Sarfraz Ahmed steps down the track to meet the ball © AFP Big Picture One of these two sides hasn’t won an ODI all year. The other one… is Zimbabwe. Even if you were a consummate optimist, that’s about the only thing you could think of that makes this series even faintly competitive. Because while Pakistan did begin this year with an ignominious trip to New Zealand where they lost…
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5:53 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India women T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur defended herself against allegations that her graduation degree was fake, and said that had she known something was amiss, she would have “done graduation again, maybe two or three times over”. Harmanpreet had been appointed a Deputy Superintendent of Police by the Punjab government after her remarkable showing in the Women’s World Cup 2017, which included a stunning 171…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka A 312 (Shehan Jayasuriya 142, Shammu Ashan 60; Sunzamul Islam 4-104) beat Bangladesh A 167 (Zakir Hasan 42; Prabath Jayasuriya 3-12, Shehan Jayasuriya 3-47) & 107 (Soumya Sarkar 28; Malinda Pushpakumara 6-46) by an innings and 38 runs Malinda Pushpakumara‘s six-wicket haul blew away Bangladesh A by an innings and 38 runs within three days in Sylhet. Sri Lanka A finished 1-0 winners…
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat v South Africa Live Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Dale Steyn at a training session © Gallo Images/Getty Images Live Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Dale Steyn will have the opportunity to break Shaun Pollock’s record as South Africa’s leading Test wicket-taker from the very first day of South Africa’s tour on the island, after stand-in Sri Lanka captain Suranga Lakmal chose to bat first on…
2:53 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal, coach Chandika Hathurusingha and manager Asanka Gurusinha have “agreed” to not participate in the two Tests against South Africa, after the ICC concluded its hearing on the trio pleading guilty to a level three spirit of cricket offence. The ICC tweeted on Thursday that the judicial commissioner would announce his decision in “due course” and in the interim, Chandimal, Hathurusingha…
2:03 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former Pakistan batsman Younis Khan has never been afraid to say what he feels, with that trait showing so sign of abating even as he stands retired from international cricket. Angered – and seemingly hurt – by his domestic franchise United Bank Limited’s decision to disband the cricket team, Younis announced his resignation as both captain and player, and that 11 July 2018 was “his…
Jack Taylor gets on to the front foot © Getty Images Gloucestershire 184 for 7 (Taylor 42*, Brathwaite 2-30) beat Kent 179 for 8 (Kuhn 44, Higgins 2-34) by five runsScorecard If Kent were under any illusions about the difficulty of their run chase at Bristol, they were shattered within nine balls. Joe Denly, regularly acclaimed with five hundreds bagged across all formats this season, pushed forward to the left-arm…
12:37 PM ET Mohammad IsamESPN The BCB has appointed Ryan Cook as the senior team’s fielding coach until the 2019 World Cup. He will join the team during the second Test against West Indies in Jamaica on Friday. Cook will effectively take over from Sohel Islam, who is with the team as a stop-gap fielding coach following Richard Halsall’s exit earlier this year. Halsall was Bangladesh’s assistant coach but was…
© Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata Knight Riders announced the launch of KKR Academy, the brainchild of captain Dinesh Karthik and team CEO Venky Mysore, on Wednesday. The franchise aims to strengthen their connect with their local Indian players and address different aspects of their games during the three-month off-season after the IPL. Still an active cricketer himself with over a decade of first-class experience, Abhishek Nayar, who worked with the…