Month: February 2018

Wessels: South Africa and Australia can compete in each other’s backyard (2:13) Kepler Wessels looks back at the history of South Africa and Australia in Tests and how they have often won in each other’s backyard (2:13) 8:44 AM ET Firdose Moonda in Durban Getting his mind, not his finger, ready is South African captain Faf du Plessis‘ main focus ahead of the four-Test series against Australia. Du Plessis has…

3:00 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Khelaghar Samaj Kallyan Samity beat Kalabagan Krira Chakra by 15 runs in a hard-fought contest in the Dhaka Premier League at the Shere Bangla National Stadium. Chasing 239 to win, Kalabagan found themselves teetering at 34 for 7 in the 11th over. Robiul Islam and Hasan Mahmud had taken out Mohammad Ashraful, Waliul Karim, Akbar-ur-Rehman, Tasamul Haque and Mahmudul Hasan to leave Kalabagan 14 for…

6:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Corey Anderson, the New Zealand allrounder, will return to Somerset for this season’s Vitality Blast. Anderson has not played since suffering a stress fracture while with Somerset last year but is hoping to return to action during the latter part of the New Zealand domestic season. Having made 81 off 45 balls on debut for Somerset at The Oval last July, Anderson only managed three…

3:00 AM ET Big Picture In international cricket, the home-ground advantage is everything, right? Not when it comes to South Africa and Australia. When these two teams meet, they turn conventional wisdom on its head. Or, to be more accurate, the conventional wisdom now has an accepted exception: in battles between Australia and South Africa, the visitors should start as favourites. The past three series in Australia have all been…

5:43 AM ET Danyal Rasool Last year’s PSL spot-fixing scandal has claimed yet another scalp, with Shahzaib Hasan handed a one-year ban after falling foul of the PCB’s anti-corruption code. Shahzaib was found guilty on two counts of breaching Clause 2.4.4, which deals with a failure to disclose corrupt approaches, and one count of Clause 2.4.5, which concerns the failure to report any incident a player is aware of that…

5:17 AM ET Ben Stokes felt “emotional” as he walked off the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui with an unbeaten 63 to his name, which helped steer England to a series-levelling victory, having been determined not to let his team-mates down on his return. Five months ago he walked off the County Ground at Bristol with a half-century and England later won that match against West Indies. Subsequent events meant…

3:00 AM ET Queensland 342 & 8 for 285 dec (Labuschagne 62, Peirson 51*, Winter 3-55) beat South Australia 162 & 347 (Carey 98, Head 85, Doggett 5-77) by 118 runs Brendan Doggett finished with four wickets in the first innings Chris Hyde/Getty Images A five-wicket haul from emerging paceman Brendan Doggett helped Queensland move well clear at the top of the Sheffield Shield table after a 118-run win over South…

Play 01:22 Wessels: South Africa will target Smith and Warner Australia will take the same team that lifted the Ashes urn in Sydney seven weeks ago into the first Test against South Africa, for a series the captain Steven Smith believes can be the making of numerous younger members of his side. It was in the corresponding Test four years ago in Centurion that Smith and Shaun Marsh sculpted centuries…