1:45 AM ET Jonny Bairstow has fought tooth and nail to establish himself as a white-ball cricketer for England, but it’s his Test career that will leave a legacy. After seemingly forever being around one-day squads with just the occasional appearances to show for his efforts, Bairstow is now forging a role as opener in the 50-over side. The early results have been impressive with 543 runs in 13 innings…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture We now have a best-of-three one-day series. If there was any venue in the country where New Zealand could go to try and wrestle back the advantage, it would probably be the Westpac – or the Cake Tin as it is known. England have played four ODIs here and never come close to winning one. The most recent of those matches was three years ago…
3:00 AM ET Danyal Rasool 0:50 Anwar Ali smashed Wahab Riaz for a six over deep midwicket only to realise his back heel crashed into the base of off stump Peshawar Zalmi 143 for 5 (Tamim 36, Sammy 16*) beat Quetta Gladiators 141 for 8 (Watson 47, Wahab 2-16, Asif 2-18) by five wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details In a nutshell Darren Sammy doesn’t need to lift a finger to guarantee…
1:54 PM ET Nagraj Gollapudi Lendl Simmons and Martin Guptill fetched the biggest bids while Kieron Pollard was the biggest transfer in the CPL draft on Thursday in London. Simmons and Guptill, along with the quartet of Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo and Sohail Tanvir, were paid the maximum price of USD 160,000 by their franchises. Having been released by the Jamaica Tallawahs, Simmons put himself up for a…
1:08 PM ET Nagraj Gollapudi Lendl Simmons and Martin Guptill fetched the biggest bids while Kieron Pollard was the biggest transfer in the CPL draft on Thursday in London. Simmons and Guptill, along with the quartet of Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo and Sohail Tanvir, were paid the maximum price of USD 160,000 by their franchises. Having been released by the Jamaica Tallawahs, Simmons put himself up for a…
12:43 PM ET Ben Stokes‘ position as England’s Test vice-captain will be discussed in the next couple of weeks, following his return to international cricket. Stokes was not stripped of the title in the wake of the incident in Bristol last September that led to him being charged with affray to which he pleaded not-guilty last month. James Anderson took over the role for the Ashes in Stokes’ absence, but…
11:15 AM ET Australia’s vice-captain David Warner revealed a heart-to-heart conversation with his embattled opening partner Cameron Bancroft after the younger man’s swift dismissal on the first morning of the Durban Test match, in a manner that suggested a mind working overtime to find answers to the vexing questions posed at international level. Having been retained in the Australia side despite an underwhelming Ashes campaign in which technical faults around…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Spinners Nikita Miller (5 for 20) and Ashley Nurse (2 for 21) rescued West Indies after yet another batting collapse, helping bowl UAE out for 83 in a chase of 116 at the Harare Sports Club. With this performance coming close on the heels of a chastening defeat to Afghanistan, West Indies will worry about their form leading up to the tournament proper, which begins…
3:00 AM ET Australia 225 for 5 (Smith 56, Warner 51) v South AfricaScorecard and ball-by-ball details It wasn’t exactly a whimper, but neither was it much of a bang. Perhaps low-key is the best way to describe the opening day of the series at Kingsmead. Durbanites didn’t flock to the venue, and what the vast majority of the city missed was a couple of half-centuries from Steven Smith and…
3:00 AM ET Lunch Australia 95 for 3 (Smith 24*) v South AfricaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details South Africa picked off three wickets in the opening session at Kingsmead after Steven Smith chose to bat, but Smith’s continued presence at the crease at lunch meant Australia still had hope of posting a healthy first-innings total. Smith was unbeaten on 24 as Australia went to the break on 95 for 3,…