5:18 AM ET Big Picture A month after arriving in New Zealand, West Indies are still in search of a win on the tour. They were blanked 2-0 in the Tests and have already conceded the ODIs 2-0 with a game to go. These performances are indicative of what has largely been a forgettable 2017 for the team. West Indies have lost 15 out of the 21 ODIs they’ve played…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff SNGPL 259 (Iftikhar 73, Rizwan 42, Wahab 4-61) and 268 (Iftikhar 106, Rizwan 91) beat WAPDA 271 (Kamran Akmal 67, Adnan Raees 65, Abbas 4-57) and 153 (Mansoor 38, Sajjad 38, Samiullah Khan 8-62) by 103 runsScorecard Mohammad Hafeez walks off unbeaten on 97 Getty Images SNGPL beat WAPDA by 103 runs to clinch their third Quaid-e-Azam trophy title in four years. The hard work had…
This series has been a turnaround for me – Unadkat (2:19) Jaydev Unadkat speaks about how the T20 series against Sri Lanka helped him regain confidence and how he adds variety to the Indian attack as a left-arm pace bowler (2:19) 2:12 AM ET Arun Venugopal Among India’s biggest strengths in recent times has been how their youngsters have profited from a relatively low-intensity initiation into international cricket before leaving…
© AFP Faf du Plessis has declared himself as having a “60-40” chance of playing the Boxing Day Test against Zimbabwe after picking up a viral infection in the week leading up to the game. Du Plessis had been out of action since late October, when he sustained a back injury against Bangladesh, and took no part in the recently completed domestic T20 competition. Instead, he used the time to…
11:24 PM ET Australia captain Steven Smith admitted that he will have to find a slightly different way to bat after suffering a freakish blow to the hand at training. However, that is just about all Smith wants to change as the hosts chase the first of two wins that can give them a 5-0 Ashes whitewash to reprise those of 2007 and 2014. Given the runs he foresaw on…
© Getty Images Tom Curran‘s competitive streak was a key factor behind the decision to award him a Test debut at the MCG, according to Joe Root. Curran, the 22-year-old son of former Zimbabwe international Kevin, will replace the injured Craig Overton (who has been diagnosed with a fractured rib) in the England side. That means Curran will make his debut in the Boxing Day Test in front of a…
India 139 for 5 (Pandey 32) beat Sri Lanka 135 for 7 (Gunaratne 36, Unadkat 2-15, Siraj 2-25) by five wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details © BCCI For the first time in the series, Sri Lanka were genuinely in the contest. The bounce at the Wankhede Stadium gave their seamers some zip that they couldn’t quite manage to generate in Cuttack and Indore. In defence of 136, they had the rampaging…
Play 01:45 Big Picture Seasons don’t come much more festive for Australia than this 2017-18 summer. The Ashes are once again theirs. They lead the series 3-0 and can dream of a whitewash – another whitewash – against an England side that has disappointed in almost every way. For Steven Smith and his men, ’tis the season to be jolly and the most wonderful time of the year all rolled…
9:10 AM ET Uncapped 21-year-old Blessing Muzarabani, more than two metres tall with the experience of only five first-class matches, has a “strong likelihood” of making his debut for Zimbabwe in the Boxing Day Test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth. Muzarabani bowled 20 overs, conceded 74 runs and took the wickets of Test batsman Temba Bavuma and under-19 international Dayyaan Galiem in the warm-up match against the CSA Invitation…
3:00 AM ET Danyal Rasool WAPDA 271 and 108 for 7 (Mansoor 38, Sajjad 38, Samiullah 5-38) need 149 runs to beat SNGPL 259 and 268 (Iftikhar 106, Rizwan 91) Yasir Shah dismissed Dilruwan Perera for a first-ball duck Getty Images SNGPL were all but guaranteed their third Quaid-e-Azam trophy title in four years after a remarkable second-innings collapse from WAPDA on the fourth day in Karachi. Chasing 257, WAPDA ended…