Month: July 2018

3:00 AM ET Four half-centuries and a modest total. Those were the couple of positive takeaways for the Indians who got to bat first against an Essex second XI. The pitch was lime green, something coach Ravi Shastri had said India were not shy of confronting. Even before the crowd took their seats, Shikhar Dhawan had edged his way back to the dressing room. And by the time the fans…

3:00 AM ET Toss Bangladesh elect to bowl v West Indies Andre Russell guzzles down water on a humid day CWI Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza chose to bowl against West Indies in the second ODI at Providence, Guyana. There has been rain on and off in Georgetown in the last 24 hours and there’s rain forecast all afternoon. This may have influenced Mashrafe’s decision. Jason Holder, the West Indies captain, also…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Somerset 337 (Davies 72, Abell 70, Hildreth 57, Moeen 3-63) and 362 for 9 dec (Azhar 125, Trescothick 71, Moeen 5-107) beat Worcestershire 257 (Wood 65*, J Overton 4-61, Davey 4-68) and 301 (Milton 104*, J Overton 4-82) by 141 runsScorecard Somerset climbed up to second in the Specsavers County Championship as they defeated bottom-placed Worcestershire by 141 runs on the final day at…

11:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies are set to visit Bangladesh in November and December this year for their first full tour of the country since 2012. There will be a two-day practice match before the tour kicks off with two Tests. Three ODIs and three T20Is follow. 1st Test, Nov 22-26, Fatullah 2nd Test, Nov 30-Dec 4, Mirpur 1st ODI, Dec 9, Mirpur 2nd ODI, Dec 11, Mirpur…

11:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff John Murray, the former Middlesex and England wicketkeeper, has died at the age of 83. Murray was taken ill at Lord’s on Tuesday, after Middlesex’s victory over Warwickshire, and passed away later that evening. Acknowledged as one of the game’s finest keepers – his record of 1527 first-class dismissals remains second on the all-time list – Murray played 21 times for England during the 1960s….

Gale plays down chance of red-ball return for Rashid (0:33) Yorkshire coach Andrew Gale says Adil Rashid hasn’t shown an interest in returning to playing red-ball cricket, amid talk of a Test recall (0:33) 9:31 AM ET England’s squad for the first Test against India, starting at Edgbaston next week, is due to be announced on Thursday. While the white-ball teams have been ticking along nicely, there remain several issues…

8:21 AM ET India coach Ravi Shastri has made it clear that there was no ulterior motive behind reducing his side’s warm-up match against Essex to a three-day game. In a brief interaction with the Indian media, his first on the UK tour, Shastri said the only reason behind dropping one day from the originally scheduled four-day match was to get to Birmingham and let the players switch to Test-match…

5:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Afghanistan Cricket Board has announced a 14-man T20I squad and a 16-man ODI squad for Afghanistan’s tour of Ireland in August 2018, with numerous new additions to both squads from their last outings. Top-order batsman Hashmatullah Shahidi returned to the ODI squad – that last played the World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe – after a year-long absence while Aftab Alam also made it to the…