3:00 AM ET England 307 (Bairstow 101, Wood 52, Southee 6-62, Boult 4-87) and 7 for 0 lead New Zealand 278 (Watling 85, Broad 6-54) by 36 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Stuart Broad finished with figures of 6 for 54, but a combative morning’s batting allowed New Zealand’s lower order to reduce their first-innings deficit to a manageable 29. Tim Southee posted his first Test half-century since 2014 before Neil…
3:00 AM ET New Zealand 278 (Watling 85, Broad 6-54) trail England 307 (Bairstow 101, Wood 52, Southee 6-62, Boult 4-87) by 29 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Stuart Broad finished with figures of 6 for 54, but a combative morning’s batting allowed New Zealand’s lower order to reduce their first-innings deficit to a manageable 29. Tim Southee posted his first Test half-century since 2014 before Neil Wagner and Trent Boult…
2:15 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Devendra Bundela, the Madhya Pradesh batsman and most capped cricketer in Ranji Trophy history, has announced his retirement, bringing to an end a 22-year first-class career. The 41-year old Bundela’s last match remains MP’s 2017-18 Ranji Trophy quarterfinal clash that was won by Delhi. Bundela breached the 10000-run mark in first-class cricket in that match. Bundela first rose to prominence as a member of the…
© AFP Quinton de Kock missed a stumping late on the second day of the ongoing Wanderers Test, but he had a good reason. De Kock was stung by a bee as he attempted to collect the ball and let Shaun Marsh, who was on 15 at the time, off the hook. Marsh had come down the pitch to drive a Keshav Maharaj ball that beat his outside edge and…
3:00 AM ET Tea South Africa 488 all out (Markram 152, Bavuma 95, Maharaj 45, Cummins 5-93) v AustraliaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details 0:41 Temba Bavuma was stranded five runs short of a century as South Africa continued to dominate on the second day in Johannesburg. South Africa started the morning on 313 for 6 and Bavuma along with the lower order frustrated Australia, adding 175 for the last four…
10:20 AM ET Geoffrey Toyana has been removed as Lions head coach and redeployed as High Performance Coach after two tough seasons in which the franchise won no silverware. Toyana, who was heavily touted to take over from Russell Domingo as national head coach earlier this summer, won four trophies in his first three seasons in charge, but the closet has been barren since, as Lions have faced immense pressure…
Irfan Pathan is a picture of concentration as he collects the ball © BCCI Irfan Pathan, the former India allrounder, has taken up a new role, that of player-cum-mentor of the Jammu & Kashmir side for the 2018-2019 domestic season. The 33-year-old has played for Baroda right through his Ranji Trophy career, but was dropped and removed as captain after two matches of the 2017-18 domestic season, in which he…
3:00 AM ET Tea South Africa 488 all out (Markram 152, Bavuma 95, Maharaj 45, Cummins 5-93) v AustraliaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Temba Bavuma acknowledges the crowd after getting to fifty AFP Temba Bavuma was stranded five runs short of a century as South Africa continued to dominate on the second day in Johannesburg. South Africa started the morning on 313 for 6 and Bavuma along with the lower order…
8:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI has appointed Ajit Singh, a former DGP of Rajasthan, as the head of its Anti-Corruption Unit ahead of the 2018 IPL season. Neeraj Kumar, the former police commissioner of Delhi, has been retained as Advisor for the unit till March 31, 2018. According to a BCCI release, Singh retired from his role as DGP in the Rajasthan Police in November 2017 and has…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture The series between the top-ranked team playing at home and a West Indian team without its key players doesn’t have much by way of intrigue in it. Since the PSL final, the hype, the excitement, clamour for tickets, mayhem on the streets, overwhelming security and crazy marketing campaigns have all been toned down. It’s not about the revival of international cricket so much as its…