Month: February 2018

Play 00:44 Manjot Kalra: Fifth batsman to score a ton in an U-19 World Cup final India Under-19 217 for 2 (Kalra 101*, Desai 47*, Gill 31) beat Australia Under-19 216 all out (Merlo 76, Uppal 34, Anukul 2-32, Shiva Singh 2-36) by eight wickets India sauntered to a record fourth Under-19 World Cup title in front of a partisan crowd of 4000 odd at Bay Oval, to finish an…

4:33 AM ET Perth Scorchers captain Elyse Villani has declared the Women’s Big Bash League is ready to be a standalone tournament, separate from the men’s edition, after Cricket Australia agreed it was now time to look beyond the established model that has the semis and final of the two competitions played as double-headers. Plenty of eyebrows were raised by the fact the first-ranked Sydney Sixers and second-placed Sydney Thunder…

3:00 AM ET Innings Sri Lanka 713 for 9 dec. (Mendis 196, Dhananjaya 173, Roshen 109, Taijul 4-219) lead Bangladesh 513 by 200 runs Dinesh Chandimal tucks the ball past short leg Associated Press Three wickets fell in the afternoon session, then two more just after tea, to prompt a Sri Lanka declaration, 200 runs in front. Despite the relative proliferation of dismissals, the cricket was nevertheless dull. Only occasionally did…

‘We won’t worry about the opposition’ – Warner (1:07) T20 captain David Warner says Australia are only focusing on their own performances ahead of the opening game of the tri-series against New Zealand (1:07) 3:00 AM ET Australia have handed a maiden international cap to the dynamic Hurricane Hobarts opener D’Arcy Short, while the wicketkeeper Alex Carey has been given a chance to build on his spirited first appearance during…

2:50 AM ET Scheduling and format complexities make it next to impossible for Cricket Australia to impose a set policy for player availability for the Big Bash League, the tournament’s chief Kim McConnie has admitted. McConnie’s comments came after Travis Head, D’Arcy Short and Alex Carey were released to take part in Sunday’s competition decider in Adelaide, the day after Australia’s opening Twenty20 triangular series match in Sydney against New…

3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 612 for 4 (Chandimal 87*, Dickwella 29*) lead Bangladesh 513 by 99 runs Dinesh Chandimal tucks the ball past short leg Associated Press Roshen Silva completed a maiden Test hundred, and Dinesh Chandimal neared his fifth against Bangladesh, as Sri Lanka’s relentless Chittagong march trod into record-breaking territory. Only four wickets down still, the visitors already have the highest score at this venue. The surface…

1:06 PM ET India’s win at the Wanderers might have seemed like a matter of breaking one partnership in the final innings and running through the rest, but the ” surprising ” dampness on the pitch on the fourth morning left them fuming and made them work much harder for wickets than what they felt was par for the course. A team source told ESPNcricinfo that the pitch on day…

12:34 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has been ruled out of the remaining ODIs against India and the T20s that follow due to a fractured finger. He did damage to the finger – his right index digit – during the first ODI on February 1. He is likely to require three to six weeks’ time to recover, a Cricket South Africa (CSA) statement said. Batsman…