Month: March 2019

3:00 AM ET Match abandoned USA 152 for 7 (Taylor 72, Malhotra 28, Zahoor 2-30) v UAE 29 for 2 (Jessy Singh 2-18) Nine balls short of making it an official match and well ahead of Duckworth-Lewis for the five-over mark, USA were denied victory on their T20I debut as persistent rains that had already reduced USA’s innings to 15 overs and UAE’s chase to 13 overs finally ended the…

‘We would have been inside the mosque had we reached 3-4 mins earlier’ – Khaled Mashud (7:16) Bangladesh team manager recounts their ‘lucky’ escape from near the site of the terror attack in Christchurch (7:16) 8:40 AM ET “If we had arrived there even five minutes earlier, we would all be killed.” Almost every Bangladesh player who had been on the fateful bus to the Christchurch mosque had these words…

7:48 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Guyana have been confirmed as the WICB Professional Cricket League Regional Four-Day Tournament 2018-19 after Leeward Islands, second on the table and needing the full 24 points on offer from their last game against Barbados, collapsed for 90 in their first innings. It’s the fifth title win in a row for Guyana, making them the first team in the Cricket West Indies Professional Cricket League…

6:50 AM ET It’s all up for grabs at the top of England’s Test batting order. Yet another series has come and gone – this time a 2-1 defeat in the Caribbean – with none of the incumbents making a definitive case for retention going into this summer’s Ashes. Tom Westley knows that feeling well. It’s been nigh on two years since Westley made the last of his five Test…

5:34 AM ET Liam Brickhill JP Duminy will play his final ODI in South Africa against Sri Lanka on Saturday after announcing that he will retire from the format after the World Cup in England later this year. He will continue to be available for T20 internationals. Duminy, who announced his retirement from Test and first-class cricket in 2017 to put more focus on his white-ball game, feels “the time…

4:25 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand allrounder Lucy Doolan has announced retirement from all cricket, bringing a 14-year long career to an end. Doolan, who has played in 40 ODIs and 33 T20Is, made her last appearance for New Zealand during the 2013 World Cup. Making her debut in 2008 against England in Lincoln, Doolan scored 868 runs and took 60 wickets across the two formats. She also occasionally…

Mar 14, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Stumps Tasmania 197 and 0 for 54 (Silk 20*, Doolan 20*) need another 400 runs to beat Western Australia 367 and 8 for 283 dec (Whiteman 93, Short 61, Bell 3-72) Sam Whiteman‘s 93 and D’Arcy Short’s quickfire 61 helped Western Australia extend their overnight lead of 172 to 453 before declaring in the day’s final session. Tasmania, needing an improbable 454 to win, were…

4:10 AM ET Members of the Bangladesh team were just “about 50 yards from the mosque”, which was the site of one of two terror attacks in Christchurch on Friday morning that resulted in multiple fatalities, Khaled Mashud, the team manager, told reporters at the team hotel. The third and final Test match of the series was cancelled following the incidents. “This was a kind of accident that we would…