3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Nepal 111 for 6 (Dipendra 47*, Sultan 2-9) beat United Arab Emirates 107 (Rizwan 44, Bohara 3-20) by four wickets Dipendra Singh Airee spared Nepal’s blushes with an unbeaten 47 as Nepal snuck past UAE by four wickets in a low-scoring thriller at ICC Academy in Dubai. Dipendra helped rescue the side after a top-order collapse left Nepal at 46 for 5 in the 11th…
7:48 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Opener Lizelle Lee has been withdrawn from South Africa’s squad after failing to meet the team’s fitness standards. Lee, 26, is a senior member of South Africa’s squad, having played 73 ODIs, 57 T20Is and a solitary Test match. She had rejoined South Africa’s squad for the limited-overs series against Sri Lanka at the end of the month after turning out for Melbourne Stars in…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Comilla Victorians 127 (Tamim 38, Rubel 4-30) beat Dhaka Dynamites 126 for 9 (Pollard 34, Russell 30*, Saifuddin 4-22) by one run How the game played out The Bangladesh Premier League returned to Dhaka after the Chattogram leg of matches, pitting Comilla Victorians against Dhaka Dynamites in what turned out to be a low-scoring, well-contested affair. Chasing 128 for victory, the Dynamites stuttered at the…
6:45 AM ET Will Pucovski, the 20-year-old in Australia’s squad, has been released to return home from the Canberra Test after asking to continue his progression from mental health issues that he faced earlier this summer. Having been picked to face Sri Lanka, Pucovski was left out of the XI for both Brisbane and Canberra Tests, leaving him in limbo on the fringes of the squad away from home. This…
India play warm-up games against New Zealand and Bangladesh before the World Cup 6:25 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India will take on New Zealand and Bangladesh in warm-up fixtures preceding the 2019 World Cup in England in Wales. The games will be played at The Oval and Cardiff’s Sophia Gardens respectively on May 25 and May 28, while the remaining fixtures, squeezed between May 24 and May 28, will be…
6:04 AM ET George Dobell in Antigua Kemar Roach admits he is “very proud” of himself after another eye-catching performance with the ball against England. Roach followed his 5 for 17 in the first innings of the Barbados Test with 4 for 30 in Antigua to help West Indies take a grip on the second Test. Afterwards he expressed his delight both at “backing up” the Barbados performance, and the…
5:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India will start the 2019 World Cup as favourites, according to Rahul Dravid. The India A coach believes India are playing “very good cricket” at the moment, and hoped they could peak at the right moment. Speaking to journalists during India A’s ongoing home series against England Lions, Dravid said he expected the pitches in England to be flat and unlike those he experienced during…
4:39 AM ET Australia’s vice-captain Travis Head raised his eyes to the heavens upon reaching his first Test century, and later spoke tearfully of how he had dedicated the innings to the late Phillip Hughes, his mentor and teammate until his death in 2014. Head played a classic counter-attacking innings in the company of opener Joe Burns to turn a wobbly Australian start against Sri Lanka into a dominant day…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies women 132 for 6 (Campbelle 41, Knight 32, Amin 2-24) beat Pakistan women 132 for 4 (Maroof 31, Dottin 2-26) in the Super Over A thrilling contest between Pakistan and West Indies in their second women’s T20I ended in a tie, and then it was over to Deandra Dottin to smash it like only she can and give the visiting side victory. The…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand women 153 for 2 (Satterthwaite 66*, Bates 57, Poonam 1-31) beat India women 149 (Deepti 52, Peterson 4-28, Tahuhu 3-26) by eight wickets Anna Peterson and Lea Tahuhu did most of the damage, after Amy Satterthwaite asked India to bat, picking up seven wickets between them to shoot the visitors out for 149. Suzie Bates and Satterthwaite then helmed the chase, both hitting…