12:54 PM ET Five matches played, five matches lost. Afghanistan are currently bottom of the World Cup table, and just four matches left to play, the wounds inflicted by England’s brutal 150-run win only making things worse. Beyond the playing field, too, things are bad, with what seems like a big fallout between the head coach, Phil Simmons, and former fast bowler Dawlat Ahmadzai, who had been demoted from chairman…
11:45 AM ET Confidence, Mashrafe Mortaza stressed, was high in the Bangladesh camp after the win over West Indies, and key ahead of the upcoming game against Australia, on Thursday at Trent Bridge. West Indies attacked Bangladesh with a short-ball plan, which didn’t work at all. Bangladesh scored 78 in the 36 bouncers they faced without losing a wicket. Overall, in their four matches so far, they have a strike…
Jun 18, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 274 for 9 (Lloyd 59, Labuschagne 51, Cullen 50, Finn 5-64) trail Middlesex 410 (Stirling 138, Robson 107) by 136 runs Middlesex and Glamorgan look destined to share the spoils in Radlett’s inaugural County Championship fixture after rain restricted them to 48 overs on day three. The prospects of a positive result rested mainly on Middlesex forcing the visitors to follow on, but…
3:00 AM ET David Hopps at Derby Lancashire 236 (Croft 53, Reece 6-58) and 4 for 0 beat Derbyshire 153 (Anderson 5-18) and 84 (Onions 5-38, Anderson 4-29) by 10 wickets With the start of the Ashes six weeks away, the health of Jimmy Anderson is one of England’s prime concerns. MI5 probably have surveillance officers monitoring his every movement, poised to warn of anything disturbing like a bit of…
7:23 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the remainder of the World Cup. The India opener suffered a hairline fracture to his left thumb during his century against Australia last Sunday and it hasn’t recovered well enough for him to play the tournament. Rishabh Pant, who was rushed in as a cover by the BCCI on June 11, two days after Dhawan suffered the blow…
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Ginn excited to be out of the boat and joining CA (0:41) Drew Ginn says he’s excited to bring the principles of his decorated Olympic rowing career to the role of High Performance EGM at Cricket Australia. (0:41) 4:18 AM ET New Cricket Australia high performance chief Drew Ginn may be set to dictate a change of course for the management of the nation’s fast bowlers, drawing lessons from his…
Play 01:20 June 18 Hashmatullah Shahidi will never forget Old Trafford and Old Trafford can never forget Hashmatullah. Hit flush on the side of his helmet by a Mark Wood short ball when on 24, Afghanistan’s top-scorer ignored his broken helmet and the doctor’s advice to walk off the field. He stood his ground he says, for his team and his family. When the ICC doctor and the team physio…
Jun 17, 2019 Paul Edwards at York Yorkshire 208 for 8 (Ballance 54, Miles 4-32, Hannon-Dalby 3-60) against Warwickshire The last time Yorkshire played at York Kent turned up with eight players, Bobby Peel took nine wickets and one of the spectators, Prince Albert Victor, a grandson of Queen Victoria, was later suspected of being Jack the Ripper. No crowd figure survives from that match played at Wigginton Road, 129…