Month: March 2018

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka posted their first home win in a T20I against Pakistan, as spinners Shashikala Siriwardene (4 for 9) and Sugandika Kumari (2 for 15) bowled the visitors out for 72 in Colombo. The victory was Sri Lanka’s largest in terms of balls remaining, with 34 of them left unused when Siriwardene hit the winning runs. Pakistan were 37 for 1 in the eighth over…

3:00 AM ET Lunch: South Africa 88 for 1 (Markram 53*, Amla 13*) v AustraliaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Aiden Markram lets one go AFP Considering the events that unfolded over the past week, it was an unusually quiet morning for Australia, literally and otherwise. The fallout of the ball-tampering chaos was at its worst on the fourth day of the Cape Town Test, but ensuing incidents seemed to have only…

5:59 AM ET Zimbabwe’s coaching staff have until 3pm local time on Friday to resign or be sacked by the board following an unsuccessful World Cup qualifying campaign. ESPNcricinfo has verified the ultimatum but has yet to confirm whether the staff will stand out or wait for their bosses to fire them. One way or another, all are set to lose their jobs. It has also been reported in the…

4:39 AM ET Mark Wood praised the role played by Jonny Bairstow in making batting “fun” as the pair staged a significant fightback for England on the opening day in Christchurch. Wood, recalled for this match in place of Craig Overton, joined Bairstow with England tottering on 164 for 7 with seemingly a longer tail having also dropped Chris Woakes. He proceeded to make his maiden Test fifty, dominating an…

3:54 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A “tibial bone stress in his right leg” has ruled Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc out of the fourth Test, against South Africa, and the IPL starting April 7 in Mumbai. Starc will fly home after the Johannesburg Test for further assessment. Starc’s injury handed a Test debut to Chadd Sayers on Friday, which was the fourth change in the Australia XI with Steven Smith,…

3:00 AM ET Tea England 150 for 5 (Stokes 25*, Bairstow 30*) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details First the good news for England’s beleaguered Test cricketers. After losing the toss and being made to bat first for the second time in this two-Test series, they laid the ghosts of their humiliating 58-all-out in Auckland last week, by more than doubling that total in the space of two sessions…

Will England arrest their poor Test form? (2:12) Mark Butcher look at the problems facing an England Test team struggling for results, ahead of their second Test against New Zealand (2:12) Mar 28, 2018 Tea England 150 for 5 (Stokes 25*, Bairstow 30*) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details First the good news for England’s beleaguered Test cricketers. After losing the toss and being made to bat first for…

Will England arrest their poor Test form? (2:12) Mark Butcher look at the problems facing an England Test team struggling for results, ahead of their second Test against New Zealand (2:12) Mar 28, 2018 England 70 for 2 (Stoneman 28*, Root 20*) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details First the good news for England’s beleaguered Test cricketers. After losing the toss and being made to bat first for the…

6:08 PM ET George Dobell Harry Podmore is expected to agree a move to Kent within the next few days. The seamer, signed to Middlesex but frequently on loan elsewhere, has struggled for opportunities amid a strong coterie of fast bowlers at Lord’s but has been courted by several counties in recent months and can be expected to feature prominently in the Kent side. ESPNcricinfo understands he has agreed a…