Bangladesh 43 (Liton 25, Roach 5-8) and 144 (Nurul 64, Gabriel 5-77) lost to West Indies 406 (Brathwaitw 121, Hope 67, Smith 58, Jayed 3-84) by an innings and 219 runs © CWI Media Nurul Hasan held up West Indies’ march towards the 1-0 lead for more than 90 minutes on the third day in Antigua, but eventually fell to give the hosts an innings and 219-run win shortly before…
Dom Bess claimed Imam-ul-Haq as his maiden Test wicket © Getty Images England have named a strong Lions XI to take on India A later this month, with Somerset team-mates Jack Leach and Dom Bess potentially going head-to-head for the Test spinner’s role and Alastair Cook making his first Lions appearance since 2010. Chris Woakes, who is continuing his rehabilitation from a quad injury suffered during the Test series against…
10:35 AM ET Sam Billings has said that the chance to learn from MS Dhoni at Chennai Super Kings during this year’s IPL was an opportunity that made his subsequent struggles for form worthwhile. Billings started his IPL campaign in impressive style with a matchwinning 56 from 23 balls, in partnership with Dhoni, against Kolkata Knight Riders. However, he was unable to touch those heights again, as he finished a…
10:17 AM ET Liam Brickhill in Harare Glenn Maxwell has endured a topsy-turvy 2018, but after a half century punctuated by five sixes against Zimbabwe, he seems to be seeing the ball well again. ‘Watch the ball’ is a truism so simple it can sometimes get lost in cricket’s reams of jargon, but that is all Maxwell is concentrating on at the moment. When he reached fifty, he pointed to…
10:08 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Tom Banton will lead England Under-19s in their international series against South Africa, which starts in Scarborough on Sunday, after his Somerset team-mate Tom Lammonby was ruled out with injury. Lammonby, who missed the Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand earlier this year after suffering a hand injury in practice, was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his heel after making 45 in the…
The IPL corruption scandal might yield something of a positive outcome if it results in progress towards the legalisation of betting in India 9:19 AM ET Nagraj Gollapudi The Law Commission of India (LCI) has agreed with the Lodha Committee report that match-fixing of any kind in sport, including cricket, should be a criminal offence carrying significant punishment. Calling gambling and betting two sides of the same coin, the LCI…
7:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Northamptonshire has announced that Kyle Coetzer has re-joined the club on a short-term basis for the 2018 Vitality Blast campaign. Coetzer, 34, who captained Scotland to a memorable ODI win over England in Edinburgh last month, was previously part of the squad at the County Ground between 2011 and 2015 and helped the Steelbacks win the T20 Blast in 2013. Northants have been hit by…
Jul 5, 2018 George Dobell Chris Woakes is hoping to make his return from injury next week in a bid to prove his fitness ahead of the Test series against India. Woakes, who has a chronic knee problem that is likely to require attention for the rest of his career, also sustained an injury to his right quad during the Headingley Test against Pakistan. He is aiming to play as…
6:01 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowler Shardul Thakur will replace the injured Jasprit Bumrah in India’s ODI squad for the three matches against England. Bumrah had already been ruled out of the ongoing T20I series in England, having broken his left thumb during India’s 76-run win in the first T20I against Ireland on June 27. On Friday, the BCCI confirmed that the fast bowler would miss the ODIs too,…
5:12 AM ET George Dobell Reece Topley has been ruled out of the rest of the season after being diagnosed with a recurrence of a stress fracture in the lower back. Only days after it emerged he had come close to a recall to the England limited-overs squad – the selectors considered him (and Yorkshire’s Matt Fisher) as a replacement for the injured Tom Curran in the T20I squad facing…