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. Western Australia 243 & 3 for 195 (Marsh 98, Cartwright 84*, Webster 1-15) beat Tasmania 226 & 208…
7:04 AM ET Umar Farooq Eighteen years after it was made public, and in the process of putting together its new cricket committee, the PCB appears to have disowned the Justice Qayyum Report on match-fixing. At the time it was released, in May 2000, the 150-page report by the former chief justice of Lahore High Court (Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum) was acknowledged as the most comprehensive report into corruption in…
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. Queensland 231 & 3 for 163 (Hemphrey 76*, Heazlett 41*, Mennie 2-24) trail South Australia 505 (Cooper 178,…
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. New South Wales 159 & 9 for 178 (Larkin 53, Patterson 50, Boland 5-48) trail Victoria 9 for…
Toss India opt to bowl v West Indies Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah wait for proceedings to begin © AFP Under sunny skies, the India captain Virat Kohli chose to chase in Pune against West Indies, while announcing three changes to the side that tied in Visakhapatnam. India brought back fast-bowling reinforcements in the form of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah – who were rested for the first two ODIs…
11:33 PM ET Banned Australia batsman David Warner has been involved in a bizarre incident during a grade match in Sydney on Saturday where he walked off the pitch mid-innings. Playing for Randwick-Petersham against Western Suburbs, Warner left the field when on 35. The suggestion from the ground was that he had taken offence to a sledge, although the nature of the comment was unknown. The match came to halt…
7:45 PM 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. Aaron Finch has replaced Tim Paine as Australia’s ODI captain ahead of the three-match series against South Africa…
3:01 PM ET Liam Brickhill Zimbabwe have not won a game since March, and their last three one-day series against Pakistan, South Africa and Bangladesh have all resulted in whitewashes. A career-best innings from Sean Williams allowed Zimbabwe to reach their highest total of the series in the third match against Bangladesh, but the wheels came off in the field and the result was yet another punishing defeat. Something, Williams…
© Getty Images Rohit Sharma, M Vijay and Parthiv Patel have all been recalled for the Test series in Australia in December and January. Prithvi Shaw, who shone with a century on Test debut, was picked as one of the openers apart from Vijay and KL Rahul, and the pace attack was back to its full strength of Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav. Allrounder…
MS Dhoni, India’s regular wicketkeeper, has not been named in India’s T20I squads to face West Indies and Australia in November. Squad to face West Indies: Rohit Sharma (C), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Dinesh Karthik, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed, Umesh Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem Squad to face Australia Virat Kohli (C), Rohit (vc), Shikhar,…