Lunch England 81 for 3 (Root 38*) v BangladeshLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 02:52 ‘Bangladesh have a lopsided team’ Mehedi Hasan, Bangladesh’s 18-year-old debutant, stole the show on the first morning of the first Test at Chittagong, as England’s batsmen were served notice of the trial by spin that awaits on this winter’s tour of the subcontinent. Bowling with purpose and purchase on a lively wicket that offered turn…
England Women 158 for 5 (Sciver 58*, Beaumont 34) beat West Indies Women 155 (Taylor 57, Hartley 4-24) by five wicketsScorecard File photo – England Women’s left-arm spinner Alex Hartley finished as the leading wicket-taker in the five-match series, with 13 dismissals © WICB Media/Athelstan Bellamy Left-arm spinner Alex Hartley‘s career-best 4 for 24 subdued a powerful West Indies Women’s batting line-up to 155, paving the way for England Women’s…
Shahid Afridi and Darren Sammy were team-mates at Hampshire this year © Getty Images Shahid Afridi has handed over the captaincy of Pakistan Super League (PSL) team Peshawar Zalmi to Darren Sammy, who has led West Indies to two World T20 titles. The announcement was made during the second PSL draft in Dubai on October 20. Peshawar Zalmi New players: Eoin Morgan (England), Haris Sohail, Alex Hales (England), Mohammad Shahzad…
England won the toss and chose to bat first against BangladeshLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 02:52 ‘Bangladesh have a lopsided team’ Alastair Cook marked his record-breaking 134th Test by winning the toss for England and choosing to bat first in the first Test against Bangladesh at Chittagong. Cook, who arrived back in the country earlier this week having flown home for the birth of his second child, had no…
Mitchell Starc took a 24 wickets in three Tests on Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka earlier this year © Associated Press Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc is confident he will be ready for the first Test against South Africa in Perth in November after declaring himself fit for a Sheffield Shield appearance next week. Starc had surgery five weeks ago after a horror incident in which he suffering a deep…
File photo – Ishant Sharma is set to play his first competitive match for two months © Getty Images Ishant, Gambhir boost for Delhi Delhi are set to welcome Ishant Sharma back into their line-up for the Ranji Trophy game against Karnataka at Eden Gardens on Thursday. It would be his first competitive match after a bout of chickengunya, which sidelined him for over two months. Gautam Gambhir, who was…
Play 02:18 Will Cook find his perfect partner in Bangladesh? Ben Duckett is set to become Alastair Cook’s ninth opening partner since the retirement of Andrew Strauss when the Test series against Bangladesh begins in Chittagong on Thursday. Duckett, who has recorded four half-centuries from his most recent five innings on the tour, has been favoured over Haseeb Hameed, with Gary Ballance expected to retain his place in the middle-order…
New Zealand Women 208 for 8 (Dodd 52, Satterthwaite 42, Curtis 42) beat South Africa Women 113 (du Preez 62, Bates 3-17) by 95 runsScorecard Legspinner Erin Bermingham disrupted South Africa’s chase with figures of 3 for 28 © ICC/Getty Images A patient fifty from opener Natalie Dodd and handy middle-order contributions from Amy Satterthwaite (42), Katie Perkins (34) and Sam Curtis helped New Zealand Women recover from 10 for…
File photo – Ishant Sharma is set to play his first competitive match for two months © Getty Images Ishant, Gambhir boost for Delhi Delhi are set to welcome Ishant Sharma back into their line-up for the Ranji Trophy game against Karnataka at Eden Gardens on Thursday. It would be his first competitive match after a bout of chickengunya, which sidelined him for over two months. Gautam Gambhir, who was…
Match facts Thursday, October 20, 2016Start time 1330 local (0800 GMT) Play 02:33 Kumble backs Rahane to open Big picture In a normal Indian season, this ODI would have been played on Wednesday and not Thursday, but it has been postponed to accommodate the festival of Karva Chauth. This is festival season in India; the Kolkata Test was advanced to avoid a clash with Durga Puja and Diwali, one of…