3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Half-centuries by openers Lizelle Lee and Laura Wolvaardt helped South Africa pull one back in the fourth women’s T20I against West Indies on Thursday. Their eight-wicket win leaves the series 2-1 in West Indies’ favour, with one match to play. Wolvaardt, the 19-year-old, was back in the side after having played the first T20I of the series, and ended up guiding the chase with 54…
11:57 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The big-hitting Chris Lynn has made a return to Australia’s T20 squad for the series against Pakistan in the UAE. Lynn, who’s shoulder problems have been well documented, last turned out for Australia in February this year, before yet another shoulder dislocation during the T20 tri-series against England and New Zealand left him on the sidelines once again. Like was the case with the Test…
Sophie Ecclestone, Joe Denly and Ollie Pope pose with their PCA awards © Getty Images Kent’s Joe Denly has capped a fine season across all formats, at the end of which he won an England recall after eight years out of the set-up, by being named the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) Players’ Player of the Year. Denly also scooped the Vitality Blast and Royal London Cup awards at the PCA’s…
12:31 PM ET Andrew Miller at Lord’s England’s 15-player squad for next month’s Women’s World T20 has been selected in the knowledge that Katherine Brunt, the squad’s senior allrounder, may not be fit enough to play a full part when the tournament gets underway in the Caribbean in just over a month’s time. Brunt, Player of the Match when England last lifted the trophy against New Zealand in 2009, has…
11:23 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former England opener Nick Compton has announced his retirement from the game. Compton, 35, did not feature for Middlesex during the 2018 season – which was also his benefit year – but will remain working for the club in an ambassadorial role. Compton played 16 Tests for England, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Denis. He was Alastair Cook’s first opening partner after the…
10:31 AM ET West Indies endured a tough start to their tour of India, losing their captain Jason Holder to an ankle injury picked up during the third week of September, when he was in Dubai, training with his team to prepare for this tour. “I am not in a position to discuss Jason’s injury, but he felt something in Dubai in our pre-season camp,” the fielding coach Nic Pothas…
Walsh: Shaw reminds me of Gavaskar, Tendulkar (1:46) Courtney Walsh on Prithvi Shaw’s sensational century on Test debut in Rajkot (1:46) 10:10 AM ET Prithvi Shaw has been a part of India’s roster ever since the fourth Test in England at the end of August, and although he felt he was “ready to play” even then, the opportunity didn’t quite come. It took until the home series against West Indies…
9:52 AM ET Mohammad IsamESPN Best batsmen Tushar Imran stood out among the 12 centurions in the opening round of the 2018 National Cricket League, with his twin centuries against Rajshahi Division in difficult circumstances, while Rony Talukdar and Ariful Haque racked up double-hundreds. Tushar nearly accounted for half of Khulna Division’s 210 all out with his first-innings 104. It wasn’t until the arrival of the No. 9 Nahidul Islam,…
9:05 AM ET The ICC panel hearing a dispute between the PCB and BCCI could potentially deliver a “landmark” judgment with reverberations for all intersections between sports and politics. A three-person dispute panel, set up to arbitrate the PCB’s claims for monetary compensation for two bilateral tours the BCCI didn’t honour, finished proceedings in Dubai on Wednesday. There is no indication when the panel, headed by Michael Beloff QC and…
Prithvi Shaw: Among the youngest and fastest debut Test centurions (1:07) The 18-year-old broke a few records en route to his 134 in the first Test against West Indies (1:07) 8:20 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff On day one of the Rajkot Test against West Indies, Prithvi Shaw became the youngest Indian to score a century on Test debut. Here are his thoughts on the innings, shared during an interview with…