Month: January 2019

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Sri Lankan batsmen ended the three-day practice match in Hobart without a half-century between them in either innings, as they stumbled against the left-arm spin of Jon Holland on day three. The visitors had in fact been modest the entire day, taking only one wicket in their 32.5 overs with the ball before stuttering to 131 for 6 in their second innings. Their only…

3:00 AM ET Rangpur Riders 195 for 6 (Rossouw 61, de Villiers 34, Taskin 4-42) beat Sylhet Sixers 194 for 4 (Sabbir 85, Pooran 47*, Mashrafe 2-31) by four wickets How the game played out Rilee Rossouw‘s fourth fifty of the BPL season powered Rangpur Riders through the second-highest successful chase in the competition’s history. Farhad Reza’s unbeaten 18 off six balls completed the final-over win for the defending champions’…

3:00 AM ET Toss South Africa opt to bowl v Pakistan South Africa opted to bat first after winning the toss on a wind-swept afternoon in Port Elizabeth. In the first of five ODIs against Pakistan, South Africa will look to maintain their perfect start to the tour with a number of changes to the side that won the Test series 3-0. The Player-of-the-Series in the Test series, Duanne Olivier,…

3:00 AM ET Alex Malcolm Sydney Sixers women 4 for 131 (Perry 54*, Tahuhu 1-18) tied with Melbourne Renegades 6 for 131 (Molineux 55, Burns 2-13)Super over Sydney Sixers women0 for 9 beat Melbourne Renegades women 1 for 6 Is there anything Ellyse Perry can’t do? A stunning six in a Super Over saw the Sydney Sixers keep the dream of three consecutive titles alive scraping past the Melbourne Renegades…

3:00 AM ET Brisbane Heat 140 for 7 (Johnson 33, Harris 32*) beat Sydney Thunder 136 for 7 (Priest 44, Blackwell 29, Barsby 3-23) by four runs Brisbane Heat topped Sydney Thunder in a thriller to enter their first-ever WBBL finals. The match came down to the final ball and could have gone the other way, but for a brilliant catch on the deep square leg boundary by Haidee Birkett…

6:24 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the Test series against Sri Lanka with the early stages of a stress fracture in his back. The uncapped Jhye Richardson, who impressed in the one-day series against India, has been named as his replacement. A back injury also kept Hazlewood out of the Test series against Pakistan in the UAE last year, but Australia are confident he…