Hussey: Australia picking up wins but they’re not at 100% (1:10) Australia have moved to the top of the points table with an 87-run win against Sri Lanka, but Mike Hussey thinks there are still gaps to plug (1:10) 2:57 PM ET Marcus Stoinis could return to the Australian team for Thursday’s group game against Bangladesh after a side strain forced him to miss two matches. The allrounder bowled and…
Jun 17, 2019 Jon Culley at Derby Lancashire 8 for 1 trail Derbyshire 153 (Anderson 5-18) by 145 runs Unlike Worcester, which pays a heavy price for its glorious proximity to the Severn, Derbyshire’s home ground can normally handle a deluge with few far-reaching effects. Last week’s downpours were exceptional, though. Spectators encouraged by a warm, drying wind to anticipate a prompt start arrived to see a huddle of Lancashire…
Play 00:59 Hussey on Morgan: Some of the best hitting I’ve seen England 397 for 6 (Morgan 148, Bairstow 90, Naib 3-68) beat Afghanistan 247 for 8 (Shahidi 76, Archer 3-52) by 150 runs As it happened That England decimated another attack, posted a massive total and batted their opponents out of the game is only surprising to someone who hasn’t followed Eoin Morgan‘s side over the past four years….
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Nottinghamshire 208 for 4 (Nash 67, Patel 42*) trail Kent 309 (Crawley 111, Stewart 59, Pattinson 6-73) by 101 runs Wily Nottinghamshire veterans Chris Nash and Samit Patel dug in throughout much of the late afternoon gloom in Tunbridge Wells to edge their side into the solid position of 208 for 4 at the mid-point of their Specsavers County Championship match with Kent. Responding…
3:00 AM ET Sussex 185 for 6 (Brown 64*, Parnell 4-59) v Worcestershire Kidderminster Cricket Club last staged County Championship cricket during the floods of 2008 and this time last week had no reason to suspect they would be hosting another match any time soon. Then came the deluge that left New Road under three feet of water. They had only four days’ notice that they were to be an…
Jun 17, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 343 for 5 (Dexter 180, Azad 137) v Gloucestershire A partnership of 320, a first-class record for the county’s second wicket, between Neil Dexter and Hassan Azad put Leicestershire in a strong position after the Foxes had been asked to bat by Gloucestershire in the Specsavers County Championship match at the Fischer County Ground. Dexter’s 180 was a career-best for the 34-year-old, coming…
3:00 AM ET 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…
12:14 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former Ireland batsman Ed Joyce has been appointed the interim head coach of the country’s women’s team, replacing Aaron Hamilton, who was in charge of the side for more than four years. After retiring as a player in May 2018 following Ireland’s Test debut, Joyce assumed a new role overseeing leadership development and acting as a batting coach in the Ireland performance system. Hamilton’s exit…
Play 03:15 Morkel: SA openers will be massively important against NZ Big Picture South Africa entered this World Cup ‘under the radar’, but that’s essentially where their campaign has stayed. Still, after three defeats, a washout and a solitary win so far, they are definitely a threat even as the scrap for positions in the top four heats up. New Zealand, meanwhile, invented flying under the radar at World Cups,…
Three of the Mali women batsmen were out bowled as their innings lasted just nine overs 9:34 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff It took Rwanda women just four balls to finish their chase after Mali women were bowled out for a record-low 6 in the Kwibuka Women’s T20 tournament in the Rwandan capital of Kigali City. The record for the lowest women’s T20I team total before Tuesday was 14, China women’s…