2:00 AM ET Name the artist most likely to provide the soundtrack to a David Warner batting montage over the past decade and many would reach for an AC/DC record – all blazing guitars and hair-raising lyrics – or perhaps something even heavier. An absence of the aforementioned metallic clang about Warner’s performances at this year’s World Cup has been so evident as to raise questions about what is now…
Neesham, de Grandhomme put on 132-run partnership (1:40) James Neesham and Colin de Grandhomme gave New Zealand a total to bowl at after they fell to 83/5 (1:40) 9:01 PM ET Sidharth Monga Jimmy Neesham likes to call it the “fastest 47” in ODI cricket, and he’s not wrong. After having being in the funk for two years, almost having given up on cricket and then setting himself right, Neesham…
8:19 PM ET Scene on hai? In other words, is it on? Is it happening? Is it really happening? You need not ask more. You need not say more. It has been a sort of secret greeting, the widest-known secret because the millions of Pakistan fans are in on it. Ever since Sri Lanka – Pakistan lite, as it has been proven time and again – beat England to slice…
7:17 PM ET First off, if you’re reading this then you’ve lost. It’s already the second-best thing you’re doing with a Babar Azam innings. If you’re ever reading about a Babar Azam innings, just know that it’s really the second-best thing you’re doing at that moment with a Babar Azam innings. The best thing to do with any Babar Azam innings is to be watching it, whether that is Babar…
5:14 PM ET New Zealand are arguably the best side when it comes to reading pitches in tournament play but on a slow Edgbaston track that turned considerably there were admissions after their loss to Pakistan that they had missed a trick by picking just one frontline spinner and omitting Ish Sodhi from the team. In the absence of Sodhi’s legspin, New Zealand turned to the part time offspin of…
Jun 24, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 6 for 0 trail Northamptonshire 299 (Wakely 65, Wright 4-78) by 293 runs Alex Wakely made his first half-century since resigning the Northamptonshire captaincy to lead his side to a good opening day against Leicestershire at Wantage Road. Wakely’s 65 in testing conditions set Northants up to make 299 having been sent in before the visitors survived three overs to the close 6…
Jun 25, 2019 Paul Edwards Sussex231 for 9 (Rawlins 56*, Wiese 56, Carse 4-42) trail Durham 384 (Bancroft 158, Eckersley 118, Jordan 4-58) by 153 runs Early on the second morning of this game Stiaan van Zyl dived to stop a ball on the fine leg boundary. He failed but managed to cake himself in mud, a legacy of Monday night’s heavy rain. Van Zyl’s embarrassment greatly amused Ben Brown…
Play 02:11 Pakistan 241 for 4 (Babar 101*, Sohail 68) beat New Zealand 237 for 6 (Neesham 97*, de Grandhomme 64, Shaheen Afridi 3-28) by six wicketsAs it happened It is incredible how Pakistan find ways of roaring back from hopeless situations. They were written off only a week earlier, languishing at ninth position with a solitary win in five games. They were yet to crack a chase – both…
Jun 25, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 313 and 41 for 2 lead Glamorgan 287 (Selman 73, Labuschagne 65) by 67 runs Some impressive seam bowling saw Gloucestershire grab a narrow advantage on the third day of the Specsavers County Championship match with Glamorgan at Bristol. David Payne, Josh Shaw and Ryan Higgins ended with three wickets each as the visitors were bowled out for 287 from an overnight 187…
1:00 PM ET Joe Root has admitted England’s batsmen “haven’t adapted” to the surfaces they have encountered in the World Cup. England have lost their last two matches to leave their hopes of progressing to the semi-finals uncertain. In both cases, they have failed to chase down targets that might, in recent years, have appeared relatively modest. Now they are in a position where they may have to win both…