9:42 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN The Bangladesh dressing room was “shocked” after their embarrassing defeat to West Indies in Antigua. First, they were bowled out for 43, their lowest-ever total and the lowest Test score in 44 years. Then they followed that with a marginal improvement to make 144 in the second innings, eventually losing by an innings and 219 runs. This was the least overs a side had bowled…
8:24 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Netherlands and Nepal will face each other in two ODIs on August 1 and August 3, the Netherlands Cricket Board (KNCB) announced. The two matches will be played at Voorburg CC, just outside the Hague, and the VRA Ground in the Amsterdam suburb of Amstelveen. The matches will be the first ODIs in Nepal’s history after the country secured ODI status by finishing in eighth…
Najam Sethi addresses the PCB’s Board of Governors © PCB Over two months on from the dope test, and three weeks since the results of that test became public, the Pakistan player who tested positive for a prohibited substance is yet to face any action. The player in question underwent a test in Faisalabad during the 50-over Pakistan Cup in the last week of April. News of a positive test…
4:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia captain Aaron Finch has jumped three places to vault to the top of ICC T20I rankings for batsmen, while Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman and India’s KL Rahul have risen to the No. 2 and No. 3 spots respectively. The injured Babar Azam, Colin Munro and Glenn Maxwell have all slipped, occupying the three spots below Finch, Zaman and Rahul. Finch, the newly appointed T20I captain,…
4:52 AM ET Glenn Maxwell, the Australia allrounder, has admitted his apparent snub to Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed following Pakistan’s victory in the triangular series final in Harare appeared to be an “unsportsmanlike” gesture, though he maintained it was a “genuine oversight”. Television cameras captured the moments after Pakistan secured their six-wicket victory, which showed Maxwell congratulating Shoaib Malik then also shaking hands with Jhye Richardson and the umpires but…
12:18 AM ET As he plots a path towards fitness for Australia’s Test appointment with Pakistan in October, Pat Cummins has admitted to pondering whether it is possible for fast bowlers to maintain a place in the national team’s plans across all formats, following a 15-month stretch in which only Kagiso Rabada bowled more overs in international cricket. Cummins (back), Josh Hazlewood (back) and Mitchell Starc (right leg) are all…
3:16 PM ET George Dobell in Bristol Football might be coming home, but cricket isn’t. Not for a while, anyway. After their success against a diminished Australia – defeated 6-0 across limited-overs formats – England were brought crashing down to earth by an India side that look significantly better than anyone England have played since 2015. The real worry for England is that, over the last three years, they have…
© Getty Images Kent 163 for 2 (Kuhn 67*, Bell-Drummond 58) beat Somerset 159 for 6 (Hildreth 57, Abell 36, Brathwaite 4-21) by eight wicketsScorecard Heino Kuhn‘s exceptional season with the bat continued at Taunton, as his unbeaten 67 helped Kent cruise to a ninth successive T20 win against Somerset. Kuhn, the top scorer in this year’s Royal London Cup with 696 runs, put on 101 for the second wicket…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Sussex 177 for 2 (Wright 88, Evans 65*) beat Glamorgan 173 for 4 (Ingram 81*) by eight wicketsScorecard Luke Wright led by example at Sophia Gardens by striking 88 from 53 balls, as Sussex gained their second win from two games and lead the Southern Group after an impressive all-round performance. It was a battle of the captains at Hove, with Colin Ingram top…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Nottinghamshire 199 for 9 (Patel 52, Moores 51, Chappell 3-25) Leicestershire 180 for 9 (Dexter 43, Christian 2-32) by 19 runsScorecard Champions Nottinghamshire completed a second successive victory, with a bowling attack that showed its experience as the Outlaws beat East Midland neighbours Leicestershire by 19 runs at the Fischer County Ground. “They strangled us well in the middle overs,” Foxes’ captain Colin Ackermann…