Steven Smith wants to reopen England’s Ashes scars (1:18) In this Ashes, Australia’s captain wants the members of England’s squad to get flashbacks of the 2013-14 series in which his side ruthlessly dominated them throughout (1:18) 12:25 PM ET Australia’s captain Steven Smith has declared he wants to re-open English scars from the 2013-14 Ashes, placing a premium on a telling blow in the first Test of the summer at…
© BCB Nazmul Hassan is the first BCB president to serve a second term after the board’s directors chose him to be chief for the next four years. It was a straightforward choice as he was the only candidate among the 22 directors, though the scenes at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur suggested something else. There were at least 15,000 people who turned up to celebrate Hassan’s win…
© AFP Asela Gunaratne‘s haul of four trophies at SLC’s Annual Cricket Awards provided a timely reminder of the calibre of talent that has been sidelined by injury in recent months, while Rangana Herath took home the night’s biggest award when he was feted as cricketer of the year. The 39-year-old left-arm spinner was also – unsurprisingly – named Test bowler of the year. The period under consideration, from June…
3:00 AM ET Toss: New Zealand chose to bowl v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Shreyas Iyer plays a cut shot during his 41 Cricket Australia/Getty Images New Zealand captain Kane Williamson chose to bowl with “quite a bit of dew around” at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. India captain Virat Kohli said he would have bowled first as well. India strengthened their bowling attack by fielding five specialist bowlers,…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Prithvi Shaw’s 105, his second successive hundred and fourth in five first-class games, helped Mumbai begin strongly against Odisha before three quick wickets in the final session reduced them to 264 for 6 in Bhubaneshwar. Put into bat, Mumbai lost Akhil Herwadkar in the sixth over after he was bowled by seamer Basant Mohanty. However, Shaw steadied things in the company of Ajinkya Rahane (49,…
3:00 AM ET Lunch Zimbabwe 8 for 2 (Roach 2-1) and 326 trail West Indies 448 (Holder 110, Dowrich 103, Powell 90, Raza 5-99) by 114 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Jason Holder hit Yasir Shah for a big six over long-off in the last over of the day AFP Record-making contributions from Jason Holder and Shane Dowrich put West Indies in a virtually unassailable position on the fourth morning in…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cheteshwar Pujara‘s unbeaten ton powered Saurashtra to 341 for 5 after they elected to bat first against Jharkhand at the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground in Rajkot. Pujara’s 42nd first-class hundred ended a spell that saw him go without a half-century in his last ten innings. Coming into bat at the fall of opener Robin Uthappa in the 11th over, Pujara faced 223 balls during the…
Maharashtra (Tripathi 120, Shaikh 69, Vinay 6-59) v Karnataka (Samarth 47, Agarwal 50)Scorecard © PTI Group A table-toppers Karnataka continued their impressive showing this season with an emphatic bowling display – led by Vinay Kumar‘s six-for – as they successfully countered a brisk century from Maharashtra’s Rahul Tripathi. Vinay, the Karnataka captain, backed up his decision to bowl in Pune, chipping away at opposition line-up to leave them at 28…
3:00 AM ET Uttar Pradesh 270 for 8 (Saif 83, Nath 59, Upendra 48*, Ishant 2-27, Saini 2-37) v DelhiScorecard Ishant Sharma exults after taking a wicket Associated Press Ishant Sharma’s decision to bowl first and the subsequent early dismissals of Uttar Pradesh’s openers in the first session belied a flat pitch at the Palam Ground, where a late surge from Delhi was neutralised by a lower-order counterattack that saw UP…
3:00 AM ET ESPN Staff Openers Sherry and Hari batted sensibly and contributed 14 runs without losing any wicket, but as the game advanced, after Ansar and Qasim’s quick cameo of 9 runs, the later batsmen couldn’t capitalise on the situation to put up a decent total. Renegades fielded superbly, getting batsmen run out in the middle overs. Two wickets were lost in the seventh over off Sagar’s bowling, putting…