3:00 AM ET Alex Malcolm Tasmania 0 for 16 trail South Australia 257 (Head 50, Mennie 43*, Bird 4-53) by 241 runs Tasmania seamer Jackson Bird reminded the selectors of his skill with the Dukes ball claiming four wickets to give the Tigers the upper hand against South Australia on in Adelaide. Bird, who has played one Test in England during the 2013 Ashes but hasn’t featured for Australia since…
3:00 AM ET Alex Malcolm Western Australia 5 for 183 (Bancroft 73*, Whiteman 66) v New South Wales Cameron Bancroft made a statement with a patient unbeaten 73 to hold Western Australia’s first innings together against New South Wales on a rain-shortened day at Bankstown Oval in Sydney. In his first first-class match since infamous Cape Town Test, Bancroft faced 235 balls and struck just four boundaries and a six…
2:55 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff ICC chairman Shashank Manohar has said that security would always remain a “top priority” for the global governing body of the sport, and that the BCCI would be shown the security plans put in place for the World Cup during an ICC meeting in March. Manohar’s comments came in the wake of the BCCI sending a letter to the ICC heads raising security issues at…
3:00 AM ET Alex Malcolm Queensland 4 for 308 (Hemphrey 87*, Burns 60, Labuschagne 59) v Victoria Queensland batsman Charlie Hemphrey upstaged a handful of Ashes aspirants with an unbeaten 87 to put the Bulls in control on day one against Victoria at the Junction Oval. Hemphrey was one of the three Queensland batsmen to pass fifty, along with Test incumbents Joe Burns and Marnus Labuschagne, but he was the…
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10:16 PM ET They may have struggled to qualify for the tournament and they may be down at No. 9 in the rankings, but few teams are going to relish playing West Indies in the World Cup later this year. For, when Eoin Morgan admitted his England team had been “beaten by a better side today”, he was not just being magnanimous. It was an accurate reflection on the match….
Mohammad Sami ended with figures of 4-0-8-5 © Chris Whiteoak Islamabad United 158 for 9 (Bell 54, Delport 29, Sameen Gul 3-29) beat Peshawar Zalmi 146 all out (Pollard 51, Sami 3-22, Musa 3-25) by 12 runs How the game played out As has been the case every year, Islamabad United started this season slowly, winning just one of three games. However, this season has begun to emulate the others…
1:22 PM ET South Africa were “complacent” heading into this Sri Lanka series. This is not the opinion of reporters, fans, or commentators, but that of the team’s own batting coach Dale Benkenstein, after he watched his team collapse to 128 all out on the second day in Port Elizabeth. Right through the series, South Africa have been modest with the bat, recording a highest-score of 259 across four completed…
12:23 PM ET Tom Harrison, the ECB’s chief executive, has admitted he was “concerned” by the ECB’s failure to obtain a visa for Saqib Mahmood to travel to India. Mahmood, the 21-year-old Lancashire fast bowler, was due to go to India as part of the England Lions limited-overs squad earlier this year. But delays in obtaining his visa, caused in part by his Pakistan heritage, eventually saw him replaced in…
12:02 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff What players, coaches and other voices from the cricket world have said about India potentially boycotting their World Cup meeting with Pakistan Ravi Shastri, India head coach (to Times Now) “It’s entirely left to the BCCI and the government. They know exactly what is happening and they will take a call. We will go by what they decide. If the government says it’s that sensitive…