3:00 AM ET Kent 210 for 4 (Billings 95*) beat Hampshire 207 for 6 (Dawson 75*, Denly 3-37) by three runsScorecard Kent avenged last month’s Royal London One-day Cup final defeat by securing a breathless three-run Vitality Blast T20 win over Hampshire in Beckenham. For Sam Billings, his 95 from 54 balls, a T20 best, was a reaffirmation of his talent after long spells on the sidelines. But it was…
1:41 PM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna The inaugural USA Cricket elections, which were originally announced to be held on May 18, will now begin on July 20 according to an announcement from…
3:00 AM ET Innings West Indies 354 (Brathwaite 110, Hetmyer 86, Mehidy 5-93, Jayed 3-38) v BangladeshLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Mehidy Hasan completed a five-for on the second morning AFP Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Abu Jayed led Bangladesh’s fightback on the second morning, limiting West Indies’ first-innings total to 354, after Kraigg Brathwaite’s dogged century on the opening day had set up a strong platform for the home team in…
Harmison: England need dot balls if wickets don’t come (2:27) Steve Harmison explains how India’s consistent scoring proved too much for England in the opening ODI (2:27) 3:00 AM ET Big Picture Is this looming as a summer of torment by spin for England? The signs are heading that way. The weather continues to be hot, the pitches are dry and there are some masterful tweakers in the opposition. Eoin…
9:57 AM ET India’s wristspinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal could both find a place in the Test squad, according to Virat Kohli, following their success in the limited-overs games against England. India are set to pick their team for the five-Test series in England in the next few days. “There might be a few surprises in there,” Kohli told Sky Sports after India won the first ODI at Trent…
9:20 AM ET Get your defense in order, but when the ball is there to hit, make sure you score. That’s Hashim Amla‘s advice to himself and his teammates after an abysmal second day, in which they found themselves 6 for 51 at one stage, before eventually crashing to 126 not out. As is often the case in Galle, the spinners have ruled, and the ball is pouncing off the…
9:06 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The former England batsman James Taylor has been named as a full-time selector to work alongside recently appointed national selector Ed Smith. Taylor, who was forced to retire in 2016 having been diagnosed with the heart condition ARVC, played seven Test and 27 ODIs. He was already one of the scouts appointed by the ECB earlier this season to assess emerging talent around the English…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 192 (Bawne 43, Nair 42, Reifer 5-50) and 321 for 5 (Vihari 68, Pant 67*. Nair 55) beat West Indies A 302 (Brooks 122, Siraj 4-68) and 210 (Blackwood 67, Campbell 61, Siraj 4-64) by five wickets Rishabh Pant‘s counter-attacking unbeaten 71-ball 67 helped India A complete a stirring come-from-behind win in the second four-day Test against West Indies A in Taunton. They…
3:00 AM ET Pakistan 308 for 7 (Imam 128, Asif 46, Chatara 2-49) v Zimbabwe Imam-ul-Haq keeps his eyes on the ball AFP A career-best 128 from opening batsman Imam-ul-Haq helped Pakistan set Zimbabwe 309 in the first ODI at Queen’s Sports Club. It was an innings that began as a dawdle for the left-hander, but one he managed to turn around and finish with a strike rate of nearly 100…
6:05 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Kaif, 37, announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on Friday, 16 years after he steered India to one of their seminal moments in ODI history – beating England by chasing down 325 at Lord’s in a tri-series final. He thus brings the curtains down on two-decade long first-class career that began in 1997-98. He played 13 Tests and 125 ODIs in an…