7:33 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South African allrounder Ryan McLaren, 35, announced Thursday that he is retiring from first-class cricket. McLaren posted a screengrab on Twitter where he said it was the “right time” and that it was “time for some white ball fun.” “I have learned from many to know when it’s the right time.The time has come for me to retire from first class cricket. I’m grateful to…
Adelaide Strikers 3 for 170 (Weatherald 82, Carey 54, Milenko 1-19) beat Hobart Hurricanes 7 for 169 (Wade 88, Laughlin 3-31) by seven wickets An electrifying century stand from Jake Weatherald and Alex Carey helped Adelaide Strikers break a four-game losing streak in a massive upset over Hobart Hurricanes in Launceston. The win kept the Strikers’ slim finals hopes alive, while the Hurricanes lost for the third time batting first…
Trent Boult exults after picking up a wicket © Getty Images There had been little evidence of it during the first three ODIs, but swing made a belated appearance in the fourth ODI in Hamilton. It’s a rare sight in white-ball cricket – so much so that a struggling Tim Southee finds himself out of New Zealand’s ODI attack – and when it’s there it spooks batting teams. And when…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies women 160 for 2 (Dottin 90*, Nation 50*) beat Pakistan women 89 (Maroof 38, Connell 3-29) by 71 runs West Indies women began their tour of Pakistan in a dominant fashion, with a 71-run win over the hosts in the first T20I in Karachi on Thursday. Half-centuries from Deandra Dottin and Chedean Nation led the charge with the bat, with the former striking…
3:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Melbourne Renegades legspinner Cameron Boyce believes he could do a job for Australia at the World Cup despite having never played ODIs. Boyce, 29, played seven T20Is between 2014 and 2016, and took eight wickets at an economy rate of 6.60 and a strike rate of 17.2. Boyce has had an outstanding BBL season thus far, after crossing from Hobart Hurricanes to Melbourne Renegades. He…
Tim Paine didn’t live up to the promise of his early days, but he has stepped up when Australia needed him to 2:01 AM ET Good sporting teams, it is said, know how to respond to defeat. Great ones, however, become masters of maintaining their hunger and rage in the aftermath of victory. Australia’s national team right now is a long way from becoming a great or even a good…
3:00 AM ET Big Picture A new Test ground – Australia’s 11th and the second to host its first match this season – brings the international summer to a close with the home side aiming to secure a 2-0 victory and finish a difficult campaign on a high. Sri Lanka, while still clinging to that dream of their first Test victory in the country, would probably take being competitive as…
10:46 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff If Sri Lanka didn’t have enough problems to deal with concerns emerged over the fitness of Suranga Lakmal, their leading seam bowler, on the eve of the second Test in Canberra with him suffering from a stiff back. Already stripped of three pace bowlers originally in the squad – Nuwan Pradeep, Lahiru Kumara (both hamstring injuries) and Dushmantha Chameera (ankle) – they now face making…
Former umpire Dara Dotiwalla, who stood in the Madras tied Test between India and Australia in September 1986 Alagappan Muthu / © ESPNcricinfo Ltd Former umpire Dara Dotiwalla, who stood in the famous tied Test in Chennai between India and Australia in 1986, has died aged 85 on Wednesday. He officiated in six Tests and eight ODIs from 1982 to 1988. Dotiwalla, who made his umpiring debut in the India-England…
3:00 AM ET New Zealand chose to field v India Readers from the US can watch the New Zealand v India series LIVE here, on ESPN+ Pretty close to the World Cup, New Zealand showed they were not fixed on the idea of Colin Munro opening the innings. After they won the toss and decided to field – hoping for some dew to help their chase later – Kane Williamson…