6:46 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Do you remember when Virender Sehwag and Evin Lewis were denied centuries by no-balls? A similar situation arose in a controversial finish to a match in the Somerset Cricket League as Minehead took on Purnell Cricket Club. Batsman Jay Darrell was on 98 – within touching distance of a maiden century – when the opposition bowler deliberately threw the ball to the boundary. It created…
5:05 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia allrounder Ellyse Perry has confirmed she will leave her home team New South Wales to play state cricket for Victoria next year. Perry, who has been with the NSW side since 2007, will move to Melbourne at the end of the 2018-19 season with her husband Matt Toomua, a rugby player who has signed on to play for the Melbourne Rebels. “At the end…
Play 00:39 Anderson hits himself in the face with golf ball Most of England’s cricketers enjoy a round of golf and James Anderson is no exception. With an extra day off after the early finish of the first Test against India it was the perfect chance to get in another 18 holes. But it did not all go according to plan for Anderson. Finding himself buried among some trees, Anderson…
4:15 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Did India learn anything from the defeat in South Africa earlier this year? Did they not learn that match practice is the key to winning Test series, especially abroad? Was playing just a three-day tour match against Essex enough before a big clash with England? These are the questions raised by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, who said the team management had erred by focusing…
Sushil Nadkarni, Aditya Thyagarajan and Usman Shuja (left to right) on the field together after their final match 12:03 AM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna The people have spoken and they want change…
Aug 4, 2018 Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan decided to bat first against West Indies in the series-deciding third T20I in Lauderhill. The home side have dropped Evin Lewis to bring in Chadwick Walton. Shakib reasoned that the surface may slow down and offer turn in the second innings while explaining his decision. Carlos Brathwaite, the West Indies captain, wasn’t too fussed about losing the toss, saying it wasn’t much…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Birmingham 187 for 7 (Woakes 57*, Bell 43) beat Northamptonshire 170 for 7 (Cobb 103) by 17 runsScorecard Chris Woakes celebrated his call-up to the England squad for the second Test against India by making a match-winning career-best 57 from 23 balls for Birmingham Bears as they beat Northamptonshire by 17 runs at Wantage Road. After winning the toss, the Bears’ innings stuttered along…
3:00 AM ET Surrey 159 for 4 (Maddinson 49*, Clarke 37*) beat Essex 157 for 5 (Chopra 52) by six wicketsScorecard What neutrals there were in a packed house at Chelmsford had mostly come to watch Aaron Finch and Jason Roy, the most explosive opening pairing in domestic T20, probably anywhere in the world, continue their devastating form. On Friday against Middlesex they had combined for 194 runs in a…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 164 for 2 (Hammond 51, Klinger 46) beat Kent 160 for 5 (Denly 99*) by eight wicketsScorecard Miles Hammond‘s quickfire first T20 fifty and an unbeaten 32 from Ian Cockbain eased Gloucestershire to their sixth Vitality Blast victory of the season in a top-of-the-table clash with Kent at Canterbury. There was also a typically calm and responsible 43-ball 46 from their captain Michael…
1:04 PM ET George Dobell England coach Trevor Bayliss admitted the team are “under no illusions” about the improvements they will have to make if they are to retain a lead in the Test series against India. England took a 1-0 lead at Edgbaston, but not without some nervous moments. As well as batting collapses in both innings – they subsided from 216 for 3 to 287 all out in…