1:52 PM ET Hamilton Masakadza and Peter Moor‘s 142-run stand revived Zimbabwe on the first day of the second Test in Bulawayo, but while Masakadza was pleased to finally convert a good start, Moor was surprised to be batting at all. “It was great to manage to convert,” Masakadza said, who made scores of 42 and 57 in the first Test. “I had been thinking about those starts [in the…
© Getty Images The manner of Anil Kumble‘s exit as India coach and how the entire captain-coach saga played out in public view was both “unfortunate” and unfair to the former India captain, according to his former colleague Rahul Dravid. He also conceded that players were invariably more powerful than coaches, and any power-struggle inevitably resulted in the favour of the players. Kumble stepped down immediately after the Champions Trophy…
1:24 PM ET West Indies coach Stuart Law praised his seamers for a strong early effort in “arctic conditions” at the start of the second Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. While the mercury was as high as 38 degrees Celsius earlier this week, temperatures plummeted in the days before the game and dropped as low as 13 degrees today. “In these conditions, it doesn’t matter where you’re from, it’s hard…
3:00 AM ET Pakistan 180 for 3 (Malik 51, Amin 45) beat Sri Lanka 144 for 9 (Shanaka 54, Amir 4-13) by 36 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Shoaib Malik is down on one knee as he carves a full-length delivery over cover Getty Images Shoaib Malik scorched his way to a 23-ball fifty, Mohammad Amir scythed through Sri Lanka’s chase to claim his best T20 figures, and Pakistan gave a raucous…
© Getty Images The manner of Anil Kumble‘s exit as India coach and how the entire captain-coach saga played out in public view was both “unfortunate” and unfair to the former India captain, according to his former colleague Rahul Dravid. He also conceded that players were invariably more powerful than coaches, and any power-struggle inevitably resulted in the favour of the players. Kumble stepped down immediately after the Champions Trophy…
12:22 PM ET Umar Farooq Thilanga Sumathipala, Sri Lanka Cricket’s president, has vowed to support Pakistan in their bid to host top-flight cricket on a regular basis. He was speaking at a media conference in Lahore, during Sri Lanka’s short visit for the third T20I. “Since we have experienced more than 30 years of war, we know what isolation means,” Sumathipala said. “We have gone through more than 30 years…
3:00 AM ET India 337 for 6 (Rohit 147, Kohli 113, Santner 2-58) beat New Zealand 331 for 7 (Munro 75, Latham 65, Williamson 64, Bumrah 3-47, Chahal 2-47) by six runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli had a lot of fun in the middle BCCI Elation, after a seventh straight bilateral ODI series win, for India. Heartbreak for a New Zealand side that has been among the…
3:00 AM ET South Africa 224 for 4 (Miller 101*, Shakib 2-22) beat Bangladesh 141 (Sarkar 44, Duminy 2-23) by 83 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details David Miller raises his bat after smashing a century of only 35 balls AFP David Miller smashed the fastest T20I century off 35 balls, beating countryman Richard Levi by 10 deliveries, to take South Africa to a series win and a historic clean-sweep across all formats…
11:59 AM ET Umar Farooq Thilanga Sumathipala, Sri Lanka Cricket’s president, has vowed to support Pakistan in their bid to host top-flight cricket on a regular basis. He was speaking at a media conference in Lahore, during Sri Lanka’s short visit for the third and final T20I. “Since we have experienced more than 30 years of war, we know what isolation means,” he said. “We have gone through more than…
3:00 AM ET Zimbabwe 169 for 4 (Masakadza 101*, Moor 52, Roach 2-24) v West IndiesScorecard and ball-by-ball details Hamilton Masakadza pierces the off side AFP Hamilton Masakadza‘s fifth Test century carried Zimbabwe back into the match on a rainy first day at Queens Sports Club. Masakadza shared a 142-run partnership with PJ Moor to help the hosts recover from the depths of 14 for 3, Kemar Roach and Shannon Gabriel…