Month: August 2018

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Western Storm 185 for 4 (Knight 76, Taylor 51*, Mandhana 49) beat Lancashire Thunder 109 (Nicholas 3-11) by 76 runsScorecard Western Storm captain Heather Knight led by example as the defending Kia Super League champions defeated Lancashire Thunder by 76 runs at Taunton to qualify for finals day. Knight top-scored with 76 and shared in stands of 66 and 102 for the second and…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Worcestershire 137 for 8 (Clarke 76, Viljoen 3-25) beat Derbyshire 121 for 7 by 16 runsScorecard Worcestershire Rapids regained top spot in the Vitality Blast North Group as they overcame Derbyshire Falcons by 16 runs in a low-scoring and tense affair at New Road. Joe Clarke‘s superb 76 held the Rapids innings together with fellow opener Wayne Parnell the only other player into double…

‘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) 2:00 PM ET George Dobell Ben Stokes has told a court in Bristol he “stepped into” an altercation in the city to help two men who were the victims of homophobic abuse. Stokes, who is…

12:59 PM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Mominul Haque is being considered as a top-order option in Bangladesh’s ODI set-up after his 182 off 133 balls against Ireland A in a one-day match on Wednesday. Typecast as a Test specialist during Chandika Hathurusingha’s tenure as Bangladesh coach, Mominul last played an ODI during the 2015 World Cup. However, given the likes of Anamul Haque, Soumya Sarkar and Liton Das have not been…

CCTV of co-defendant in Stokes trial retrieving a metal bar (0:14) Footage shown in court shows Ryan Hale picking up what looks to be like a metal bar after being hit by Ben Stokes. (0:14) 8:51 AM ET George Dobell Ben Stokes has taken to the witness stand in Bristol Crown Court moments after the case against one of his co-defendants, Ryan Hale, was dismissed by the judge. Stokes, who…

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3:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff BPL chairman and BCB director Afzalur Rahman Sinha died at the Gleneagles Global Hospital in Chennai on Wednesday. He was 68 and is survived by his wife, son and daughter. A Freedom Fighter in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, Sinha had been undergoing treatment for liver cancer and kidney disease in Singapore and Thailand. He was a well-acknowledged financier and sports organiser, who joined…

3:30 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Bangladesh surprised even themselves by beating world champions West Indies in the recently concluded T20I series, according to the new coach Steve Rhodes. Though he praised the team’s comeback in Florida, where they won both matches after going down 1-0 in Basseterre, he also warned against complacency going into next month’s Asia Cup. Shakib Al Hasan is likely to undergo a surgery on his left…