 18 and 19 with the second of the games being against arch-rivals Pakistan.

    Read what the former India opener had to say here.

    Sehwag is not happy with the scheduling for the upcoming Asia Cup.

    Sehwag is not happy with the scheduling for the upcoming Asia Cup.

    17:30: Sri Lanka’s Danushka Gunathilaka served with six-match ban 

    Sri Lanka batsman Danushka Gunathilaka has been handed a six-match ban from international cricket after he was found guilty of violating the players’ code. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had opened an inquiry against the batsman ever since his friend was accused of raping a Norwegian woman during the second Test against South Africa at Colombo.

    Read more on this breaking story here.

    Gunathilaka will miss the ODIs and T20 against South Africa.

    Gunathilaka will miss the ODIs and T20 against South Africa.

    17:00: Wishes pour in for Pakistan’s Imran Khan from cricket fraternity

    Former Pakistan skipper Imran Khan is set to become the country’s next Prime Minister after his party won the majority of the seats in the recently concluded general elections. The 1992 World Cup winning skipper’s party has fallen short of the overall majority but are expected to form the next government through a coalition.

    Former and current Pakistan and India cricket stars have been sending in their wishes to Khan over social media. Read what the likes of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and others had to say about Khan’s victory here.

    Imran Khan is set to become the next Prime Minister of Pakistan.

    Imran Khan is set to become the next Prime Minister of Pakistan.

    15:00pm: Stuart Broad welcomes Rashid’s Test recall

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    Stuart Broad has welcomed Adil Rashid‘s controversial recall to the England Test squad.

    Leg-spinner Rashid has been selected in the 13-man squad to face India at Edgbaston next week despite his self-imposed exile from county cricket.

    Read more, here.

    10:30am: Rashid responds to Vaughan criticism

    Rashid was superb in the third ODI against India

    Rashid’s ODI form has helped him earn a Test recall.

    Adil Rashid has hit back at Michael Vaughan following the former England captain’s criticism of his Test recall and accused his county Yorkshire of being “disrespectful” in their reaction to the news.

    Leg-spinner Rashid has been selected in the 13-man squad to face India at Edgbaston next week despite his self-imposed exile from county cricket.

    Read more, here.

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