Month: August 2018

4:02 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) will not renew the contracts of “almost all” of its staff members when they expire at the end of August as the organisation begins a radical financial restructure. Player contracts will be reviewed and agreed next week. “These are tough times and tough decisions are required to preserve cricket in Zimbabwe,” ZC said in a release. Zimbabwe Cricket remains committed to restarting…

3:00 AM ET Barbados Tridents 185 for 4 (Hope 88, Pooran 45*, Steven Smith 41) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 155 for 8 (Rutherford 48, Malik 38, Reifer 5-20) by 30 runs Raymon Reifer is ecstatic after picking up one of his two wickets CPL/Sportsfile After missing the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, Barbados Tridents got their CPL 2018 campaign off to a winning start by easily defending the highest ever CPL total…

‘Everything I did was in defence of myself and others’, Stokes tells jury (1:16) Ben Stokes took to the witness stand for the first time on the fourth day of his trial for affray (1:16) 5:19 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Day one The trial of Ben Stokes, Ryan Ali and Ryan Hale – all three charged with affray which they denied – began with jurors being told the England allrounder…

What went wrong with India’s batting? (1:40) Aakash Chopra believes it was a combination of not having the right temperament and too many players being out of form (1:40) 4:06 PM ET Accepting mistakes committed by his batsmen is becoming a norm for India captain Virat Kohli. For the second Test in succession Kohli admitted the batsmen had failed, including himself on this occasion, and that is reason India were…

‘Broad didn’t disappoint’ – Root (2:27) Joe Root discusses the impact that Stuart Broad made on the fourth day at Lord’s as he got onto another of his ‘streaks’ (2:27) 3:28 PM ET England may be 2-0 up in the series after a resounding victory over India. They may have dominated the entire Indian batting line-up apart from Virat Kohli. Not to mention there is a chance Kohli may not…

2:19 PM ET He conceded 81 runs in the third ODI, went at 10 and over in the next one, and yet, claimed 6 for 29 in the fifth ODI, in Sri Lanka’s 178-run victory over South Africa. So emphatically did Akila Dananjaya bounce back from those Pallekele pastings, that Angelo Mathews has declared him to be “made of steel”. Not only did Akila finish the series in possession of…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Nottinghamshire 194 for 5 (Wessels 55, Libby 37, Brown 3-28) beat Worcestershire 191 for 6 (D’Oliveira 64) by five wicketsScorecard Worcestershire Rapids were on the receiving end of a six-hitting blitz from Notts Outlaws opener Riki Wessels as a five wicket defeat dealt a blow to their hopes of sealing a home quarter-final in the Vitality Blast. Wessels smashed nine sixes in his 55…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Somerset 210 for 8 (Anderson 72, Hildreth 47) beat Glamorgan 181 for 9 (Waller 4-25) by29 runsScorecard A devastating innings by Corey Anderson and four wickets for Max Waller saw Somerset to their seventh consecutive Vitality Blast victory and a place in the quarter finals after they beat Glamorgan by 29 runs. After the start was delayed until 3.15pm by earlier rain, Somerset looked…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 174 for 6 (Noema-Barnett 57*, Morkel 3-34) beat Surrey 169 for 7 (Foakes 59, Clarke 35, Payne 3-29, Howell 3-31) by five runsScorecard Gloucestershire’s bowlers held their nerve to defeat Surrey by five runs in a tense match at Bristol and secure a place in the quarter-finals of the Vitality Blast. Kieran Noema-Barnett registered a career-best-equalling 57 not out as Gloucestershire posted 174…