Month: May 2019

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa women 127 for 1 (Lee 75*, de Klerk 37*) beat Pakistan women 125 for 5 (Dar 28, Ismail 1-16) by nine wickets A collective bowling performance followed by opener Lizelle Lee‘s third fifty-plus score in four T20Is helped South Africa women clinch the five-match series 3-2 against Pakistan women in Benoni. After limiting Pakistan to 125 for 5, Lee and nineteen-year-old Nadine de…

8:39 AM ET Paul Edwards The last domestic final played at Lord’s will not take place in September. There will be no sense of summer’s farewell, a last hurrah for careless heat before football recolonises sport. Such occasions belong to distant seasons, when Lancashire or Kent always seemed to be playing and St John’s Wood was packed with supporters making a weekend of it in what was still the big…

7:35 AM ET 0.1 starts over the wicket, ambles in and pitches it up outside off… and Roy carves it to backward point first ball! … well, England’s plan was to be more attacking… And that was how ESPNcricinfo’s ball-by-ball commentary recorded the dawn of England’s brave new world, in June 2015: their first completed ODI since the traumas of that year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. As…

1:50 AM ET Ricky Ponting has declared that Australia’s World Cup chances will be defined by how well Aaron Finch’s team use spin bowling and also bat against it, having only recently placed fresh emphasis on this component of their ODI set-up after ignoring it for some years. Part of Justin Langer’s coaching group as an assistant for the tournament, Ponting provides enormous experience both of playing in World Cups…

‘Wanted to bat, bat and bat’ – Ajinkya Rahane (1:24) Ajinkya Rahane discussed adjusting to English conditions after scoring a century on debut for Hampshire (1:24) 3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards at Newport Nottinghamshire 239 and 42 for 2 need a further 397 runs to beatHampshire 310 and 365 for 5 dec (Northeast 130, Rahane 119) A scorebook is cricket’s public record and its private music. In addition to being…

3:00 AM ET Kent 294 and 46 for 1 need a further 380 to beat Surrey 439 and 280 (Curran 80, Borthwick 58, Milnes 4-74) “We wait. We are bored. No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it.” Samuel Beckett’s Vladimir may have had more cause to ponder the meaninglessness of existence than most, but for much of the third day at Beckenham we were all…

1:55 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England batsman Alex Hales and Sri Lanka seamers Lasith Malinga and Isuru Udana were among the big gainers in the 2019 Caribbean Premier League draft, bagging USD 160,000 each after being picked up in the first round. Hales went to Barbados Tridents, Malinga to St Lucia Stars, and Udana to St Kitts & Nevis Patriots. Andre Russell and Dwayne Bravo were retained by Jamaica Tallawahs…