Month: July 2019

5:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan allrounder Mohammad Hafeez has signed with St Kitts and Nevis Patriots for the upcoming Caribbean Premier League. Hafeez will replace South Africa batsman Rassie van der Dussen, who will be unavailable due to international commitments, with South Africa set to tour India in September-October. This will be Hafeez’s second stint with the CPL franchise. He had been part of the squad in 2017, when…

1:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rishabh Pant played four matches for India in the 2019 World Cup, batting at No. 4 in each game. Scores of 32, 48, 4 and 32 seemed to suggest Pant had the potential to be the long-term solution for India, batting at that troublesome number. The No. 4 spot hasn’t yet been nailed down despite several players being tried out, but for his part, Pant…

3:00 AM ET Lancashire 170 for 6 (Vilas 43) beat Yorkshire 161 for 9 (Pooran 43, Mahmood 3-33) by nine runs A Roses T20 tie on an impossibly sultry Headingley evening with temperatures still close to 30C: Britain’s second hottest day on record was a draining accompaniment to a raucous Blast tie that generally combusts of its own accord and it was Lancashire who confirmed themselves as one of the…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Surrey 141 (Jacks 40, Salter 4-23, de Lange 4-26) beat Glamorgan 44 (Curran 3-3, Batty 3-7, Tahir 3-8) Surrey’s second near-25,000 sell-out crowd in three days at the Kia Oval roared their approval as Tom Curran took a spectacular hat-trick in his opening new-ball over to set up a dramatic 97-run victory against Glamorgan, who subsequently crashed to 44 all out in 12.5 overs…

3:17 PM ET So surprising was Jack Leach‘s contribution at Lord’s that even his own father didn’t turn up to watch. Simon Leach has never seen his son play for England. While he is a passionate supporter of Jack’s career, Simon has a fear of flying and this was Jack’s first home Test. And, even though he had a ticket for the second day at Lord’s, he took a look…

2:02 PM ET Mitchell Starc may be in line to miss the opening Ashes Test in Birmingham in order to ensure he has found the ideal red-ball rhythm that was far more evident in the bowling of James Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood on a Southampton pitch the captain Tim Paine labelled “bordering on dangerous”. As the Australian squad prepared to be cut back from 25 to…

10:14 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff In a surprise development, Oppo, the Chinese mobile manufacturing company that paid a record sum in 2017 to secure the sponsorship rights of the Indian cricket team, has bailed out of their contract three years before it ends. On Thursday, the BCCI said Oppo was being replaced by Byju’s, a learning app. As part of the deal, the Byju’s logo will be on the shirts…