Month: November 2018

USA captain Jim Reid holds up the Auty Cup after USA’s victory over Canada in 1966  1:53 AM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna Another of USA’s fine generation of cricket stalwarts in southern…

3:00 AM ET England 342 (Foakes 107, Dilruwan 5-75) and 111 for 3 (Jennings 60*, Stokes 14*) lead Sri Lanka 203 (Mathews 52, Moeen 4-66) by 250 runs Sri Lanka struck three times on the second morning, removing Rory Burns, Moeen Ali and Joe Root, but England continued to swell their mammoth lead through a Keaton Jennings half-century, on a wearing pitch. At a venue in which the highest successful…

9:38 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 (capt), Alex Carey, Ashton Agar, Jason Behrendorff, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Ben McDermott, D’Arcy…

12:38 PM ET Jon Culley Jamie Overton believes he’s ready to become one of the best fast bowlers in the world, after learning to bowl within himself until the time is right to go full throttle. Overton, 24, has been on England’s radar ever since word began to filter out from Taunton that here was a bowler who could bowl in excess of 90mph. He made his first senior squad…

Play 01:10 What was it like when England last played a Test without Cook? Arise, Sir Alastair? He was England’s hero in whites for more than a decade, a record-breaking run-scorer and distinguished former captain, but Alastair Cook could be in line for even higher honours after being proposed for an early knighthood. Cook retired from England duty in September, having amassed 12,472 Test runs and 33 hundreds – both…

9:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Melbourne Renegades have signed left-arm seamers Usman Shinwari and Harry Gurney for the upcoming Big Bash League. Pakistan’s Shinwari will be available for the first seven games, with England and Nottinghamshire seamer Gurney taking over for the second half of the season. Shinwari, 24, has played 22 limited-overs internationals for Pakistan, featuring in the third T20I against Australia last month. He plays for Karachi Kings…