3:00 AM ET Valkerie Baynes England win toss, bowl, versus Ireland England have won the toss and elected to bowl in their delayed ODI against Ireland in Dublin. The match was put back by two hours and reduced to 45 overs per side amid concerns over a soggy outfield after overnight rain, with particular concerns over an area at backward point and the bowlers’ run-up at one end. The players…
May 2, 2019 Warren Deutrom could have been forgiven for peeking nervously through his curtains this morning. For Deutrom, Cricket Ireland’s chief executive since 2006, knows only too well both how important good weather could be to a decent attendance for the ODI at Malahide, but also how much the organisation requires the finance generated by strong ticket sales. So precarious have Cricket Ireland’s finances been in recent months that…
4:07 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Which is the better T20 team – France or Argentina? For fans not tuned into the minutiae of Associate cricket, it’s now possible to answer this question, or at least have an informed idea, with the ICC expanding its men’s T20I rankings to 80 teams. Last year, the ICC decided to award T20I status to all T20 matches between its members, swelling the list of…
3:42 AM ET Australia’s coach Justin Langer has counselled Steven Smith and David Warner to turn the other cheek to the Barmy Army’s inevitable barbs in England this summer, having reflected on how he made himself the focus of their tuneful banter as a player. During the 2002 Boxing Day Test, Langer made 250 and followed up by attacking the Barmy Army for baiting Brett Lee with shouts of “no-ball”,…
2:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A back niggle has brought an early end to Kagiso Rabada‘s IPL season. Cricket South Africa has advised that the fast bowler return home as a precautionary measure ahead of the 2019 World Cup, which begins on May 30 with the tournament-opener between South Africa and hosts England. Rabada, the leading wicket-taker of IPL 2019 with 25 in 12 games, had complained of discomfort after…
2:25 AM ET If arrogance was a recent hallmark of Australia’s cricketers and the governing body that groomed them, then humility will be critical to Steven Smith and David Warner‘s return to international ranks a year after the Newlands scandal brought them tumbling down from the rarified positions of captain and deputy at the vanguard of the national team. Justin Langer, Australia’s coach, has bluntly acknowledged that the development of…
Smith and Warner’s year in cricket wilderness (4:42) A look at the year gone by since Smith and Warner were banned following the ball tampering controversy (4:42) 10:47 PM ET It is now less than a month until the World Cup starts and with the IPL nearing a conclusion thoughts are turning seriously to the tournament. A full-strength Australia squad have gone into camp in Brisbane to begin their run-in…
7:17 PM ET Steven Smith and David Warner‘s formal return to the ranks of the Australian team, for a pre-World Cup training camp in Brisbane this week, drew a line of sorts under the Newlands scandal that engulfed Cricket Australia a little more than a year ago. The reintegration of two high profile individuals such as Smith and Warner can make a quantifiable difference not only to the fortunes of…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 239 for 6 (Jennings 84, Lehmann 77) beat Derbyshire 209 for 7 (Dal 52) by 30 runs Lancashire won their fifth successive Royal London Cup game to close in on a top-three finish in the North Group and knockout qualification, with Derbyshire soundly beaten by 30 runs at Emirates Old Trafford. A two-hour rain delay forced a 38-overs-per-side contest on a used pitch,…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Hampshire 355 for 5 (Markram 130, Alsop 124) Sussex 346 (Wiese 171, Brown 64, Crane 3-55) by Hampshire edged out a high scoring thriller as Kyle Abbott and Mason Crane held their nerves after Sussex Sharks produced a second unbelievable Royal London Cup match in three days. David Wiese scored an epic 171 to take Sussex within 13 runs of victory after they had…