3:00 AM ET Big Picture The ease with which Afghanistan won the series opener on Sunday should set some alarm bells ringing in the Bangladesh camp. Just like that, it’s back to a do-or-die situation as the teams prepare for the second T20I on Tuesday. Bangladesh’s fast bowlers seemed out of their depth, and were somewhat carried along by Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah, who delivered timely wickets. Shakib chose…
4:02 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Graeme Labrooy has been reappointed Sri Lanka’s chief selector for another term along with the majority of his existing panel. The big change is that Asanka Gurusinha, Sri Lanka’s cricket manager, is no longer a selector. Coach Chandika Hathurusingha will function as the selector-on-tour, having performed that role since January. Elsewhere in the panel, former first-class allrounder Sajith Fernando makes way for former seam bowler…
3:33 AM ET George Dobell England allrounder Chris Woakes has been ruled out of the Scotland ODI with tightness in his right quad. Surrey’s Tom Curran comes into the squad in his place. Woakes will be assessed this week to ascertain if he’ll be fit for the Australia series, which starts on June 13. England play Scotland in a one-off ODI in Edinburgh on June 10. More to follow Source:…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India women 132 for 4 (Meshram 32, Mandhana 29, Liengprasert 2-16) beat Thailand women 66 for 8 (Boochatham 21, Harmanpreet 3-11, Deepti 2-16) by 66 runsScorecard Harmanpreet Kaur plays a glance down the leg side Getty Images India rested Mithali Raj, their highest run-scorer from Sunday, experimented with their batting order and yet walked away comfortable winners. They posted 132 for 4 before Thailand huffed and…
David Warner at his first press conference a week after the ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town 1:38 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff David Warner will join his former captain Steven Smith at the Global T20 Canada later this month, marking a return to the game for the high-profile Australian duo. The ex-Australia vice-captain and captain were banned from official international and domestic cricket for 12 months by Cricket Australia in March,…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Bangladesh women 96 for 3 (Shamina 31, Nigar 31*, Fahima 23*) beat Pakistan women 95 for 5 (Mir 21*, Javeria 18, Nahida 2-23) by seven wicketsScorecard Rumana Ahmed: “The self-belief can develop only when we play against international sides, understand what they’re doing right, what we’re doing wrong, and rectify those mistakes” Annesha Ghosh / © ESPNcricinfo Ltd After being routed by Sri Lanka for 63…
11:27 PM ET Bangladesh don’t have world-class wristspin or mystery spin to compete with the Afghanistan spin wizards on the slow and low Dehradun surface, but they sure have a bowler who can be handful in these conditions. Except that he is not playing this series. Mustafizur Rahman is out for four weeks with a hairline fracture on his foot, which he stuck out to try to stop a straifght…
Brian Lawless / © PA Photos If the timing of the Australian team’s visit to the First World War battlefields of the Western front was coincidental with the start of a new era for the side, it was still quite fitting for the group to be humbled by newfound knowledge of history, and to get a fresh perspective from outside the team “bubble”. A three-day tour of Western France and…
3:51 PM ET After the discipline of Lord’s, the collective brain-fade at Headingley. If Pakistan were undone by good bowling in the first innings on the first day in Leeds, they were undone by their own urges on the third. At least five of their top eight fell to poor strokeplay, one caught at mid-on, another at mid-off, a third down the leg side, a fourth slogging, yet another playing…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Surrey 238 for 5 (Foakes 86, Pope 57*) beat Middlesex 234 (Stirling 67, T Curran 4-33) by five wicketsScorecard Tom Curran celebrated his latest England call-up by keeping alive Surrey’s Royal London One-Day Cup hopes at the expense of Middlesex at Lord’s. While his younger sibling Sam enjoyed being part of an England Test win at Headingley, Curran was named in the national squad…