3:00 AM ET Vidarbha 206 for 4 (Fazal 67, Jaffer 61*) trail Delhi 295 (Shorey 145, Gurbani 6-59) by 89 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Rajneesh Gurbani is mobbed by his team-mates Rajneesh Gurbani When it looked like Delhi would ease past 300 early on the second day, Rajneesh Gurbani stalled them with a hat-trick. When it looked like the Vidarbha openers would stretch their partnership past 100, both fell within the…
3:00 AM ET Sydney Thunder 5 for 166 (Buttler 67, Watson 41, Rose 2-20) beat Hobart Hurricanes 109 (Doolan 34, Archer 25*, Fawad Ahmed 2-14) by 57 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Arjun Nair took 2 for 17 from four overs Getty Images An electric innings from Jos Buttler and some sublime spin bowling from Fawad Ahmed, Arjun Nair and Chris Green saw Sydney Thunder destroy Hobart Hurricanes in Launceston. Buttler smashed…
Nannes: Cook return to form a positive for England (2:58) Melinda Farrell and Dirk Nannes discuss what positives England and Australia can take away from Melbourne going into the fifth Test in Sydney (2:58) 5:51 AM ET Joe Root believes England “outplayed” Australia in Melbourne despite being unable to force victory on the final day. Thwarted by a lifeless pitch and another outstanding display of batting by Steve Smith, in…
4:52 AM ET Jarrod Kimber at the MCG It’s a goddamn beast of a shot. Dale Steyn is steaming in; he’s already been flicked for six. Steyn doesn’t like batsmen when they’re playing and missing, who knows what vicious thoughts are going through his brain after the six. He goes fast at the body, but the body moves back, and slaps – more like a horse whip really – a…
Is Steven Smith one of the best of all time? (2:02) Melinda Farrell and Dirk Nannes discuss Steven Smith’s latest Ashes performance and whether or not he can be called one of the all-time greats (2:02) 4:23 AM ET As Australia ground their way to an MCG stalemate with England on a pitch that possessed qualities of indestructibility on par with a cockroach, the two men at the crease were…
4:15 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sydney Sixers’ captain Moises Henriques has taken a break from the ongoing Big Bash League, with no date set for his return. The seam-bowling allrounder played the first two matches of the season for Sixers before missing the third because of illness. “The Sydney Sixers advise that Moises Henriques will be taking some personal leave from the BBL,” a statement from the team said. “He…
1:58 AM ET A deathly dull MCG pitch for the Boxing Day Test will be reviewed by the Melbourne Cricket Club after the outgoing Cricket Victoria chief executive Tony Dodemaide suggested the ground’s drop-in wicket square was overdue to be dug out and remade from scratch. Only 24 wickets fell over the five days of the Ashes match, with the overall attendance of 262,616 falling about 10,000 short of the…
3:00 AM ET Australia 327 (Warner 103, Smith 76, S Marsh 61, Broad 4-51, Anderson 3-61) and 4 for 263 (Smith 102*, Warner 86) drew with England 491 (Cook 244*, Root 61, Broad 56, Cummins 4-117, Hazlewood 3-95, Lyon 3-109)Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details The Boxing Day Test started as a dead rubber, and by day five rigor mortis had well and truly set in. David Warner scored the slowest…
Kimber: England get tiniest chance of getting a result (0:49) Jarrod Kimber reports from MCG as England got two big wickets of David Warner and Shaun Marsh with Australia having a lead of 14 runs with two session (0:49) 3:00 AM ET Tea Australia 327 and 4 for 225 (Smith 87*, M Marsh 10*) lead England 491 by 61 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details England’s hopes of a consolation victory…
3:00 AM ET Lunch Australia 327 and 4 for 178 (Smith 50*) lead England 491 by 14 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details David Warner crawled to the slowest half-century of his Test career and Australia moved into the lead, but the wickets of Warner and Shaun Marsh gave England’s victory hopes a boost on the final day at the MCG. Marsh edged behind off Stuart Broad for 4 on the…