5:46 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Almost a week after the epic 2019 World Cup final between England and New Zealand at Lord’s, the winning captain Eoin Morgan still cannot pinpoint where the game was won and lost. With both the match and Super Over ending in ties, England were declared winners on the basis of the boundary count, but like many others, Morgan too felt it was perhaps not a…
Kane Williamson greets former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum after the final 3:13 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Brendon McCullum knows what it is to lose a World Cup final. In 2015, under McCullum’s captaincy, New Zealand enjoyed a bumper run to the final, only to lose to Australia by seven wickets at the MCG. Four years later, New Zealand reached another World Cup final, this time at Lord’s, and tied…
Roston Chase cuts one away © AFP West Indies A 298 for 9 (Chase 84, Thomas 70, Khaleel 4-67, Avesh 3-62) beat India A (Axar 81*, Washington 45, Powell 2-47) by five runs After losing the first three games and conceding the series to India A, West Indies A pulled one back, overcoming a late assault from Axar Patel to edge the visitors in the fourth one-dayer in Coolidge. India…
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3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Durham 148 for 4 (Short 46) Northamptonshire 141 for 9 (Rossington 47, Potts 2-11) by seven runs A fine all-round performance from D’Arcy Short on debut guided Durham to a narrow seven-run victory over Northamptonshire Steelbacks in their Vitality Blast opener at Emirates Riverside. The Australia opener set the tone with an aggressive innings of 46 at the top of the order on a…
4:40 PM ET Four years ago Pat Cummins was pretty happy to be running drinks in an Ashes series in England. Fair enough too, given that his injury record over the preceding few summers had made his selection for Test matches a near impossibility. In 2019, however, Cummins looms as perhaps the key figure in the entire series, given his outstanding displays in Test matches for Australia to date that…
4:13 PM ET Former captain Steven Smith and Ashes tour aspirant Matthew Wade will be pitted against Australia’s leading bowlers including Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins in the internal trial at Southampton that will determine the final shape of the touring party. Teams coached by Brad Haddin and Graeme Hick were named on Friday evening, with Usman Khawaja the only name missing out of the 25-man pre-Ashes squad as he…
Jul 18, 2019 Australia Women 265 for 3 (Perry 84*, Haynes 54*) v England Women Is it too soon to say that Australia have retained the Ashes? Technically, yes, but such was the ease with which a succession of their batsmen mastered the opening day of the one-off Test in Taunton, it is already nigh on impossible to see how England can claim the 20 wickets required to win the…
11:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Eoin Morgan, Rashid Khan, Dale Steyn and Babar Azam were among prominent players who were drafted into the six teams that will make up the inaugural Euro T20 Slam in London on Friday. The six teams – two each based in Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands – each have one designated ‘icon player’ and one ‘marquee player’. The identities of the icon and marquee players had…
10:05 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka and spinners Akila Dananjaya and Lakshan Sandakan, who all missed out on World Cup selection, have been recalled into the 22-member ODI squad for the three-match series against Bangladesh. Suranga Lakmal, Jeevan Mendis, Milinda Siriwardena and Jeffrey Vandersay – who were a part of the squad that travelled to England – have been left out The other inclusions are allrounders Shehan…