Month: September 2018

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 208 for 7 (Dent 82) vs MiddlesexScorecard Gloucestershire skipper Chris Dent continued his fine form, top-scoring with 82 as Gloucestershire closed on 208 for 7 on day one of the Specsavers County Championship match against Second Division promotion hopefuls Middlesex at Bristol. Made to work hard on an essentially true pitch, Middlesex’s seam bowling unit nevertheless removed the cream of Gloucestershire’s top-order batting…

3:00 AM ET David Hopps at New Road Worcestershire 68 for 4 trail Hampshire 191 (Northeast 48, Barnard 6-50) by 123 runsScorecard It’s September, the pitches are seaming and Worcestershire are in danger of relegation. Little changes, you might assume. Except it does because this time nobody in county cricket is blithely assuming that it is Worcestershire plus one other for the drop. This time, a talented young side suggests…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Sussex 323 for 8 (Brown 60, Wells 58, Haines 56, Jordan 52*, Raine 3-62, Mike 3-57) vs LeicestershireScorecard A seventh wicket stand of 110 in 25 overs between Ben Brown and Chris Jordan rescued the day for promotion-chasing Sussex against Leicestershire at Hove. Until then Sussex had not made the most of a strong position with a number of batsmen getting out when well…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Warwickshire 184 for 6 (Trott 67*) v DurhamScorecard Jonathan Trott, in his penultimate match at Edgbaston, held Warwickshire together with batting of high class on a truncated first day of their Specsavers County Championship match against Durham. Warwickshire closed a day stripped of 12 overs by rain and bad light on 184 for 6 with Trott unbeaten on 67 – a patient and skilful…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Northamptonshire 71 for 8 (Henry 6-31) trail Kent 137 (Gleeson 3-16, Buck 3-28) by 66 runsScorecard Kent pace bowler Matt Henry bagged 6 for 31 to leave Northamptonshire reeling on 71 for 8 when bad light and rain ended prematurely an action-packed opening day of Specsavers County Championship action. On a thrilling day when 18 wickets fell, Henry – the New Zealand Test paceman…

3:00 AM ET India A 63 for 2 (Agarwal 25*) and 274 need a further 199 to beat Australia A 243 and 292 (Head 87, Khawaja 40, Siraj 3-77) Travis Head celebrates his sixth first-class century Getty Images Australia A edged ahead at the end of the third day, thanks to Travis Head‘s free-flowing 87, crucial contributions from the lower order, uneven bounce late in the day and a gifted wicket…

8:02 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Hafeez‘s international career hangs in the balance after the allrounder was left out of Pakistan’s Asia Cup squad. The 37-year old, who was part of the ODI squad for Pakistan’s bilateral series against Zimbabwe, did not feature in any of those matches, and it appears he has fallen down the pecking order of late. Pakistan have gone for a pace-heavy lineup; no fewer than…

Alastair Cook and Keaton Jennings finished the second day with England wicketless  6:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Keaton Jennings has been given one final opportunity to prove his worth at the top of England’s Test batting order, and he will be joined once again by Alastair Cook in his farewell appearance, after England named a familiar 13-man squad for the fifth and final Test against India at The Kia Oval,…

5:00 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya Akila Dananjaya is set to miss at least the first two games of the Asia Cup as he awaits the birth of his first child. Dinesh Chandimal meanwhile is in doubt after sustaining a hairline fracture on the middle finger of his right hand during Sri Lanka’s recently-concluded domestic T20 tournament. Sri Lanka will face Bangladesh in the tournament opener on September 15, with their…

4:44 AM ET The laws of cricket have been published in an African language for the first time, with a copy now available in isiXhosa, one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, and one of Zimbabwe’s 16 official languages. The laws were presented in the form of a booklet at Newlands. The project to translate the laws was undertaken by cricket historian and professor Andre Odendaal, the Western Cape Department…