11:45 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Saad Altaf, the 33-year old Rawalpindi fast bowler, has broken the record for the best bowling figures in first-class cricket in Pakistan. He took eight wickets in each innings against Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy to finish with 16 for 141, bettering Sohail Khan‘s 16 for 189 against Water and Power Development Authority in December 2007. Altaf, playing his 98th first-class match,…
11:36 AM ET Annesha Ghosh With several prominent India women players shifting allegiance from powerhouse Railways, the senior women’s domestic landscape in India is set to witness a change this upcoming season. The Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) commitments of some key players is also likely to force teams to rethink their plans as the BCCI tries to incorporate structural changes in the domestic set-up four months after India finished…
10:34 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Local uncapped talent will constitute only 16% of the total players in the Bangladesh Premier League this season – an all-time low – as a result of the BPL governing council’s decision to allow franchises to field five overseas cricketers in an XI. This is a throwback to the regulations used in 2012 and 2013, although back then the BPL was in its infancy still…
3:00 AM ET Uttar Pradesh 291 and 224 for 7 (Akshdeep Nath 110, Rinku Singh 64, Ishant 3-38) lead Delhi 269 (Shorey 98*, Gambhir 86, Saurabh 4-87, Imtiaz 3-33) by 246 runsScorecard Ishant Sharma is air borne in his follow through PTI Akshdeep Nath followed up his fifty in the first innings with a century to rescue Uttar Pradesh after they had slipped and lost three wickets with only two on…
Moeen absence ‘potentially disastrous’ – Butcher (1:11) Mark Butcher discusses the impact that the absences of both Moeen Ali and Steven Finn will have on the England side ahead of their opening warm-up match in Perth. (1:11) 9:09 AM ET George Dobell in Perth Moeen Ali and Steven Finn have been ruled out of involvement in the first two games of England’s Ashes tour. Scans on the pair have confirmed…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Punjab were on course for their second win of the season after Anmolpreet Singh‘s career-best 267 and Gurkeerat Singh‘s 111 helped set up a declaration on 653 for 9 in Raipur. Having a deficit of 415 to wipe out to avoid an innings defeat, Chhattisgarh were tottering at 128 for 4 in the second innings at stumps on day three, with Sandeep Sharma and Barinder…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mumbai were in sight of their first win this season after reducing Odisha to 93 for 4 in pursuit of 413 in Bhubaneswar. Seamer Akash Parkar dismissed Subhransu Senapati and Deepak Behera off successive deliveries, but captain Govinda Poddar (48*) remained firm at stumps. In the morning, Mumbai were in trouble as they slumped to 84 for 6 in their second innings, losing nightwatchman Dhawal…
Moeen absence ‘potentially disastrous’ – Butcher (1:11) Mark Butcher discusses the impact that the absences of both Moeen Ali and Steven Finn will have on the England side ahead of their opening warm-up match in Perth. (1:11) 9:09 AM ET George Dobell in Perth Moeen Ali and Steven Finn have been ruled out of involvement in the first two games of England’s Ashes tour. Scans on the pair have confirmed…
Moeen absence ‘potentially disastrous’ – Butcher (1:11) Mark Butcher discusses the impact that the absences of both Moeen Ali and Steven Finn will have on the England side ahead of their opening warm-up match in Perth. (1:11) 8:44 AM ET George Dobell in Perth Moeen Ali and Steven Finn have been ruled out of involvement in the first two games of England’s Ashes tour. Scans on the pair have confirmed…
© ESPNcricinfo Ltd A major security breach at the Air Force Sports Complex in Palam allowed a man, who identified himself as Girish Sharma, drive his car onto the field of play and into the pitch during the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh Ranji game at Palam ‘A’ ground in New Delhi on Friday. The man claimed he didn’t see any security and was merely lost, despite what looked like deliberate swerves to…