Month: June 2019

Faf du Plessis and Ottis Gibson are likely to face scrutiny after South Africa’s poor World Cup  11:58 AM ET Their opponents are still technically battling for one of those semi-final spots, but for South Africa the post-mortem has already begun. How did two years of intense planning, which featured serious blooding of hopefuls and all manner of contingencies, including letting David Miller keep for a few games in case…

10:53 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Yorkshire’s lack of a convincing frontline Championship spinner has led them to sign South Africa’s slow left-armer Keshav Maharaj on a short-term deal. The signing is further indication that Josh Poysden, the former England Lions legspinner, who joined Yorkshire from Warwickshire with the hope of winning a role in all formats, remains regarded primarily as a limited-overs specialist. Poysden’s last Championship match was against Nottinghamshire…

Jun 25, 2019 Warwickshire 230 and 148 for 3 (Sibley 52*) trail Surrey 194 and 325 (Stoneman 71, Elgar 53, Curran 52, Miles 5-91) by 141 runs Tight fourth-innings chases place stressful responsibility on the fielding captain, and Rory Burns will have an extra calculation to make as he tries to perm a way to deny Warwickshire the 142 still needed to secure what would be a terrific win for…

Gayle un-retires, plans to play ODIs, Tests vs. India (0:44) Chris Gayle announced an apparent u-turn on his planned retirement after the World Cup as well as what he hopes to achieve in their last 4 games. (0:44) 9:05 AM ET Chris Gayle has effected a surprise turnaround to his previous statements of retiring after the World Cup, saying his post-tournament plans included “definitely” playing the ODI series against India…

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8:50 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mitchell Starc‘s day started with a sledge over breakfast and finished with him having notched another entry in his World Cup hall of fame with a delivery for the ages to castle Ben Stokes. Hours before Starc speared the swinging yorker under Stokes’ bat, to remove England’s last hope of chasing down Australia’s total, he had his morning briefly interrupted at the team hotel by…

Our basics get challenged on non-batter friendly pitches – Morgan (1:08) Eoin Morgan said England will need to look at rotating the strike more as opposed to finding the boundary on challenging surfaces (1:08) 5:13 PM ET George Dobell at Lord’s Ben Stokes has insisted England “are not, for one minute going to take a backward step” in their remaining World Cup group games, even if their former team-mate Kevin…

4:32 PM ET The last time Australia opened the bowling with two left-arm quicks it was all about the Mitches. Australia were facing Sri Lanka in the 2015 World Cup, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson took two wickets apiece and Australia won by 64 runs. Four years later, on the other side of the world in another World Cup, Starc and Jason Behrendorff conjured some left-arm wizardry, took nine wickets…