Cameron Bancroft speaks to the media in the aftermath of the ball-tampering scandal 10:47 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cameron Bancroft said that he, Steven Smith and David Warner have “stuck by each other” during their bans after the ball-tampering scandal in Newlands last year. Bancroft, who was handed a nine-month sanction, was the first to return to action in late December and has marked his comeback to Sheffield Shield action…
3:00 AM ET Islamabad United 147 for 3 (Ronchi 67*, Samit Patel 45*, Imad 2-27) beat Karachi Kings 143 for 6 (Dunk 49*, Ameer Yamin 35*, Faheem 3-26) by seven wickets How the game played out Having gotten over their traditional slow start, Islamabad have begun cranking through the gears. A Luke Ronchi special – 67 off 35 – was more than enough to see off Karachi in a below-par…
1:16 PM ET Mark Wood has admitted he is “one of the guys under threat” by the qualification of Jofra Archer as an England player. Wood has been one of the success stories of England’s tour of the Caribbean. After an explosive return to Test cricket in St Lucia, where he claimed his first five-wicket haul and was timed at 94.6mph, he has bowled with similar pace in the ODIs…
3:00 AM ET Quetta Gladiators 148 for 7 (Sarfaraz 52*, Ahsan Ali 40, Haris Rauf 2-25) beat Lahore Qalandars 143 for 7 (De Villiers 45, Sohail Akhtar 29, Ghulam Mudassar 3-21, Sohail Tanvir 2-21) by three wickets How the game unfolded Quetta Gladiators benefitted from Lahore’s inability to hit the stumps with six missed run-out chances as Sarfaraz Ahmed showed his catlike survival skills to keep his side undefeated in…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Afghanistan 278 for 3 (Hazratullah 162*, Ghani 73) beat Ireland 194 for 6 (Stirling 91, O’Brien 37, Rashid 4-25) by 84 runs The biggest team total in all T20 cricket. The second-highest individual score in T20Is. The most sixes by a batsman in a T20I innings. The biggest partnership for any wicket in all T20s. The curator at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium rolled out…
This series a way to test ourselves against the best – Finch (7:08) Australia captain Aaron Finch addresses the media ahead of the first T20I against India (7:08) 10:04 AM ET There aren’t any spots being warmed for players who are currently outside the team, according to Australia captain Aaron Finch. He was responding to a query on David Warner’s possible return ahead of the World Cup. Looking at the…
7:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka have made history in South Africa, becoming only the third team overall – after England and Australia – and first from Asia to breach the fortress in a Test series. It came against all calculations. After all, Sri Lanka have had very few reasons to cheer on the cricket field – or off it, for that matter – in recent months. Not to…
7:22 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India knocked over. Pakistan brushed aside. What were the odds of Sri Lanka suffering the same fate? Very high. The fact that they’d been soundly thrashed in New Zealand and Australia leading into the tour made it that much more probable. However, South Africa failed to turn up, and their batting crumbled in four successive innings. This was a huge regret for Faf du Plessis,…
Kusal Mendis and Oshada Fernando react in the field © Getty Images Sri Lanka 154 (Dickwella 42, Rabada 4-38) and 197 for 2 (Mendis 84*, Oshada 75*, Olivier 1-46) beat South Africa 222 (De Kock 86, Vishwa 3-62, Rajitha 3-67) and 128 (Du Plessis 50*, Lakmal 4-39, de Silva 3-36) by eight wickets Sri Lanka arrived in South Africa in a state of utter turmoil – both on and off…
4:36 AM ET India captain Virat Kohli spoke of the specific challenges to overcome as the team hits the final stretch before the World Cup in May. Among them, he said, was the lack of ODIs India have scheduled. As things stand, India will play their last international series before the World Cup – two T20Is and five ODIs – against Australia over the next few weeks, before the IPL…