3:00 AM ET England 365 for 7 (Root 100, Moeen 60, Peiris 3-108) drew with Sri Lanka Board XI 392 for 9 dec (Kaushal Silva 62, Sarathchandra 59*, Samarawickrama 58, Priyanjan 50, Moeen 2-64) Moeen Ali congratulates Joe Root on his century Getty Images A sickening injury to Pathum Nissanka overshadowed the final day of England’s warm-up match against a Sri Lanka Board side. Play was suspended for around 20 minutes…
7:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff With nine new teams added to the roster from this season, the movement of players across teams has been particularly hectic. When the domestic season began, Sikkim were the only team to rely wholly on homegrown players. But after losing every single match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy and finishing at the bottom of the Plate Group, they too have drafted in three professional players….
7:04 AM ET By virtue of being Sri Lanka’s former head coach, Nic Pothas has been part of a number of ODI battles against India. Having watched many India players achieve their peaks from close quarters, Pothas – who is now West Indies’ fielding coach – says it is the leadership system that is the reason for India’s success in the format. “As I said, they’re a world-class team. I…
3:00 AM ET Prime Minister’s XI 6 for 174 (Philippe 57, Bailey 51*, Ngidi 2-16) beat South Africans 173 (Markram 47, Miller 45, Qadir 3-28, Behrendorff 3-35) by four wickets Usman Qadir in his follow through Getty Images Faf du Plessis couldn’t help but giggle at the sight of George Bailey‘s extraordinary batting stance, but it was Bailey who had the last laugh as his unbeaten half-century ensured the Prime Minister’s…
6:04 AM ET George Dobell in Colombo Play was suspended in the tour match between England and a Sri Lanka Board XI side after Pathum Nissanka sustained a blow to the head. Nissanka was standing at short leg when Jos Buttler pulled a delivery from the offspinner Nishan Peiris. The ball appeared to strike Nissanka on the crown of the head as he ducked to avoid it. He was wearing…
Shakib Al Hasan muscles a pull © AFP The BCB has granted Shakib Al Hasan an NOC to participate in the UAE T20x tournament, meaning he will join the likes of Steven Smith, who is currently into the seventh month of a one-year ban handed to him by Cricket Australia for his part in the Newlands ball-tampering incident, Andre Russell and Shahid Afridi. The tournament starts on December 23, a…
4:52 AM ET George Dobell in Colombo Ben Stokes was forced to retire hurt after sustaining a blow while batting during England’s warm-up match in Colombo. Stokes was struck when attempting to pull a short delivery from Lahiru Kumara. Through the shot too early, Stokes was hit just above the left elbow and, while he continued to bat for another few minutes, then decided to walk off and seek treatment….
3:00 AM ET Big Picture West Indies did deny Virat Kohli a hundred but a familiar Indian script unfolded at the CCI’s Brabourne Stadium: Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan provided the launchpad for a tall total. In a rather unfamiliar instance, though, an India No. 4 (Ambati Rayudu) cracked a century, as the side moves closer towards solving the middle-order jigsaw. After coming close to matching the hosts’ firepower with…
4:10 AM ET Australia’s largest cricket state, New South Wales, will not express public support for Cricket Australia’s current chairman David Peever and his board before further consideration of the findings of the cultural review released publicly on Monday. The Cricket NSW board, chaired by the Credit Suisse Australia chief executive John Knox, convened for a regular meeting in Sydney on Tuesday night and discussed the release of the cultural…
2:03 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohsin Khan, freshly installed as the head of the PCB’s new cricket committee, wants Sarfraz Ahmed to be relieved of the Test captaincy, a suggestion that will do little to calm an already turbulent start to the committee’s existence. Announced publicly only on Friday, Mohsin’s appointment had the PCB apparently distancing itself from the Justice Qayyum report on match-fixing, in a bid to convince him…