Canterbury have signed England allrounder Ben Stokes as their overseas player. Stokes will be available for selection for Canterbury’s 50-over Ford Trophy match against Otago in Rangiora on Sunday. More to follow… George Dobell is a senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo © ESPN Sports Media Ltd. Source: ESPN Crickinfo
3:00 AM ET Afghanistan 321 for 3 (Ihsanullah 124, Rahmat 103, Naveed 2-52) v UAEScorecard Rahmat Shah and Ihsanullah broke the Afghanistan first-class record for the highest partnership for any wicket by adding 197 Peter Della Penna Back in the late 1990s during The Rock’s heyday with the WWE, he developed one of his trademark promo routines. The Rock would bring out a rival wrestler that he’d most likely be facing…
What’s Ajmal’s favourite cricketing memory? (0:43) And which is the only batsman that Ajmal wanted to dismiss, but could not? Here’s a hint: it’s not Sachin Tendulkar (0:43) 12:13 PM ET With tears in his eyes, a slight tremble in his voice but with nothing to regret, Saeed Ajmal officially brought the curtains down on his international and domestic career, after Faisalabad crashed out of the National T20 Cup following…
3:00 AM ET Comilla Victorians 167 for 6 (Samuels 39, Cooper 3-42) beat Dhaka Dynamites 155 for 8 (Denly 49, Bravo 3-31, Saifuddin 2-18) by 12 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Dwayne Bravo celebrates his return to competitive cricket after eight months CPL Excellent end-overs bowling from Dwayne Bravo and Mohammad Saifuddin ensured Comilla Victorians jumped back to the top of the table with a 12-run win over Dhaka Dynamites in the…
3:00 AM ET Danyal Rasool Lahore Whites beat Faisalabad by 10 runs to qualify for the National T20 Cup final. In an emotion-filled afternoon that turned out to be the last of Saeed Ajmal‘s cricketing career, Lahore posted 142 in their allotted 20 overs. At the time, it seemed to be slightly under par, especially given the platform Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal provided, their opening partnership contributing 69 runs…
10:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Avon and Somerset police have confirmed they have completed their investigation into the incident involving Ben Stokes outside a Bristol nightclub in September and have passed a file onto the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for charging advice. The police also confirmed that a 27-year-old man suffered a fractured eye socket in the incident which occurred outside the Mbargo nightclub in the Clinfon area of the…
Steve Rhodes is accused of a cover-up © Getty Images Worcestershire have been thrown into disarray after a player was accused of rape and the director of cricket put on leave on suspicion of having tried to orchestrate a cover-up. ESPNcricinfo understands that Alex Hepburn, the 21-year-old all-rounder, has been charged with two counts of with rape on November 9 while Steve Rhodes, the club’s long-serving director of cricket, has…
Play 02:57 Arnold: Thisara as captain is exciting Thisara Perera will lead Sri Lanka’s ODI and T20I teams in India next month*. It will be the 28-year old allrounder’s first experience of the role in 50-over international cricket, though he was in charge of a depleted T20I side that took on Pakistan at Gaddafi Stadium last month. Thisara will be the seventh man to captain Sri Lanka in 2017, following…
Stokes going to New Zealand was news for us – Woakes (1:57) Chris Woakes said the team had no idea of Ben Stokes traveling to New Zealand to play domestic cricket but added it did put him closer to Australia (1:57) 8:13 AM ET The Canterbury cricket board has held an emergency meeting in Christchurch as protests broke out about the prospect of Ben Stokes returning to action this weekend….
7:48 AM ET Sidharth Monga in Delhi Proceedings at the Supreme Court’s hearings into the BCCI’s new constitution took a bizarre sidestep on Wednesday, after the board treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry was asked by the court to respond to a complaint that he threatened a board official on two occasions. The complaint was made in writing – according to the amicus curiae Gopal Subramaniam – by the BCCI’s chief financial officer…