10:28 AM ET India are monitoring the fitness of Vijay Shankar closely after the allrounder was hit on the left foot by a yorker from Jasprit Bumrah during their training session on Wednesday. Vijay did not train full-tilt on Thursday, but Bumrah said Vijay was fit. On Sunday, Vijay played his first World Cup match, against Pakistan in Manchester. He scored an unbeaten run-a-ball 15 after coming in at No….
Joe Root celebrates with Chris Woakes after taking the wicket of Shimron Hetmyer © Getty Images Big picture After the deluge of rain, the flood of sixes. This World Cup has had to battle the elements, as well as some lop-sided contests, but England fired things up in Manchester with their record-breaking performance. Eoin Morgan led the way by lashing 17 sixes against Afghanistan, despite the apparent danger of putting…
Play 02:12 Which was South Africa’s bigger error? South Africa’s players were “hampered” at the World Cup, coach Ottis Gibson said in the aftermath of their loss to New Zealand. Some had even gone “into their shell” he said, which had contributed to the stilted nature of their batting performances over the last few weeks. There have been less flattering descriptions of South Africa following World Cup exits, of course,…
8:57 AM ET After eight months and just three meetings, head of Pakistan cricket committee Mohsin Khan has resigned from his role for unspecified reasons. PCB managing director Wasim Khan will take over the role of leading the committee, the first order of business being a review of the past three years, to begin immediately after the World Cup ends. Since the day the committee was formed, Mohsin Khan had…
8:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mali women’s miserable run in the Kwibuka Women’s Twenty20 Tournament 2019 continued for a third straight day, as they sank to a record 304-run defeat against Uganda women on Thursday. Mali had already set a world record for the lowest ever total on Tuesday, having been bowled out for 6 against Rwanda. Their 10 all out came after Uganda had racked up a massive 314…
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…
12:07 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Nicole Bolton will depart for the Ashes in good spirits after over-coming a first-ball duck with a half-century in Australia’s final warm-up match before leaving for England. Bolton took a break from the game midway through last season’s WBBL but returned to the fold when the squad for the Ashes tour was announced. The Australian squad prepared for the trip with a training camp in…
Tahir non-review not the turning point – du Plessis (1:13) South Africa captain Faf du Plessis says the faint edge Kane Williamson got, which wasn’t reviewed, wasn’t the reason his side lost to New Zealand (1:13) 10:05 PM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Statistically, South Africa are not out of the tournament yet. But Faf du Plessis realises it would take a near miraculous set of circumstances to put them in…
9:22 PM ET Sidharth Monga Sealed it with a dab. It is an unlikely end to a story of a thrilling match that is a throwback to eras gone by. New Zealand need 12 off seven balls. Kane Williamson opens the face to a slower ball, places it fine of short third man, gets four for it and kills the game off just when South Africa have started to dream…
8:23 PM ET David Miller is avoiding stares. He stands half-bent at the non-strikers’ end, flashing bail by his right boot. The opposition’s key batsman puffing a few metres away. Kane Williamson should be heading towards the dressing room. He should have been run out by half-a-metre. Instead mid-off picks up the ball that Miller had failed to catch before he broke the stumps. When there could have been celebrations,…