Uganda 215 for 8 (Kayondo 51, Masaba 47, Javed 2-48) beat Denmark 129 all out (Shah 37, Bharaj 32, Mukasa 2-3) by one run via DLS methodScorecard © Peter Della Penna How the tide turns. A day after being demolished, Uganda scripted a comeback only dreams are made of. Demark needed five runs off the final over, with four wickets in hand. Then, they committed hara-kiri as Roger Mukasa, the…
Virat Kohli is heading for England early © BCCI Surrey have confirmed the signing of India’s captain Virat Kohli for the month of June so ending months of anticipation that he would use the county circuit to warm up for the Test series against England. Kohli will become the fourth Test-eligible Indian player in county cricket this year with fellow batsman Cheteshwar Pujara currently at Yorkshire and seamers Ishant Sharma…
3:00 AM ET Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders chose to bowl v Chennai Super Kings Sunil Narine frustrated RCB with a chancy innings BCCI Kolkata Knight Riders captain Dinesh Karthik stuck with the chasing trend and chose to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings in Kolkata. KKR made one change to the side that beat RCB in the previous game, bringing back Rinku Singh for Nitish Rana, suffering from a bad back….
Play 00:46 Not even the upheaval wrought by the Newlands Test stopped Justin Langer from his inexorable path towards the task of coaching Australia, and in many ways it makes the challenge all the more enticing. It also somewhat mirrors the dysfunction into which he entered as Western Australia’s coach back in 2012, after three years as an assistant to the national team. Following Langer’s formal appointment, ESPNcricinfo breaks down…
8:48 AM ET Zimbabwe Cricket has parted ways with their managing director Faisal Hasnain less than a year after he was appointed. Hasnain, a former financial head at the ICC, began the job on May 15 last year and resigned last Friday, citing the failure to qualify for the 2019 World Cup as the major factor. “One of the main objectives that I had set myself was for ZC to…
10:12 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Rachel Priest has joined Wales women as their first-ever overseas signing, ahead of their 2018 English domestic campaign. She will look to spur Wales’ bid for promotion to Division One of both the Women’s County One-Day Championship and the Women’s County T20. Priest, who last played for New Zealand at the 2017 World Cup last June, has played 86 ODIs, scoring 2119…
Justin Langer and Phillip Hughes at training © Getty Images Justin Langer has been named as Australia’s new head coach, just over a month after Darren Lehmann resigned from the job following the ball-tampering scandal that engulfed the Cape Town Test. Langer begins his new role on May 22, for a four-year spell that will see him coach Australia in two Ashes series, and the next 20-over and 50-over World…
Big Picture The previous match these two played became the one of most talked about games this season, after Vinay Kumar faltered in the execution of a yorker that became a full toss that Dwayne Bravo blasted it into the stands to win it. That match itself was high-scoring and some of the questions it prompted have remained the same. How these sides address them will likely determine the winner…
© Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/ AFP Lasith Malinga has missed his first match of Sri Lanka’s Super Provincial one-day tournament, a day after Sri Lanka cricket reiterated that he must play domestic cricket to be considered for national selection. He had been named in Dambulla’s squad, but has not joined the side, and has instead remained with IPL franchise Mumbai Indians, for whom he is a bowling mentor. Despite his absence from…
Denmark 179 (Zameer 44, Hamid 37, Pavandeep 3-24, Wafiq 3-32) beat Malaysia 146 (Bashir 3-24, Hamid 2-18) by 33 runs Captain Hamid Shah roars after Denmark clinches victory © Peter Della Penna Denmark captain Hamid Shah stood out with both bat and ball as his team defended 179 to remain unbeaten and hand Malaysia their first defeat of the WCL Division Four. He struck 37 off 78 balls, anchoring the…