7:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Harsha de Silva has been appointed Sri Lanka women’s head coach, reprising the role he had performed between 2010 and 2013. De Silva’s term is for two years, and he officially begins on August 15, several weeks before India women’s forthcoming tour of the island. The other major assignment on the horizon is the World T20 in the West Indies, scheduled for November this year….
3:00 AM ET South Africa opt to bowl v Sri Lanka Junior Dala appeals for Rohit Sharma’s wicket BCCI Quinton de Kock, in his first match as captain, has already done what his injured predecessor Faf du Plessis was not able to do this series – win the toss. He chose to chase under lights in a match that has been reduced to 45 overs-a-side. Persistent rain delayed the start of…
6:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Quinton de Kock has withdrawn from his proposed stint with Nottinghamshire at the request of Cricket South Africa. De Kock had been scheduled to appear in four Specsavers County Championship matches at the end of the season. His withdrawal leaves Nottinghamshire’s director of cricket Mick Newell on the hunt for a replacement for a county currently lying third in the table, 43 points behind the…
3:00 AM ET Durham 154 for 7 (Smith 37*, Zahir 2-19) beat Lancashire 150 for 9 (Davies 53, Trevaskis 4-16) by four runsScorecard Liam Trevaskis a part-time left-arm spinner from Carlisle, took three wickets in a brilliant last over as Durham snatched a startling victory against Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford. Trevaskis, 19, who has played for England Under 19s, but who had taken only one wicket in seven previous…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 198 for 7 (Ingram 89*, Wagg 53) beat Essex 192 for 6 (Chopra 54, Bopara 45*) by six runsScorecard In an exciting finish at Sophia Gardens, Glamorgan won their fourth successive game, and sixth in all, to advance to third place in the Southern Group with four games remaining. With 23 needed from the final over, Ravi Bopara did his best by striking…
T20 probably hasn’t reached the level in England as it has elsewhere – Ponting (0:56) Ricky Ponting says that the ECB still have a way to go to decide what The Hundred will eventually look like (0:56) 3:25 PM ET Melinda FarrellCricinfo The ECB has confirmed to the MCC Cricket Committee that they are likely to ditch six-ball overs in The Hundred tournament with bowlers instead sending down 20 deliveries,…
Many factors made ball-tampering reach ‘tipping point’ – Ponting (1:52) The MCC Cricket Council give its take on the Australian ball-tampering scandal, with Ricky Ponting expanding on the sanctions too (1:52) 2:57 PM ET The MCC cricket committee has proposed the introduction of a ‘shot clock’ in an attempt to combat slow over-rates which are at their lowest level for 11 in Tests and the lowest ever in T20. The…
Ben Stokes leaves court during lunch © Getty Images The fight outside a Bristol nightclub involving a group of men including Ben Stokes and Alex Hales, which led to Stokes’ arrest, was described as being like “football hooligans”, a court has been told. Stokes, who is standing trial for affray alongside Ryan Ali and Ryan Hale at Bristol Crown Court, was also described as “bullying” a young, gay couple while…
1:39 PM ET Quinton de Kock does not immediately come across as a leader or a deep thinker or anything other than incredibly instinctive. However, it is that natural cricketing nous that has seen him elevated to South Africa’s stand-in captain for the remaining two ODIs against Sri Lanka. Broadly speaking, with the series already won and the opposition barely proving a challenge, it should not matter much who captains…
1:05 PM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Following the horrors that were their three-day and four-day Test defeats, the one-dayers could hardly have gone better for South Africa. They had two main objectives in the series – a) to recover some one-day form after having been beaten 5-1 at home by India earlier in the year, and b) to trial several players with a view to the World Cup. The first…