2:12 PM ET Sikandar Raza was Zimbabwe’s unlikely bowling hero on the third day at Queens Sports Club. After his fighting first-innings 80, Raza picked up his maiden Test five-for and said he was both proud and humbled by the achievement. West Indies opener Kieran Powell believes it is “definitely advantage Windies” after they ended the third day with a lead of 48 runs in Bulawayo. “If we could stretch…
Luke Procter has chosen a new challenge at Northants © Getty Images Luke Procter has signed a three-year deal with Northamptonshire following a successful loan period at the end of last season. Procter joins from Lancashire where he has spent the entirety of his career having graduated from Lancashire’s Academy. He topped the batting averages for Lancashire when they claimed the title in 2011, the season after making the first…
12:13 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Silverwood, Essex’s head coach, is set to be appointed as the successor to Ottis Gibson as England’s bowling coach. According to reports, Silverwood will take up the role full time from January, with Shane Bond already in place as bowling consultant for the Ashes. Silverwood has enjoyed two successful years in charge at Chelmsford, leading the club to their first Championship title in 25…
11:51 AM ET Sidharth Monga in Delhi After the second ODI, in which Colin Munro was bowled by a Bhuvneshwar Kumar slower ball, Munro was a little lost. Munro had been part of an experiment New Zealand cricket had undertaken to find a way to beat India with the limited experience they had of playing high-quality spin. They took one of their best batsmen of spin in recent times, Tom…
West Indies 374 for 7 (Dowrich 75*, Holder 71, Raza 5-82) lead Zimbabwe 326 (Masakadza 147, Raza 80, Moor 52, Roach 3-44, Gabriel 2-64) by 48 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details © AFP Sikandar Raza cut through West Indies to register his first five-wicket haul in professional cricket, but Jason Holder and Shane Dowrich combined to put on an unbroken 144-run eighth-wicket stand to give the visitors a 48-run first innings…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand women 240 for 9 (Devine 103, Bates 36, Mir 3-33) beat Pakistan women 232 (Javeria 55, Nahida 51) by eight runsFull scorecard and ball-by-ball details Sophie Devine clobbers a sweep over the midwicket boundary Getty Images With 24 runs to win off 28 balls, Pakistan suffered a dramatic lower-order collapse, losing their last five wickets for just 15 runs to fold for 232, falling…
10:36 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya Angelo Mathews will be fit for Sri Lanka’s tour of India in November, while Kusal Perera and Asela Gunaratne are also expected to return to the national set-up. Sri Lanka Cricket expects to announce a new head coach by the end of the year, though it is unlikely to happen prior to Sri Lanka’s upcoming tour of India in November. SLC confirmed that they were…
© AFP Big Picture Winning a Test requires sustained periods of skill. ODIs can be won through an exceptional performance, with bat or ball. But in T20s, a play – a run-out, a well-executed yorker or a cameo – can change a game. Teams focus on maximising available resources to produce, or limit, extra runs since the margins are finer. New Zealand have used that approach right from the format’s…
8:59 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Previous season: Knockout phase Big picture Chittagong Vikings will be targeting a better finish than last year when they reached the Eliminator, only to be defeated by Rajshahi Kings by three wickets. They will attempt to do this with a completely revamped side that has only three out of the 19 who appeared last season. Misbah-ul-Haq and Luke Ronchi are their senior overseas players with…
Tea West Indies 288 for 7 (Dowrich 36* Holder 25*, Raza 5-61) trail Zimbabwe 326 by 38 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details © AFP An electric bowling performance from Sikandar Raza kept West Indies to 288 for 7 at tea on the third day at Queens Sports Club, 38 runs short of Zimbabwe’s effort in the first dig. Raza tore through West Indies’ batting with 5 for 61 – his…