1:15 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff With a busy cricket schedule lined up for the West Indies team over the next couple of years, chairman of selectors Courtney Browne believes they have the “right approach” to select players and is confident the performance of the team will improve steadily. West Indies are scheduled to tour India and Bangladesh in the coming months before they take on England and India at home…
11:45 PM ET Shashank KishoreESPN Australia A’s two-week stay in Bengaluru – originally scheduled for the 50-over Quadrangular series – is set to be extended after the BCCI has shifted their two four-day games against India A out of Visakhapatnam. The development comes after the 50-overs leg of their tour was moved from Vijayawada to Bengaluru because of heavy rain and unfit ground conditions, where the Australian players were forced…
3:00 AM ET Raf Nicholson Surrey Stars 183 for 6 (Lee 104, Sciver 40) beat Loughborough Lightning 117 (Villiers 3-22, van Niekerk 3-37) by 66 runsScorecard A magnificent 55-ball century from Lizelle Lee took Surrey Stars to their maiden Kia Super League title, her side racking up 183 or 6 – their highest KSL total – before bowling Loughborough Lightning out for 117. Fellow South Africans Marizanne Kapp and Dane…
1:08 PM ET Madushka Balasuriya A group of foreign nationals were ejected from an ongoing SLC T20 League fixture, Sri Lanka Cricket has confirmed, after “suspicious individuals” were reported to the board’s Anti-Corruption Unit. Though no approaches are believed to have been made to players, SLC has since taken steps to tighten anti-corruption measures at match venues and team hotels. “Sri Lanka Cricket has also notified the team managers and…
12:08 PM ET Sidharth Monga The BCCI has registered a new constitution. The Committee of Administrators (CoA) is finally ready to hand back control of the BCCI the day the elections are conducted, and it hopes this is in three months’ time. But the role of the Supreme Court in the matter is not yet over. The most contentious issue the BCCI had with the Lodha reforms, the terms of…
© Cricket Australia Corruption remains a challenge in Indian cricket, and to counter this the BCCI will beef up its anti-corruption unit (ACU), the CoA chief Vinod Rai has said. A new possible avenue of corruption is the introduction of new states to first-class cricket. Many of these states don’t have a settled feeder system, and there are fears that fringe players from outside these states could use unfair means…
A fan holds the South African flag aloft © Getty Images Only one of Cricket South Africa’s three domestic sponsors remain in place ahead of the 2018-19 season, in which there could be no corporate backing for either the franchise first-class competition or the 20-over tournament. Only the 50-over format continues to be sponsored, by the financial services company Momentum. Sunfoil, the sponsors of Test cricket and both the franchise…
3:00 AM ET South Africa A 159 for 6 (Malan 47, Khaleel 3-45) beat India A 157 (Chahar 38, Samson 36, Paterson 5-19) by four wickets On a cloudy day and a greenish pitch, South Africa A’s pacers ran through India A, consigning them to a four-wicket defeat and knocking them out of contention for a place in the quadrangular series final. The win gave South Africa a bonus-point, but…
3:00 AM ET Australia A 248 for 5 (Khawaja 101*, Wildermuth 62*) beat India B 276 for 6 (Pandey 117*, Agarwal 36, Neser 3-47) by five wickets (D/L method) Usman Khawaja lays into a pull AFP When Jack Wildermuth earned his first Australia cap during the T20I tri-series in Zimbabwe in June, he did so not just because of his seam bowling but also his promise as a lower-order hitter. On…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Surrey Stars 162 for 5 (Sciver 71*, Kapp 32*) beat Western Storm 153 for 6 (Wilson 58*) by nine runsScorecard Captain Nat Sciver led from the front as Surrey Stars reached the final of the Kia Super League after they beat defending champions Western Storm by nine runs at Hove. Sciver made an unbeaten 72 then took 2 for 21 as Surrey recovered from…