‘Makes you want to support the opposition as well’ (3:18) Cricket fans in Pakistan tell us what it means to them to have high-profile cricket – and star players – return to the country (3:18) 3:00 AM ET Pakistan 197 for 5 (Babar 86, Shehzad 39, Malik 38) beat World XI 177 for 7 (Sammy 29, du Plessis 29) by 20 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Babar Azam leaps to pull…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Surrey 398 for 3 (Stoneman 131, Sangakkara 85*, Burns 75, Foakes 64*) v Yorkshire Mark Stoneman batted with the assurance of a man who knows he should be Ashes-bound this winter to score a dominant 131 from 171 balls as Surrey cruised to 398 for 3 on day one of their Specsavers County Championship match against Yorkshire at the Kia Oval. There were also…
1:07 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Graeme Welch has emerged as a serious candidate for the role of England bowling coach after being asked to spend two days with the ODI squad. Welch, currently the Leicestershire bowling coach, will work with the side in the lead up to the fourth ODI at The Oval and then remain with them during the game. Wasim Khan, the Leicestershire chief executive, spoke to Paul…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 325 for 7 (Dexter 102*, Cosgrove 74, Leach 3-65) v Worcestershire Promotion-chasing Worcestershire met strong resistance from bottom placed Leicestershire as skipper Mark Cosgrove and centurion Neil Dexter shepherded the visitors to three batting points on the opening day of the Specsavers County Championship match at New Road. Dexter’s century was quite a turn-up after a season in which he had not reached…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Derbyshire 338 for 9 (Godleman 51, Reece 51, Wiese 4-63, Garton 3-79) v Sussex Sussex fought back after Derbyshire’s openers had put on a century stand to restrict their visitors to 338 for 9 on the first day of their crucial Specsavers County Championship game. Playing at Hove for the first time in the Championship since June 5, Sussex put Derbyshire in then saw…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Northants 59 for 2 trail Glamorgan 207 (Salter 59, Meschede 49, Gleeson 5-60) by 148 runs Glamorgan, playing their first Championship match in Cardiff since June, bounced back from a poor start to make 207 before claiming two wickets in reply against a Northants side still holding promotion ambitions after their defeat of Sussex took them third-equal in the Division Two table A partnership…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 242 for 5 (Bancroft 124*, Dent 59) v Kent Overseas signing Cameron Bancroft registered a maiden Specsavers County Championship hundred against Kent in his final appearance for Gloucestershire before returning to Australia. Put in to bat on a green-topped pitch on the opening day of this Second Division contest, Gloucestershire had the better of things to reach 242 for 5 before bad light…
The World XI team players were paraded around the ground in colourful auto-rickshaws 11:29 AM ET The PCB will end up spending anywhere between US$ 2.5-3 million for the staging of the three-match T20I series against World XI, as it bids to build on unprecedented international goodwill and bring more cricket back to Pakistan. A major chunk of that figure will have been spent on bringing the World XI team…
Jan Brittin batting against Australia in 1998 © Getty Images Jan Brittin, who was part of England’s World Cup-winning side in 1993, has died from cancer aged 58. Brittin is the leading run-scorer and century-maker in Women’s Test cricket with five hundreds in her 27 matches between 1979 and 1998. She played 63 ODIs, and top-scored with 48 when England beat New Zealand at Lord’s to win the World Cup…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australians 347 for 7 (Stoinis 76, Head 65, Washington 2-23) beat Indian Board President’s XI 244 (Goswami 43, Agarwal 42, Agar 4-44) by 103 runsScorecard Matthew Wade shored up the Australians with a rapid 45 PTI The Australians kicked off their limited-overs tour of India with a dominant 103-run win over the Indian Board President’s XI in their only warm-up match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium…