Month: September 2017

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 17 for 0 trail Surrey 201 for 8 dec (S Curran 56*, Mahmood 4-50 ) by 184 runs Saqib Mahmood took a career-best 4 for 50 as Lancashire had the better of the opening day of their Specsavers County Championship clash with Surrey at Old Trafford. With Surrey beginning three points ahead of third-placed Lancashire, it’s a match where the winners will finish…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 18 for 1 trail Kent 302 (Denly 152, Hogan 4-44) Joe Denly‘s 23rd first-class century led a spirited Kent fightback on the opening day of their Specsavers County Championship match with Division Two rivals Glamorgan in Canterbury. The hosts had lost four wickets and Denly had yet to get off the mark after Glamorgan’s pace attack made a fiery start on a well-grassed…

1:16 PM ET There can’t have been many punters who left the County Ground at Bristol on Sunday night feeling short-changed. With Moeen Ali scorching all before him with his sensational 53-ball hundred, and Chris Gayle responding with ominous intent during his 94 from 78, a grand total of 28 sixes were struck in the course of the two innings – the most ever scored in an international match in…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Essex 227 (|Harmer 64, Brooks 3-56, Patterson 3-66) v Yorkshire Steven Patterson and Jack Brooks took three wickets each to help Yorkshire secure their Division One place for another year on the first day of their last Specsavers County Championship match of the season. Yorkshire started the day knowing that a six-point swing with Somerset would finally allay any lingering fears they had of joining…

Moeen Ali hit the second fastest one-day international century in England’s history to set up a win over West Indies by 124 runs on Sunday. Victory gave them an unassailable 2-0 lead in the third of the five-match series after the second game was washed out last week. Ali Hits 2nd Fastest England ODI Hundred – Highlights- England v West Indies 3rd ODI 2017 Joe Root with 84 and Ben…

11:58 AM ET Hardik Pandya has “turned his career around” by playing situations smartly, according to India A coach Rahul Dravid. It’s a template he hopes players from the current India A set-up emulate. Last year, Dravid was Pandya’s coach on an India A tour of Australia, where the allrounder first showed signs of being able to temper his naturally free-stroking approach when the situation demanded it. Since then, Pandya…

6:16 AM ET Umar Farooq The PCB has appointed Mark Coles as head coach of the Pakistan women’s team for the upcoming series against New Zealand in the UAE. The move to bring in a foreigner – Coles is from New Zealand – in the coaching staff is a part of an ongoing revamp in the women’s circuit. The team, under the leadership of Sana Mir, lost all seven matches…

5:57 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Graham Onions, Durham’s veteran quick bowler, has become the latest senior player to announce his departure from Chester-le-Street, meaning that, if selected, this week’s final County Championship match of the season, against Worcestershire at New Road, will be his 139th and final appearance for a club he has represented with distinction since 2004. Onions, who played nine Tests and four ODIs for England between 2009…