Month: February 2019

11:04 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Nondescripts Cricket Club (NCC) captain Angelo Perera has achieved the incredibly rare feat of hitting two double-hundreds in a single first-class match. This has happened for only the second time in history,the other time having been way back in 1938, when a 23-year-old Arthur Fagg struck 244 and 202 not out against Essex, in Colchester. Perera hit 201 off 203 balls in the first innings…

3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka 215 and 5 for 87 (Mendis 13*, de Silva 1*) need 429 more runs to beat Australia 5 for 534 dec and 3 for 196 dec Mitchell Starc scythed through Sri Lanka’s batting order for the second time in the Test, reducing them to 5 for 87 at lunch on day four – Australia now well within sight of a rollicking 2-0 series win. Starc…

8:16 PM ET Alex Malcolm Melbourne Stars captain Glenn Maxwell has labelled Ben Dunk‘s controversial dismissal in Sunday night’s clash with the Perth Scorchers “an extraordinary decision”, as yet another BBL match was marred by an umpiring controversy. Dunk was given out caught early in the chase when he mistimed a pull shot to Nick Hobson at square leg who had to dive forward as the ball dipped on him….

7:37 PM ET Alex Malcolm Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has announced that this season will be his last in the Big Bash League as he starts to wind down his illustrious playing career. McCullum informed his Brisbane Heat team-mates in the dressing room at Adelaide Oval on Sunday night after scoring 51 from 39 balls against the Adelaide Strikers to help keep the Heat’s slim finals hopes alive….

1:06 PM ET Trevor Bayliss, the England coach, has admitted that the Test team’s batting may have become “muddled” by the demands for extra aggression in one-day cricket. England were bowled out for 187 and 132 in Antigua, having mustered just 77 in their first innings in Barbados, to give West Indies an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-Tests series, with Bayliss also concerned by the lack of batsmen pushing…

10:25 AM ET West Indies will be without their captain, Jason Holder, for the third Test of the series against England after the ICC suspended him. Holder was held responsible for his team’s slow over rate during the win in Antigua. West Indies wrapped up the three-match series with a second successive win – this time by 10 wickets – within three days in Antigua. They won the first Test…

3:00 AM ET Perth Scorchers 3 for 182 (Turner 69, Plunkett 1-23) beat Melbourne Stars 9 for 155 (Maxwell 61, Coulter-Nile 3-30, Kelly 3-31) by 27 runs Perth Scorchers celebrated stalwart Michael Klinger‘s farewell match in style with a throwback performance marked by powerful batting and clutch bowling to inflict a setback in Melbourne Stars’ semi-final hopes. Even though the cellar dwellers had only pride to play for, the match…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Nepal 104 for 8 (Khadka 29, Jora 28, Naveed 2-6) beat UAE 90 for 8 (Shaiman 30, Shabber 25, Karan 2-13) by 14 runs Sitting through a rare desert rain delay of two hours and 15 minutes was well worth the wait for tourists Nepal, who repeated their ODI series feat of coming back from 0-1 down to win the T20I series 2-1 thanks to…

9:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sarfaraz Ahmed is unhappy that his on-field remarks to Andile Phehlukwayo were turned into “a bigger deal than it was”. Addressing the press for the first time since returning to Pakistan after the ICC imposed a four-match ban on him, Sarfaraz claimed that Phehlukwayo had not considered his remarks racist, and was more offended at what he initially perceived as a comment about his mother….