1:07 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India opener Smriti Mandhana will turn out for Hobart Hurricanes in the fourth season of the Women’s Big Bash League, having previously played for Brisbane Heat in season two. Meanwhile, Harmanpreet Kaur has extended her deal with Sydney Thunder and will return for her third successive season in the tournament. While Mandhana had a lukewarm 2016-17 season in the Big Bash League with just 89…
12:06 AM ET Barny Read The T10 League is eyeing international expansion, with Shaji Ul Mulk, the league’s chairman, in discussions with ‘a few’ international boards over taking the tournament abroad in 2019. The ICC-sanctioned event currently operates in conjunction and with the approval of the Emirates Cricket Board at its UAE home. Ul Mulk is adamant that the format will only exist in commercially viable markets, where it is…
1:00 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Yasir Shah has only just recuperated from a hipbone injury, and is feeling his way back in since returning to full fitness after the series against Australia. Here in Dubai, with Pakistan needing to lift their game by several notches to level the series, he quickly understood the need to play a key role in giving his side a big lead. At the end of…
12:53 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England women will host West Indies next summer as part of their build-up to the Ashes, with the series against Australia once again contested on a points system across all three formats. Taunton is set to host its first women’s Test since 2006, while the Ashes will begin on July 2 at Leicester’s Grace Road ground, venue for the first two of three ODIs. Canterbury…
12:18 PM ET Diana Edulji, the former India women captain who is part of the two-member Committee of Administrators (CoA), has said the CoA will not interfere in the controversy surrounding Mithali Raj‘s omission from India’s side for their Women’s World T20 semi-final against England last week. Raj, India’s senior-most player and their highest run-getter in the T20 format, was left out despite being passed fit – she had missed…
Imran Tahir goes off in celebration © MSL The Mzansi Super League attracted a live television audience in excess of 3.4 million South African viewers during it’s opening weekend that featured four matches. The league is only just starting to gain traction and attract fans to matches as summer sets in, but TV figures suggest the league has already struck up significant interest from viewers watching at home. Iffy weather,…
9:54 AM ET George Dobell in Colombo Jack Leach has described his run-out of Kusal Mendis on the fourth afternoon in Colmbo as “the best moment” of his career to date. Leach finished the series as England’s equal-leading wicket-taker – he and Moeen Ali both claimed 18 – but it was the moment of brilliance in the field that gave him most pleasure. That’s probably understandable, too. Leach is a…
9:34 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Somerset have confirmed the return of Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali for the whole of the 2019 season. Azhar, 33, will be available to play a full part in the Specsavers Championship and the Royal London Cup. Azhar is currently Pakistan’s leading active Test run-scorer, but he retired earlier this month from playing ODIs. With the 2019 summer dominated in part by the World Cup in…
© Associated Press England have shown they can no longer be considered “a one-trick pony” who can only win at home, according to their captain, Joe Root. While they have long had a strong reputation at home, where their seamers are often able to exploit helpful conditions and a Duke’s ball, England’s results away from home have been far less impressive. Going into this tour, they had not won any…
Root’s England emulate Ponting’s Australia (0:50) England became only the second non-Asian side to inflict a 3-0 whitewash in Asia (0:50) 8:11 AM ET Ben Stokes turned matches, and Sri Lanka’s batting lacks maturity, but even with all that, and despite the 3-0 result, there wasn’t much separating the teams. These are Sri Lanka coach Chandika Hathurusingha‘s views after Sri Lanka were whitewashed at home by England. While in the…