Month: October 2018

3:00 AM ET Alex MalcolmESPN Close Alex Malcolm is a Melbourne-based sports journalist and broadcaster. He has been a long-time contributor to ESPNcricinfo and reported for the AFL website for four seasons. He has also worked as a television commentator calling Australian Rules Football, Athletics and Tennis for a number of networks. Australia women 4 for 149 (Healy 57, Villani 50) beat New Zealand women 8 for 145 (Bates 77,…

5:52 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Keep up to date with all the movements around the counties during the off-season as preparations are made for the 2019 season Derbyshire IN: Mattie McKiernanOUT: Ben Slater (Nottinghamshire), Will Davis (Leicestershire)OVERSEAS: Durham IN: Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Ben Raine (Leicestershire)OUT: Paul Collingwood (retired)OVERSEAS: Cameron Bancroft (Aus) Essex IN:OUT: James Foster (retired), Matt Dixon, Ashar Zaidi, Callum Taylor (all released)OVERSEAS: Peter Siddle (Aus) Glamorgan IN:OUT: Aneurin…

5:44 AM ET George Dobell Arron Lilley has joined Leicestershire on a two-year-contract. Lilley, an offspinning allrounder, was released by Lancashire at the end of the season and joins seamers Chris Wright, from Warwickshire, and Will Davis, from Derbyshire, in signing for Leicestershire. Lilley developed through the Lancashire system and has a decent record in all forms of the game. Due to Lancashire’s strength in spin bowling, however, he struggled…

5:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan have added allrounder Mohammad Hafeez to their 17-man squad for the two-Test series against Australia in the UAE. Hafeez will fly out to Dubai on the first available flight, ahead of the first Test that begins in a week’s time on October 7. Hafeez played the last of his 50 Tests so far back in August 2016. More to follow… Source: ESPN Crickinfo

3:07 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shane Warne has revealed in a new book that he felt “totally let down” by Steve Waugh when the latter dropped him from the playing XI in the fourth Test against West Indies in 1999. He also described his former Australia captain as “the most selfish player I ever played with, and was only worried about averaging 50”. Heading to the Caribbean, Waugh had just…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A soggy outfield at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad meant the third T20I between West Indies women and South Africa women was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Sunday. South Africa needed to win the match to keep their hopes of a series-victory alive, but a tropical rain storm earlier in the day ensured that there would be no play possible. The result…