Month: July 2018

11:11 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Two-time World Cup winning captain Ricky Ponting, former India captain Rahul Dravid and 2009 ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year Claire Taylor were the newest additions into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. The three of them were inducted at a ceremony in Dublin on Sunday night. “The ICC Cricket Hall of Fame is our way of honouring the greats of our game,” said ICC…

2:30 PM ET Sam Curran has been savouring the “rollercoaster” for the last few weeks after earning England debuts in Tests and ODIs and is now eyeing up a chance to challenge himself against Virat Kohli after missing out playing alongside him for Surrey. Kohli had been due to play a month with Surrey in preparation for India’s tour of England but a neck injury sustained towards the end of…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ireland 152 for 4 (Lewis 50, Delany 46, Akter 1-20) beat Bangladesh 151 for 4 (Hoque 66*, Shamima 30, Delany 1-19) Ireland captain Isobel Joyce talks to the media AFP/Getty Images Sixteen straight losses across limited-overs cricket over the past two years. Heavy defeats against New Zealand in ODIs and T20Is. An unassailable 2-0 lead to Bangladesh in the T20 series. All of this gloom headlined…

2:28 PM ET South Africa captain Faf du Plessis who has been found guilty of ball-tampering twice (UAE 2013 and Australia 2016) and been on the receiving end of it at least once (by Australia, in 2018) has called for the ICC to “apply harsher” punishments to those who are caught altering the condition of the ball. Before du Plessis left to play Sri Lanka, who are reeling from their…

11:33 AM ET India arrived at Old Trafford early in the morning on a sunny Sunday in Manchester, for their first competitive training session two days out from the first of the three Twenty20s against England. Training sessions might never be the perfect lens to zoom in on who might make the XI or what the players and team think tank have in mind, but it offers glimpses all the…

10:40 AM ET Liam Brickhill in Harare After a gruelling tour of England, where they were swept 6-0 in the limited-overs series, Australia might have hoped that a short trip to Zimbabwe would provide a welcome change of pace and a change of fortunes. But their tri-series opener will be against the No.1 T20I side, and after Pakistan’s clinical drubbing of the hosts in Sunday’s game it seems there will…

3:00 AM ET New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat against EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Katherine Brunt celebrates her dismissal of Suzie Bates Getty Images New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat in the final of the Vitality T20i Tri-Series at Chelmsford. England won both the earlier encounters between the two sides in the series and have named an unchanged side from the team that defeated…

8:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay could face further punishment from the Sri Lankan board in wake of his unsanctioned night out in St Lucia. Vandersay’s tour of the Caribbean was cut short on June 23, when he was sent home due to the incident, which was in breach of his contract. Sri Lanka team manager Asanka Gurusinha has submitted a special report on the matter to the…