3:00 AM ET Toss Zimbabwe chose to bat v Pakistan Hamilton Masakadza, the Zimbabwe captain, won the toss for the second straight game and opted to set a target under overcast skies, in the second ODI against Pakistan in Bulawayo. Despite that chastening defeat in the first ODI, Zimbabwe made no changes to their side with Masakadza saying they simply needed to perform to their potential. Pakistan, perhaps less surprisingly,…
11:26 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sir Richard Hadlee will undergo further surgery following the discovery of secondary cancer in his liver. An NZC statement said it was still at a “very early stage”. The former New Zealand captain had been diagnosed with bowel cancer last month, and had undergone surgery to have a tumour removed. “Medical advice is that it’s still at a very early stage and is operable,” the…
11:16 PM ET A first standalone final in the history of the burgeoning Women’s Big Bash League, hosted by the top-ranked team, is set to be scheduled as a lunch-time fixture leading into the third day of the January day-night men’s Test between Australia and Sri Lanka in Brisbane. With the tournament to have 23 matches jointly broadcast on the Seven and Fox Sports networks – up from 12 on…
1:35 PM ET Wriddhiman Saha is understood to not have fully recovered from his thumb injury and hence is likely to miss at least part of India’s five-Test series in England beginning in August. Saha, who hurt his left thumb while playing in the IPL for Sunrisers Hyderabad, not only missed majority of the second leg of the tournament including the final but also the one-off Test against Afghanistan in…
Are England or India favourites to win the series? (2:00) The Match Day team wonders if there’s a clear favourite to win the ODI series in the deciding match at Headingley (2:00) 1:02 PM ET Eoin Morgan hopes the deciding one-day international against India at Headingley will go some way to replicating the winner-takes-all pressure of next year’s World Cup. England levelled the one-day series with a convincing 86-run victory…
11:57 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff James Anderson took two wickets for Lancashire’s 2nd XI on his return from injury as he steps up preparations for the Test series against India. Anderson has been out of action nursing an on-going shoulder problem since the series against Pakistan which finished in early June. He claimed 2 for 32 from 14 overs – the most sent down by any of the Lancashire attack…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Yorkshire 179 for 7 (Ballance 40, Brown 3-34) beat Worcestershire 167 for 8 (Whiteley 37, Patterson 3-35, Bresnan 3-38) by 12 runsScorecard Worcestershire Rapids suffered their first setback in this season’s Vitality Blast as they went down by 12 runs to Yorkshire Vikings at New Road. The Rapids surrendered the last remaining unbeaten record in the competition after reeling off four successive wins. They…
Sam Hain carried the fight for Birmingham © Getty Images Durham 220 for 6 (Clark 65, Latham 58, Elliott 3-40) beat Birmingham 202 for 5 (Hain 95, de Grandhomme 63*) by 18 runsScorecard Durham Jets ended a run of seven successive T20 defeats to Birmingham Bears with an 18-run victory at sun-soaked, run-soaked Edgbaston. The Jets piled up 220 for 6, their second-highest Blast total, built upon an opening stand…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture The chasm between Pakistan and Zimbabwe may make this five-match ODI series look meaningless: Pakistan grounded the hosts into the dust at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo in the first ODI, winning by a hefty margin of 201 runs. There was no resistance, no challenge, as the visitors drove the show. For Pakistan, the series is part of building up for the 2019 World Cup,…
8:12 AM ET James Vince has been called up to England’s one-day squad for the deciding match against India at Headingley with Dawid Malan released to take up his place in the Lions side, to face India A in a four-day match at New Road, ahead of the Test series against India next month. Sam Curran, the Surrey allrounder, has also been let go from the one-day side to face…