3:00 AM ET Umar Farooq Big Picture After sleepwalking to a series win, Pakistan blew life into a dull series courtesy Fakhar Zaman‘s record-breaking double-century. This sparked tremendous interest momentarily on Friday afternoon in Pakistan. There’s little to suggest the joyride won’t continue on Sunday, but only a performance of Fakhar’s kind again can elicit the same level of interest. Zimbabwe have shown no fight whatsoever. If 67 all out…
© Associated Press Wriddhiman Saha is set to undergo surgery on his right shoulder in Manchester in the last week of July or early August. There is no timeline for his return to action after that, but it is likely that he won’t be able to even lift a bat for two months after such a surgery. This bulletin was made public on the BCCI website on Saturday, three days…
2:15 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shoaib Malik, the Pakistan allrounder, will lead an overseas T20 franchise for just the second time when he captains Guyana Amazon Warriors for the 2018 Caribbean Premier League starting August 8. He has previously captained the Comilla Victorians in the Bangladesh Premier League. The leadership group at the franchise will comprise Malik and head coach Johan Botha, the former South Africa offspinner, who hoped the…
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka 338 (Dhananjaya 60, Gunathilaka 57, Maharaj 9-129) v South AfricaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Keshav Maharaj is jubilant after taking a wicket Associated Press A last-wicket stand of 74 between Akila Dananjaya and Rangana Herath allowed Sri Lanka to cross 300 for the first time in the two-Test series on a dry, turning Colombo pitch. Sri Lanka’s tenth wicket has made the second-most runs for them…
3:00 AM ET Lancashire 176 for 2 (Livingstone 79, Lilley 42*, Clark 36*) beat Yorkshire 175 for 4 (Lyth 60, Root 51*) by one runScorecard On evenings such as this it is perhaps worth remembering that Liam Livingstone esteems his red-ball cricket above the shorter formats. Certainly as his six sixes sailed into the stands at Emirates Old Trafford the majority of the 22,515 spectators would have found that preference…
3:00 AM ET Matt Roller Hampshire 184 (Munro 63, Fuller 6-28) beat Middlesex 163 for 9 (Munro 2-20) by 21 runsScorecard Hampshire cruised to the first win of their T20 Blast campaign by putting struggling Middlesex to the sword at the Ageas Bowl thanks to Colin Munro’s all-round heroics. Munro’s 40-ball 63 put Hampshire on course for a score well over 200, before an unlikely six-wicket haul from James Fuller…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Birmingham 231 for 5 (Bell 131, Hose 64, Buck 3-38) tied with Northants 231 for 5 (Levi 95*, Cobb 61)Scorecard Birmingham Bears and Northants Steelbacks fought out a thrilling tie as runs flowed in the Vitality Blast at Edgbaston – with Ian Bell to the fore as he struck his first T20 hundred. Despite conceding 229 and 220, having bowled first, in their last…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Surrey 250 for 6 (Finch 83, Burns 50, Qayyum 3-40) vs Kent – no resultScorecard Kent Spitfires and Surrey shared a point apiece after their Vitality Blast South Group clash in Canterbury was abandoned due to heavy rain during the innings break and after Surrey had posted a mammoth 250 for six – the fourth highest total in domestic T20 cricket. Kent, with three…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Somerset 190 for 5 (Anderson 59, Hildreth 56*, van der Gugten 3-36) beat Glamorgan 160 for 9 (Khawaja 44, Waller 2-20) by 30 runsScorecard A fifth-wicket partnership of 97 between James Hildreth and Corey Anderson set the foundations for Somerset as they beat Glamorgan by 30 runs in the Vitality Blast clash at Sophia Gardens, and moved above them in the table. Chasing 191…
Ben Raine followed up his second-fastest hundred in style © Getty Images Leicestershire 193 for 6 (Raine 83, Ball 3-40) beat Nottinghamshire 176 for 9 (Wessels 58, Abbas 3-32, Parkinson 3-28) by 17 runsScorecard Ben Raine continued to make his mark in this season’s Vitality Blast competition with a stunning innings to help Leicestershire Foxes take the bragging rights in the East Midlands derby, with a 17-run victory over Notts…