Month: September 2017

Pakistan and World XI team will play three T20 internationals beginning September 12 in Lahore. Fixtures, schedule, timing and squads of Pakistan and World XI teams for PAK vs WI T20Is can be found here. [embedded content] Pakistan will be playing a T20 international series against World XI as international cricket returns to the nation. The World XI squad which will be led by South Africa captain Faf du Plessis…

Sep 8, 2017 ESPNcricinfo staff Graham Ford is set to take over as Ireland’s head coach in December, when the incumbent John Bracewell’s contract comes to an end. Ford, the 56-year-old former South African first-class cricketer, has signed a three-year deal with Cricket Ireland. In June, Ford ended his second stint as Sri Lanka’s head coach, stepping down after 15 months of a tenure that was originally scheduled to stretch…

11:25 PM ET George Dobell at Lord’s Kemar Roach feared he would not return to international cricket after sustaining a serious shoulder injury. Roach, who on Friday became the sixth West Indies player to earn a place on the Lord’s honours board for overseas bowlers, was obliged to undergo surgery after breaking a bone in his right shoulder during the tour to India in 2014. For a while it seemed…

Anderson delighted with ’emotional’ 500th wicket (1:57) James Anderson reflects on his 500th Test wicket as England move into a strong position on day two at Lord’s (1:57) 6:54 PM ET George Dobell at Lord’s His normal feelings may, in his words, be limited to “anger and more anger” but James Anderson confessed he had never felt so emotional on a cricket pitch after claiming his 500th Test wicket. Maybe…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Durham 217 (Wood 72, Weighell 55, Claydon 5-54) and 359 for 7 (Latham 119, Clark 86, Haggett 3-82) drew with Kent 206 (Northeast 110, Onions 6-62) and 184 for 9 (Billings 70*, Northeast 67, Weighell 3-51) Kent’s Sam Billings returned from the migraine which had laid him low for two days to defy Durham, and their record-breaker Graham Onions, in the Specsavers County Championship…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India Red 323 (Panchal 105, Vijay 3-46) and 19 for 1 lead India Green 157 (Chopra 65, Gowtham 5-46, Karn 4-39) by 185 runs K. Gowtham makes an appeal PTI India Green, steamrolled by the spin combination of Karn Sharma and Krishnappa Gowtham, lost their last eight wickets for 34 runs as India Red took a first-innings lead of 166 in the first match of the…

12:48 PM ET Mohammad Isam Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan has made a recommendation to the selectors by asking them to consider Anamul Haque as an opening option for the South Africa Test series later this month. Anamul last played a Test three years ago and fell out of favour with the Bangladesh team management after a slow 70-ball 47 in a T20I in November 2015. He hasn’t…