Month: March 2018

Mar 2, 2018 England 234 (Morgan 48, Sodhi 3-53) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details On a very poor drop-in wicket, which commentator Mark Richardson said smelt like cowpat at the toss and displayed uneven bounce throughout, England battled their way to 234, anchored around a stand of 71 between Eoin Morgan and Ben Stokes, supplemented by contributions down the order. The Westpac pitches have been a talking point…

3:24 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Shakib Al Hasan has been ruled out of Bangladesh’s Nidahas Trophy campaign, as he still hasn’t recovered from his finger injury. Mahmudullah will continue to lead the Bangladesh T20 team in his absence while Liton Das has replaced him in the squad. Shakib injured the little finger on his left hand during the ODI tri-series final on January 27 and missed the Test and T20…

3:00 AM ET England 234 (Morgan 48, Sodhi 3-53) v New ZealandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details On a very poor drop-in wicket, which commentator Mark Richardson said smelt like cowpat at the toss and displayed uneven bounce throughout, England battled their way to 234, anchored around a stand of 71 between Eoin Morgan and Ben Stokes, supplemented by contributions down the order. The Westpac pitches have been a talking point…

All you need to know about the World Cup Qualifiers (1:41) Ten teams will battle it out for two World Cup spots over the next few weeks in Zimbabwe (1:41) 10:55 PM ET Nagraj Gollapudi For the first time ever, the ICC is set to broadcast matches from its World Cup qualifier event. Ten of the 34 games have been earmarked, including all of the Super Six stage and the…

3:00 AM ET Toss New Zealand won the toss and decided to bowl against England Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details England will need to judge what a defendable total is at the Westpac after they were put into bat by the returning Kane Williamson. They have a woeful ODI record at this ground, four huge defeats, including the World Cup thrashing against New Zealand when Tim Southee bundled them out…

Lahore Qalandars 121 all out (Salman 48, McCullum 34) tied Islamabad United 121 for 9 (JP Duminy 34, Yasir 3-20) Islamabad won in a Super Over In a nutshell Last night’s billing for the contest between Peshawar and Quetta as the game of the tournament looks horribly premature now. In a T20 contest that had more ebbs and flows than most Test matches, Islamabad United edged out Lahore Qalandars, after…

1:00 PM ET George Dobell James Anderson has admitted he fears for the future of Test cricket as players and spectators favour the shorter formats. While Anderson, a veteran of 134 Tests, insists a career as a T20 specialist would never have appealed to him, he concedes younger players could be seduced by a format of the game that is, as he puts it, “easier on the body and brain…

12:54 PM ET AB de Villiers has defended his team-mates, whose nine wickets fell for 91 runs, leaving his contribution of 71 not out as the only score of significance on an otherwise humbling scorecard. While de Villiers conceded that “the deficit (of 189) looks really bad,” he maintained that South Africa were “not far off,” matching Australia’s skill set and hoped they can pull off “something special,” in the…

3:00 AM ET South Africa 162 (De Villiers 71*, Starc 5-34, Lyon 3-50) trail Australia 351 (M Marsh 96, Smith 56, Warner 51, Maharaj 5-123, Philander 3-59) by 189 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details This was the reason South Africa picked an extra batsman. Australia’s attack, led by Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon, systematically dismantled South Africa’s batting order on the second day in Durban; such was Australia’s complete dominance that…