3:59 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Bangladesh’s bowling coach Courtney Walsh will brief pace bowlers in a week-long camp on how to prepare for certain match situations. Becoming more consistent and mentally strong are other areas in focus as they prepare for the Nidahas Trophy T20s in March, which involves India and hosts Sri Lanka. The camp started on Friday and will go on until March 2. Bangladesh’s pace bowlers have…
11:01 PM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna The proliferation of T20 franchise leagues has spread further to North America with Cricket Canada’s announcement on Thursday that they have signed a 25-year licensing agreement…
Multan Sultans 152 for 3 (Sangakkara 57, Malik 42*) beat Peshawar Zalmi 151 for 6 (Hafeez 59, Sammy 29, Irfan 2-19) by seven wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details © BCB The one worry people had about Multan Sultans was the absence of enough power hitters, Shoaib Malik‘s men instead topping up on classical batsmen. How fortunate, then, that Sultans kicked off with a chase of 152, ideally suited to their particular…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia 87 for 3 (Bancroft 24*, S Marsh 10*) trail South Africa A 220 (de Bruyn 46, Cummins 4-32, Hazlewood 3-40) by 133 runsScorecard Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc celebrate Australia’s Ashes win Getty Images and Cricket Australia A much anticipated series, especially for fans of fast bowling, kicked off in style as Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc began their…
© WICB Media/Ashley Allen Photo Imagine you were a professional cricketer. Now imagine you had to share your dressing room with… your father. And, on top of that, your dad is a legend of your sport. A lot to handle? Doesn’t quite seem to be the case with Tagenarine Chanderpaul, who shares the Guyana dressing room with his father Shivnarine. Chanderpaul junior, 21, jokes that Shiv, 43, “knows how I…
9:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The news over recent days has focused on England players choosing to give up the first-class game, but Surrey’s Stuart Meaker has taken a step in the opposite direction by signing to play for Auckland in the Plunket Shield during March, as part of his preparations for the Championship season. Meaker, who has been capped four times and toured New Zealand with England in 2013,…
9:05 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India and Tamil Nadu opener M Vijay is confident of accomplishing his “dream” of winning the Ranji Trophy for his state before he quits the game. That said, he was “hurt” by the manner in which he was left out of the Tamil Nadu side after he “failed to report” for the Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Mumbai on October 8. After Vijay had apparently…
WATCH – Kraigg Brathwaite’s unbeaten 105 (1:28) Barbados captain Kraigg Brathwaite struck a scintillating unbeaten century off 135 balls to help set up a 13-run win against Kent in the semi-final of the WICB Regional Super50 (1:28) 3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Barbados 263 for 3 (Brathwaite 105*, Chase 81) beat Kent 216 for 8 (Dickson 51) by 13 runs (DLS)Scorecard A century from Kraigg Brathwaite ended Kent’s hopes in…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Abahani Limited continued their hot streak in the Dhaka Premier League, beating Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club by 47 runs in Savar. This was their fifth win in a row and it allowed them to consolidate their place on top of the points table. Batting first, Abahani reached 270 for 7 with Anamul Haque contributing with his eighth List-A century. Anamul made 116 off 122 balls…
6:28 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kenya’s captain Rakep Patel has resigned after the team returned home winless from the WCL Division Two tournament in Namibia. The coach Thomas Odoyo has also stepped down, and so has the board president Jackie Janmohammed. By finishing last out of the six teams that participated, Kenya were demoted to Division Three. Their performance included a 218-run defeat, to UAE, which was the tournament’s worst…