3:00 AM ET Toss Afghanistan elected to bat v Ireland Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details Ireland have handed a debut to James Cameron-Dow. For Afghanistan: debuts for Ikram Ali Khil and Sayed Shirzad. Playing XIs: Afghanistan: 1 Hazratullah Zazai, 2 Javed Ahmadi, 3 Rahmat Shah, 4 Asghar Afghan (capt.), 5 Hashmatullah Shahidi, 6 Ikram Ali Khil (wk), 7 Mohammad Nabi, 8 Gulbadin Naib, 9 Rashid Khan, 10 Sayed Shirzad, 11…
3:00 AM ET New Zealand 605 for 6 (Williamson 166*, Latham 161) lead Bangladesh 234 all out (Tamim 126, Wagner 5-47) by 371 runs New Zealand continued pummeling Bangladesh’s bowlers as they rose to 605 for 6 at lunch on the third day in Hamilton. Kane Williamson reached his 20th Test century, and in the process also became the fourth from his country to complete 6,000 runs. But the morning…
7:10 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Doctors were concerned that Mitchell Marsh may had suffered a ruptured testicle when he was struck in the box while preparing for the return of the Sheffield Shield. Marsh underwent surgery, after the blow he took while getting throw downs in the nets, which revealed the injury wasn’t as serious as feared and he was suffering from severe bleeding. He was ruled out of the…
3:00 AM ET How the game played out Multan needed to win every one of their remaining games to have a realistic chance of making the playoffs. To say they failed to do that today against Quetta Gladiators today would be something of an understatement. Shoaib Malik’s men turned in perhaps their worst performance all tournament (mind you, there are plenty to choose from) as the tournament’s best side so…
12:58 PM ET Adil Rashid has credited Eoin Morgan’s calm captaincy for giving him the confidence to perform in any given situation, after living up to his “Hoover” nickname with four final-over wickets to settle a run-laden ODI in Grenada on Wednesday. In a contest lit up by a world-record 46 sixes – 14 of which came from the bat of Chris Gayle – it was Morgan’s decision to turn…
3:00 AM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna Peshawar Zalmi 177 for 6 (Dawson 52, Sammy 40, Shadab 2-21) beat Islamabad United 176 (Delport 71, Wahab 2-30, Hasan Ali 2-24) by four wickets How…
9:13 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli made this much very clear ahead of the first ODI in Hyderabad: The IPL will not impact World Cup selection. “I don’t see IPL having any influence on World Cup selection,” he said. “I think that will be a very radical sort of analysis. We need to have a solid team. Before we head into the IPL, we need be absolutely clear of…
9:13 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ashton Agar, the Australia left-arm spinner, has joined Birmingham Bears for the entirety of this season’s Vitality Blast campaign, including the knockout stages should the team progress. Agar, 25, has played 15 T20Is for Australia, and was a key member of the Perth Scorchers teams that won the Big Bash League in 2014-15 and 2016-17. He is best remembered in England for his remarkable Test…
Jos Buttler leaves the field after his 150 from 77 balls © Getty Images Big picture It worked out all right in the end for Grenada’s cricket faithful, as their first taste of international action for four years was reduced from a two-match festival of cricket to one single afternoon of six-smoking carnage. After Monday’s rain had given way to Wednesday’s clear skies, it was as though the England and…
‘Will have to play balancing act with fast bowlers’ – Finch (4:52) Australia’s limited-overs captain talks about his side’s last lap ahead of the World Cup (4:52) 7:15 AM ET Australia’s attack on tour in India is already depleted in the injury-enforced absence of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood. Under the circumstances, they certainly don’t want to risk losing Pat Cummins too in the lead-up to the World Cup. With…