3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Punjab 57 for 1 (Jiwanjot 40*) trail Chhattisgarh 238 (Vishal 76, Saxena 52, Ruikar 50, Gony 4-41) by 181 runsScorecard Manpreet Gony and Harbhajan Singh celebrate taking a wicket Fotocorp A brutal new-ball spell from Manpreet Gony reduced Chhattisgarh to 35 for 5 – their run-rate was barely over 1 – but the lower order mounted a fine rearguard to lift the total up to a…
Chris Nash will line up for Notts next season © Getty Images Chris Nash has signed for Nottinghamshire after begin released from his contract by Sussex last week. The 34-year-old has signed a three-year deal to play at Trent Bridge. Nash’s departure at Sussex was followed by that of the head coach, Mark Davis, after a difficult season in which the south-coast county failed to achieve promotion. Nash will be…
Getting drunk is the best form of team bonding – KP (1:45) In an exclusive interview with ESPN, Kevin Pietersen says if he was coach he would allow the players freedom to go and ‘do what you want, but don’t get caught. (1:45) 6:41 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Trevor Bayliss, England’s head coach, has confirmed that there will be no curfews imposed on his players during the forthcoming Ashes, but…
3:00 AM ET Innings West Indies 448 (Holder 110, Dowrich 103, Powell 90, Raza 5-99) lead Zimbabwe 326 by 122 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 contributions from Jason Holder and Shane Dowrich put West Indies in a virtually unassailable position on the fourth morning in Bulawayo. Together they added 212, the…
Jason Holder hit Yasir Shah for a big six over long-off in the last over of the day 3:00 AM ET Record contributions from Jason Holder and Shane Dowrich put West Indies in a virtually unassailable position on the fourth morning in Bulawayo. Together they added 212, the most by an eighth-wicket pair for West Indies. Holder’s century was his second in Tests, and the first by a West Indies…
4:27 AM ET Western Australia have taken the extraordinary step of dropping Ashes prospect Nathan Coulter-Nile from the Sheffield Shield squad to instead lead an invitational XI against Joe Root’s Englishmen in their first tour match. Fellow Test contender Marcus Stoinis has also been ruled out of the Shield match for personal reasons, meaning he will be unable to stake his international claims in the final match before the Gabba…
2:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A century from Stephen Murdoch, coupled with Hamish Bennett‘s seven-wicket match haul, propelled Wellington to an innings-and-43-run win over Otago inside three days of the Plunket Shield game at Basin Reserve. Wellington’s win amounted to Otago’s second consecutive loss this year, having finished at the bottom of the table last season. Wellington’s offensive with the ball helped them snipe out 15 wickets on the second…
2:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A century from Stephen Murdoch, coupled with Hamish Bennett‘s seven-wicket match haul, propelled Wellington to an innings-and-43-run win over Otago inside three days of the Plunket Shield game at Basin Reserve. Wellington’s win amounted to Otago’s second consecutive loss this year, having finished at the bottom of the table last season. Wellington’s offensive with the ball helped them snipe out 15 wickets on the second…
12:42 AM ET Not many job candidates get the chance to duel face-to-face with their prospective boss, but that’s more or less exactly the scenario that confronted fast bowler Chadd Sayers in Adelaide when bowling to the Australia captain Steven Smith in a Sheffield Shield match last week. Sayers now believes a striking spell to defeat Smith should hold him in good stead for selection discussions during an Ashes summer…