3:41 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Gayle believes opponents are still scared of him, but the 39-year-old West Indian opening batsman admits that it’s no longer as easy playing against youngsters as it used to be. Gayle, who is set to play his fifth – and last – World Cup, has been a part of the tournament each time it has been held since his ODI debut in September 1999….
May 21, 2019 David Hussey, the former Australia batsman, is expected to be unveiled as the new coach of the Melbourne Stars for next summer’s Big Bash League as early as this week, after winning a duel with the ex-Victoria coach David Saker for the role to replace the outgoing Stephen Fleming. Having served in various assistant coaching roles since his playing retirement, ESPNcricinfo has learned that Hussey was ultimately…
Dimuth Karunaratne raises his bat after reaching a half-century on his ODI captaincy debut 1:26 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka’s less-heralded players helped ease through the side’s first test in the UK, as they beat Scotland by 35 runs via the DLS method. Opener Avishka Fernando, who had had a poor tour of South Africa earlier this year, produced 74 off 78 balls, while Dimuth Karunaratne, on ODI…
6:13 PM ET Eoin Morgan says that the process of whittling England’s World Cup squad down to the final 15-man party was “the toughest decision I’ve ever been a part of”, but believes that he personally, and his team as a whole, have never been better equipped to make the big calls, having grown together in the four years since the 2015 campaign. Speaking at the launch of England’s World…
5:49 PM ET Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo Australia and the West Indies will play their first World Cup practice match “behind closed doors” on an out ground in Hampshire on Wednesday. The sides were officially scheduled to play two warm-up games before the start of the tournament but an extra hit-out was agreed between the camps when Stuart Law was West Indies’ coach. Before…
Steven Mullaney acknowledges his fifty © Getty Images Hampshire 310 and 3 for 1 lead Nottinghamshire 239 (Mullaney 102, Barker 3-46) by 74 runs Steven Mullaney first learned about cricket in Golborne, a town which now lies in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. The place is no sort of Orwellian wasteland but neither is it Ambridge. And it certainly has next door to nowt in common with the pastoral glory…
May 19, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 214 for 4 (Hemphrey 75, Root 53*) trail Derbyshire 378 (Reece 111, Hughes 82, Dal 64) by 164 runs On the day it emerged he had been suspended from bowling over a suspect action, Glamorgan’s Billy Root led a fightback with the bat on the second day of the Division Two match against Derbyshire at Derby. Joe Root’s younger brother arrived at the…
May 20, 2019 Jon Culley Sussex 370 for 6 (Jordan 158*, Brown 153*) v Northamptonshire If Chris Jordan was feeling frustrated at watching his slim chance of making the cut for England’s World Cup squad disappear before his eyes over the past two weeks, then there are not many better ways in which he could have got it out of his system. His career-best unbeaten 158, the third century of…
3:00 AM ET David Hopps at Taunton Warwickshire 135 and 103 for 6 (Hain 43*) need a further 136 to beat Somerset 209 and 164 (Norwell 7-41) Paul Farbrace would not be human if just before start of play he did not feel a tiny pang of regret when England’s World Cup squad was announced over the PA system. Timing does not always work out perfectly, and to accept Warwickshire’s…
3:00 AM ET Surrey 439 and 11 for 0 lead Kent 294 (Dickson 128, Crawley 63, Batty 3-49) by 156 runs In deciding on the readiness of young players to compete at the highest level, it is often said “if they’re good enough, they’re old enough”. Seldom though do you hear people opining that “if he’s good enough, he’s young enough”. In the 41-year-old Gareth Batty and the 37-year-old Rikki…