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CSA’s transformation policy requires that the national team has an average of 55% (or six) players of colour in each game across formats during any given season May 30, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket South Africa’s transformation targets will not apply at the World Cup, and that’s just fine with Kagiso Rabada, who believes that transformation “should happen at the grassroots”. “At a professional level, players should be picked on merit,”…
Faf Du Plessis of South Africa addresses the media during the Group Stage match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 5:42 PM ET It wasn’t quite the chronicle of a defeat foretold but South Africa talked this game down so much in the run-up, it did feel, long before the actual end, inevitable. One of the messages that kept coming out through to game day was that the format…
Steven Smith, Justin Langer and David Warner during the Australia World Cup squad’s trip to Gallipoli 5:00 PM ET Steven Smith and David Warner are humans too. They made a mistake – a pretty big mistake – and have paid a price for it – a pretty heavy price. Stop booing them. That’s the plea from Australia coach Justin Langer to crowds in England after the duo were made to…
Stokes pulls off early contender for catch of the tournament (1:36) Ben Stokes took a sensational diving catch at deep midwicket to get rid of Andile Phehlukwayo (1:36) 4:50 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff It’s been described as one of the greatest catches of all time. Here’s what viewers, commentators, team-mates and the man himself said about Ben Stokes’ incredible grab to dismiss Andile Phehlukwayo off the bowling of Adil Rashid….
David Warner looks on during an Australia nets session at Bristol County Ground 4:47 PM ET If David Warner pulls up all right on Friday, he is set to open the innings for Australia in their first World Cup outing on Saturday against Afghanistan. Struggling with a sore right glute, Warner was put through a fitness test at the start of Australia’s training session Bristol on Thursday. Following the test,…
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3:00 AM ET Yorkshire181 (Edwards 5-49, Fuller 3-51) and 332 for 5 dec (Ballance 100, Kohler-Cadmore 69, Tattersall 50) drew with Hampshire 235 (Fuller 54*, Northeast 50) and 158 for 5 (Weatherley 66, Rossouw 54*) It was easy to give one’s attention solely to the fluxions of this fine match today. Many Yorkshire spectators at Headingley did so and were rewarded for their quiet devotion by their favourites’ determined attempt…
2:27 PM ET Pakistan batsmen have scored nine centuries this year in 15 ODIs. That is the most by any team. Yet, stunningly, all those hundreds have come in defeats. And that might well be down to the pace at which those runs have come. The numbers suggest so. What might hurt Pakistan further is that they don’t seem to have identified their slow scoring rate as an issue. Since…
3:00 AM ET Jon Culley at Edgbaston Warwickshire 293 (Norwell 64) and 166 for 9 dec (Rhodes 54, Batty 8-64) beat Surrey 188 (Foakes 57*) and 141 (Clarke 51*, Patel 8-36) by 130 runs Risk-taking cricket of a kind all too rarely seen enabled struggling Warwickshire to break their losing habit in spectacular style by defeating County Champions Surrey at the end of an intriguing match that has probably ended…