Play 02:29 Hodge: Australia attack’s versatility might get them over the line Big Picture A lot about the meeting between Australia and West Indies at Trent Bridge will be determined by a single question: which West Indies side will turn up? If it is the one that razed Pakistan in their tournament opener, also at Trent Bridge, or the one that clouted New Zealand into submission in the warm-up match,…
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3:37 AM ET Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo Aaron Finch expects an aggressive onslaught from West Indies – with both bat and ball – when the two sides meet at Trent Bridge on Thursday. Both teams enter the match off the back of seven-wicket wins in their opening World Cup matches: Australia made short work of Afghanistan, while West Indies swept Pakistan away with a…
3:26 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The second season of the Global T20 Canada will be held in Brampton in July and August, after the organiser decided to host the event in a more central location. The inaugural edition of the tournament had been played at Kings City in June-July last year. The league will also add a sixth franchise team to replace the West Indies B side that had participated…
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Tayla Vlaeminck bowling for Melbourne Renegades, Melbourne Renegades v Sydney Thunder, Junction Oval, WBBL, December 2, 2018 12:58 AM ET Alex Malcolm Australia are hoping 20-year-old quick Tayla Vlaeminck will be their wildcard in the women’s Ashes series next month. Vlaeminck has only played one T20I and one ODI in her brief career thus far but after recovering from a partially torn ACL, which she suffered during the WBBL season,…
Mitchell Marsh hit an unbeaten 41-ball 50 © Getty Images Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has joined his brother Shaun Marsh as Glamorgan’s second overseas signing for the Vitality T20 Blast while Gloucestershire have signed Australia one-Test swing bowler Chadd Sayers for a six-week county championship stint. Mitch Marsh was not selected for Australia’s World Cup campaign after being dropped from all three forms at international level in the last 12…
Carlos Brathwaite during a coaching session with local school children at the World Cup 5:35 PM ET Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean. As the Australians arrived for their first training session at Trent Bridge, the head-banging guitar riff and grinding lyrics of ACDC’s You Shook Me All Night Long bellowed from the speaker on the…
Sloppy Afghanistan flounder on the field (1:17) Afghanistan’s sloppy bowling and fielding proved costly as they gifted Sri Lanka a number of runs and went on to lose the match. (1:17) 5:21 PM ET Two yorkers from Lasith Malinga crashed into the stumps and had zing bails light up the growing gloom around the Cardiff Wales Stadium and Afghan hearts, but by then Sri Lanka were as good as home….
Sri Lanka 201 (Kusal Perera 78, Nabi 4-30) beat Afghanistan 152 (Najibullah 43, Pradeep 4-31, Malinga 3-39) by 34 runs (via DLS method) As it happened: Afghanistan v Sri Lanka Two teams, both doing a lot of things wrong. In the end, Sri Lanka did just about enough right and got on the points table with a 34-run (DLS method) win, preventing Afghanistan from recording their first World Cup win…