7:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hazratullah Zazai, Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi have not only been helping Afghanistan win T20Is left and right, they’ve also now ensured the team representation among the world’s top 10 batsmen, bowlers and allrounders. The latest ICC rankings update had Rashid as the No. 1 bowler. He consolidated his place at the top by picking up four wickets in four balls during the final game…
7:05 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Dominic Sibley will be chasing a fourth century in as many first-class matches when he faces his former club, Surrey, as part of the MCC XI in next month’s Champion County Match in Dubai. Sibley scored 106, 144 not out and 119 in Warwickshire’s last three County Championship Division 2 matches in September 2018. He will be joined by Warwickshire opening partner Will Rhodes in…
Was always trying to attack Bumrah – Maxwell (6:50) Glenn Maxwell speaks after his match-winning century in the Bengaluru T20I (6:50) 7:03 AM ET Australia’s coach Justin Langer has brushed off Glenn Maxwell‘s suggestion he wants to bat higher up the order in the ODI team following his match-winning displays in the Twenty20 series victory over India, pointedly stating that management would “do what’s best for the team” in their…
© AFP England women 208 for 8 (Wyatt 56, Knight 47, Elwiss 33*, Goswami 3-41, Pandey 2-34) beat India women 205 for 8 (Mandhana 66, Raut 56, Brunt 5-28) by two wickets In a tale of two lower-order fightbacks, England prevailed by two wickets to pocket their first championship points on their tour of India. For the hosts, this was another trophy in the bag, allowing them to build on…
6:35 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Dominic Sibley will be chasing a fourth century in as many first-class matches when he faces his former club, Surrey, as part of the MCC XI in next month’s Champion County Match in Dubai. Sibley scored 106, 144 not out and 119 in Warwickshire’s last three County Championship Division 2 matches in September 2018. He will be joined by Warwickshire opening partner Will Rhodes in…
5:59 AM ET ICC chairman Shashank Manohar might feel Test cricket is dying, but David Richardson, the global cricket body’s chief executive, says he has numbers to show that view is incorrect. According to Richardson, based on a survey the ICC carried out last year, Test cricket has a strong and committed fan base of about 700 million, which is close to 68% of the global fan pool of over…
Tamim Iqbal reached his hundred from 100 balls © Getty Images At some points on the first day in Hamilton, Tamim Iqbal looked downright ugly. He crouched a lot more than he usually does, saw the short ball closely and ducked under it. Or he jumped off the ground, to get the body behind the line of the short ball. He nearly played on twice and even when he was…
3:27 AM ET It can be back-breaking to bowl one short ball after another, peppered across 16.2 overs on a relatively warm day. But Neil Wagner has made it his life’s calling to bowl at batsmen’s body, intimidate them, bother them and threaten them eventually into a dismissal. On the first day of the Hamilton Test, his plan worked as he picked 5 for 47, his sixth five-wicket haul in…
Rashid Khan sends one down © AFP Toss Ireland chose to bat v Afghanistan Ireland captain William Porterfield won the toss and opted to bat in the first ODI in Dehradun. Asghar Afghan, meanwhile, said that he was expecting dew later on and would have preferred to bowl first anyway. Asghar said his side was looking at this five-match series as preparation for the World Cup. In a bunch of…
11:02 PM ET Serving a suspension and taking time off to reflect has made KL Rahul more humble, the India opener said on Wednesday. Rahul and Hardik Pandya had been suspended from international duties following controversial remarks on a chat show, before BCCI lifted their suspensions on January 24. “It has humbled me a little bit,” Rahul said. “I obviously respect the opportunity I have got to play for the…