Month: May 2019

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 622 for 5 decl (Abhimanyu 233, Panchal 160, Anmolpreet 116*, Vishwa Fernano 2-83) beat Sri Lanka A 232 (Dickwella 103, Chahar 4-78) and 185 (Samarawickrama 48, Chahar 4-45) by an innings and 205 runs India A completed a three-day rout of Sri Lanka A in their first four-day match in Belgavi, courtesy compelling batting performances from captain Priyank Panchal, Abhimanyu Easwaran and Anmolpreet…

4:59 AM ET Mark Wood has been cleared of serious injury and will remain part of England’s World Cup squad. Wood, one of two England bowlers who regularly generate pace in excess of 90 mph – Jofra Archer is the other – pulled up during his fourth over of the warm-up match against Australia in Southampton on Saturday. Given his history of foot and ankle problems, there was some trepidation…

Close Assistant editor Daniel Brettig had been a journalist for eight years when he joined ESPNcricinfo, but his fascination with cricket dates back to the early 1990s, when his dad helped him sneak into the family lounge room to watch the end of day-night World Series matches well past bedtime. Unapologetically passionate about indie music and the South Australian Redbacks, Daniel’s chief cricketing achievement was to dismiss Wisden Almanack editor…

Glenn McGrath believes England’s ability to attack with the bat through the innings makes them the team to beat in this World Cup  4:17 AM ET Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Glenn McGrath, who has turned making pre-series predictions into a mini-sport of its own, has come out with perhaps his most surprising prediction yet, naming England – arch-rivals during his playing career –…

4:29 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mark Wood‘s World Cup hopes remain in the balance with three days to go until England’s opening fixture against South Africa at The Oval, despite optimistic signals from within the England camp. The results of the precautionary scan on Wood’s troublesome left ankle have not yet been revealed, after he opted to leave the field midway through his bowling spell in England’s warm-up fixture against…

1:46 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Thanks to the finger injury that kept him out of Bangladesh’s tour of New Zealand, the recently concluded tri-series in Ireland was Shakib Al Hasan‘s first taste of ODI cricket in nearly five months. He recovered from that injury in time for the IPL, but only got to play three matches for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the tournament. In Ireland, Shakib played an important role in…

1:36 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff If something can be taken from a match where the scoreline meant little but which resulted in a possible spanner in the works for the World Cup favourites, England’s Jonny Bairstow did a good job of finding it. Speaking after a 12-run defeat at the hands of Australia in Saturday’s warm-up match at Southampton – in which Mark Wood, Jofra Archer and Liam Dawson all…

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies women 139 for 4 (Taylor 75, Raack 1-16) beat Ireland women 75 (Garth 46, Fletcher 4-14) by 64 runs Captain Stafanie Taylor‘s half-century and legspinner Afy Fletcher‘s four-wicket haul helped West Indies women cruise to a 64-run victory over Ireland in the first game of the three-match T20I series in Dublin. Batting first, Taylor led from the front with 75 off 53 balls,…