10:27 PM ET Sidharth Monga in Durban 2:16 Watch all nine wickets that fell in South Africa’s innings against India in Durban It’s the 41st over of the innings, you are bowling on a small ground, there has been a partnership of 66 including a real recent acceleration, and you are hit for a six second ball of the over. This is your second-last over. What do you do? You…
A fan with plenty of US flags © AFP Caribbean Premier League franchise Jamaica Tallawahs is expected to host three of its five designated home matches during the 2018 CPL season in Florida, according to an ESPNcricinfo source with knowledge of the situation. It follows an ESPNcricinfo report from August 2017 which indicated that the Tallawahs’ Florida-based ownership group planned to make more of an effort to establish roots in…
3:00 AM ET 2:49 Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane helped India cruise in a chase of 270 India 270 for 4 (Kohli 112, Rahane 79) beat South Africa 269 for 8 (Du Plessis 120, Morris 37, Kuldeep 3-34) by six wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details He wanted to bat first at the toss. He was then rolling on the floor not laughing when his knee jammed into the Durban outfield. He…
1:17 PM ET Dawid Malan did not break into England’s Test side until shortly after his 30th birthday, but what odds that one day – even if just fleetingly – he might captain England? That thought might have crossed the mind of more than a few people when Middlesex announced that he had been appointed as their new club captain. The need to find Joe Root occasional rest periods will…
12:18 PM ET The Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA) is working proactively to get off the municipal water grid before the Newlands Test against Australia that starts on March 22, as the region’s worst drought in over a century threatens to turn Cape Town’s taps off. The City of Cape Town has earmarked April 12 as Day Zero, when residents will have to queue at 200 water points to receive…
3:00 AM ET 0:25 A top-class innings from South Africa’s captain. He’s had to change gears constantly through this innings, but he’s managed to get the ton in 101 balls. South Africa 269 for 8 (Du Plessis 120, Morris 37, Kuldeep 3-34) v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details With an innings of immense determination, Faf du Plessis ushered South Africa to 269, a total of outstanding proportions on a slow…
3:00 AM ET 0:25 A top-class innings from South Africa’s captain. He’s had to change gears constantly through this innings, but he’s managed to get the ton in 101 balls. South Africa 269 for 8 (Du Plessis 120, Morris 37, Kuldeep 3-34) v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details With an innings of immense determination, Faf du Plessis ushered South Africa to 269, a total of outstanding proportions on a slow…
9:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Daniel Bell-Drummond, Kent’s England Lions batsman, will lead MCC against the County Champions Essex in the annual first-class Champion County Match, which this year is taking place in Barbados. The day/night fixture, regarded as the traditional curtain-raiser to the English county season, but now regularly played overseas, will be played with the pink Dukes ball under floodlights across four days at the Kensington Oval in…
9:33 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hampshire seamers Brad Wheal and Chris Sole have been included in Scotland’s squad for the World Cup qualifiers in Zimbabwe in March. Scott Cameron, the 21-year old allrounder who was part of the squad in the recent tri-series in the UAE, was left out. Kyle Coetzer (capt), Richie Berrington (vice-captain), Matthew Cross, Alasdair Evans, Michael Jones, Michael Leask, Calum MacLeod, George Munsey, Safyaan Sharif, Chris…
8:43 AM ET The Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA) is working proactively to get off the municipal water grid before the Newlands Test against Australia that starts on March 22, as the region’s worst drought in over a century threatens to turn Cape Town’s taps off. The City of Cape Town has earmarked April 12 as Day Zero, when residents will have to queue at 200 water points to receive…