Month: July 2019

11:31 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Fakhar Zaman, the Pakistan opener, has signed for Glamorgan for the first half of their Vitality Blast campaign as a replacement for the injured Shaun Marsh. Marsh was ruled out of the closing stages of the World Cup with a fractured forearm, suffered while batting in the nets against Pat Cummins, and the club hope he will be available for the final six group games….

10:45 AM ET BCB director Khaled Mahmud is “close” to becoming Bangladesh’s temporary head coach for the upcoming three ODIs against hosts Sri Lanka, according to his colleague Akram Khan, the chairman of the cricket operations committee. Mahmud will replace Steve Rhodes who was removed from the head coach’s position last week through “mutual consent” after the BCB reviewed his performance following their World Cup campaign. “Khaled Mahmud is close…

Kane Williamson does as Kane Williamson always does, and dabs it down to third man  9:35 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff “Yeah, in a heartbeat,” Kane Williamson said when asked if he’d swap his Player of the Series trophy for one extra run at the end of the greatest World Cup final in history. He might have to keep that line handy again as the ICC announced another individual milestone for…

9:20 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sunday’s World Cup final, the first England international on free-to-air UK television since the 2005 Ashes, attracted a peak viewership of 8.3 million. The game was simulcast on several channels: Sky showed it on Sky One, Main Event, and their Cricket channel, while Channel 4 split their coverage between their main channel and More 4 during the British Grand Prix. The peak audience was only…

5:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The umpires made an “error of judgement” in awarding six runs, instead of five, to England for the overthrow that hit Ben Stokes’ bat and ran to the boundary, says Simon Taufel. Currently part of the MCC’s laws sub-committee that makes the rules governing cricket, Taufel told foxsports.com.au that England should have been awarded five runs, not six. “It’s a clear mistake.. it’s an error…

4:25 AM ET An Australian squad of 16 for the looming Ashes series, rather than the traditional number of 17, may well play into the hands of Matthew Wade as the selectors look for a utility reserve batsman and back-up wicketkeeper to face England over five Tests. The selection chairman Trevor Hohns has flagged 16 as the number for the final squad, which is to be pared down from the…

Play 01:59 A fair way to end the world cup? Jofra Archer has credited the support of team-mates after holding his nerve to seal England’s first World Cup victory. Despite being the youngest in the side and having played only 13 ODIs before the World Cup final, Archer was the natural choice to bowl the Super Over that decided the game. And, while he started that over with a wide…

11:12 PM ET Kane Williamson admitted it was “tough to swallow” the fact that the number of boundaries struck by each side eventually decided the World Cup winners. England and New Zealand were equal on runs after both the regulation part of the match and the Super Overs that followed, but England had scored a total of 26 boundaries to New Zealand’s 17, including the Super Overs. When asked if…

11:02 PM ET Alex Malcolm Australia women’s vice-captain Rachael Haynes expects to be fit for the Women’s Ashes Test starting on Thursday despite battling a tight quad. Haynes was forced to retire on 47 during the first innings of Australia’s three-day tour match against the England Academy at Marlborough. She did not bat in the second innings as Australia won by 240 runs. But the left-hander was confident she would…