Month: July 2019

3:46 PM ET Bangladesh coach Steve Rhodes said that they are disappointed with their exit from the World Cup, but hoped that they would be remembered as the “people’s team” for the fight they have shown against top sides. In a must-win game to qualify for the semi-finals, they fell 29 runs short of India’s 314, but their wins over South Africa, West Indies and Afghanistan added excitement and a…

3:00 AM ET Yorkshire 327 (Fraine 106, Clark 5-77) and 303 for 9 (Lyth 68) lead Surrey 362 (Stoneman 100) by 268 runs Surrey are back at Scarborough for the second successive season and those Yorkshire spectators who like their Championship cricket hard-bitten might be in the mood to book them in for the next decade. This was the antithesis of the Festival cricket that was once the soul of…

3:00 AM ET Australia 178 for 8 (Healy 66, Ecclestone 3-34) beat England 177 (Sciver 64, Perry 3-43) by two wickets Australia – led by the bowling of Ellyse Perry and the batting of Alyssa Healy – have claimed early Ashes honours, winning a tight opening contest by two wickets in the first one-dayer at Leicester. England never recovered from a top-order batting collapse, led by Perry’s three wickets, despite…

3:00 AM ET Matt Roller at Taunton Hampshire 12 for 1 and 349 (Northeast 101, J Overton 5-70) need 409 runs to beat Somerset 408 (Hildreth 105, Abbott 6-84) and 358 for 8 declared (Ali 79, Banton 70, Abell 58) Nine final-day wickets stand between Somerset and a sixth win in eight Championship games this season after they gradually turned the screw on Hampshire with a dominant batting display. Led…

We’d love to score some runs and take pressure off Kane – Taylor (1:43) Ross Taylor also compares Kane Williamson’s captaincy with Brendon McCullum (1:43) 3:17 PM ET Only one team must win the match tomorrow, and that’s not New Zealand. But losing to England would mean that the World Cup’s perennial bridesmaids go to the semi-finals – and they will, barring a freakish turn of results – as the…

3:00 AM ET India 314 for 9 (Rohit 104, Rahul 77, Pant 48, Mustafizur 5-59) beat Bangladesh 286 (Shakib 66, Saifuddin 51, Bumrah 4-55, Pandya 3-60) by 28 runsAs it happened Bangladesh are out of the 2019 World Cup. They’ve beaten the teams they were expected to beat, and also a couple they may not have been, but they haven’t managed to win any of their meetings with the tournament…

1:06 PM ET There are a few contenders for the lowest moment in the history of England cricket. There have been defeats to the Netherlands, Ireland and Scotland. Global campaigns where it seemed they couldn’t beat an egg. A home World Cup where, infamously, they lost before the theme song was released. But if you want to find a single moment, a one-off game, where they didn’t just plunge the…

12:12 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Smriti Mandhana, the star performer in Western Storm’s ride to the Kia Super League semi-final in 2018, will rejoin the team for the upcoming 2019 season, alongside India team-mate Deepti Sharma. Mandhana, the 22-year-old opener, topped the KSL batting charts last year with 421 runs at an average of 60.14 and a strike rate of 174.68, hitting a century and two half-centuries, helping Storm reach…