The Ashes 2017 July 7, 2017 George Dobell and Daniel Brettig Play 03:46 The pay dispute at a glance England will not travel to Australia to play the Ashes unless a deal has been agreed between Cricket Australia and its players’ association. Although the Ashes are not scheduled to start until November 23, England are due to fly to Australia at the end of October and an ECB spokesman confirmed…
South Africa’s Marizanne Kapp leads the tournament’s bowling charts with eight wickets in three matches © ICC We are into the second half of the Women’s World Cup and with Sri Lanka, Pakistan and West Indies needing a miracle to qualify to the semi-finals, the focus has shifted to the top five teams and three of them will be in action on Saturday. **** South Africa and India face off…
Match Facts July 8, 2017Start time: 0945 local (0415GMT) Can Graeme Cremer tighten up things on Saturday? © Peter Della Penna Big Picture Who would want to be a limited-overs bowler? For so long, Sri Lanka had been the home of the lower-scoring ODI, but in the past week, two totals of more than 300 have been mowed down, which suggests the island’s tracks are also beginning to conform to…
Innings break England 458 (Root 190, Moeen 87) v South AfricaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Morne Morkel removed Joe Root for 190 © Getty Images Joe Root’s maiden innings as Test captain was ended on 190 and Moeen Ali fell short of a first Lord’s hundred as South Africa fought back impressively on the second morning, but two ticklish stands featuring Stuart Broad, who made his first Test fifty in…
Play 01:29 ‘We should give our bowlers some credit’ – Holder West Indies captain Jason Holder has rued the batsmen’s failure to build on a “pretty decent start”, expressing concern about their shot selection after the eight-wicket loss to India, which sealed a 3-1 series defeat. On a seemingly batting-friendly surface, West Indies stuttered to 205 for 9 and did not see a single 50-plus partnership. Though Kyle Hope scored…
Play 03:46 The pay dispute at a glance England will not travel to Australia to play the Ashes unless a deal has been agreed between Cricket Australia and its players’ association. Although the Ashes are not scheduled to start until November 23, England are due to fly to Australia at the end of October and an ECB spokesman confirmed to ESPNcricinfo they would not travel unless they could be assured…
India had won the last Test series between them and Sri Lanka © AFP India’s full tour of Sri Lanka, which features three Tests, five ODIs and a T20I, will begin in Galle Test on July 26, according to an SLC press release. No practice matches have been announced so far, but the internationals themselves go until September 6, when the T20I is scheduled to be played at Khettarama. After…
Virat Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s record for most hundreds in chases. While the Little Master took 232 innings to score 17 hundreds, he has taken just 102 innings to score 18 ODI tons while batting second. Virat Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s record for most hundreds in chases. While the Little Master took 232 innings to score 17 hundreds, he has taken just 102 innings to score 18 ODI tons while…
Play 02:28 Plan was to play lesser dot balls – Kohli After two low scores, and perhaps more pertinently two similar dismissals, it had seemed like West Indies were zeroing in on a weakness in Virat Kohli‘s game. The Indian captain fell for 3 and 11 in North Sound, fending and hooking at short balls in an attempt to take the attack to the opposition before he was settled. Such…
Mahendra Singh has turned 36. He burst on to the international scene as a sprightly 23-year-old and made the wicketkeeper-batman’s position his own. There was little doubt the Jharkhand lad was destined for greatness. In less than three years, despite the presence of heavyweights in the side, Dhoni was named captain of India’s limited-overs sides and he made an immediate impact. Not long after, he took over the reins of…