Month: July 2019

3:00 AM ET Australia 122 for 3 (Lanning 43*, Perry 47*) beat England 121 for 8 (Beaumont 43) by 7 wickets An assured partnership between Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry took Australia to a comfortable, composed, seven-wicket win at Hove and within touching distance of a white-ball Ashes clean sweep. This was a considerably different performance from Friday night’s rampage at Chelmsford. At 35 for 3 in their run chase…

Saad bin Zafar was the hero of the inaugural Global T20 Canada final won by Vancouver Knights  9:50 AM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna A bomb threat delayed the start of the GLT20…

9:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Babar Azam will play for Somerset in their County Championship match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston next month. The club announced on Sunday that Azam, the No.1 T20I player on the ICC rankings who joined Somerset for the Vitality Blast season, would be its overseas player for the match, beginning on August 18th because of registration regulations which meant there was not enough time to de-register…

3:00 AM ET Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal decided to bat against Sri Lanka in the second ODI at the R Premadasa Stadium. Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne had taken the same decision in the first game, which they won by 91 runs. Both teams brought in an extra spinner. Sri Lanka had to make one change as Lasith Malinga retired from ODIs after the first game of this series. They…

3:57 AM ET Standing in the middle of the Trent Bridge outfield during warm-ups for the pivotal Test match of the 2015 Ashes series, Peter Siddle confided to Ricky Ponting that he thought his international career was at an end. Siddle had just been told by the selectors Darren Lehmann and Rod Marsh that he was being left out for the fourth Test match in a row, despite the Nottingham…

Hamilton Masakadza follows the women’s team captain in writing a letter to the sports minister  2:30 PM ET Liam Brickhill Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza has written to sports minister Kirsty Coventry to ask for “urgent intervention” after Zimbabwe Cricket’s suspension by the ICC. Masakadza’s letter follows similar communication from women’s captain Mary-Anne Musonda, who had asked the minister to step in and resolve the apparent impasse between Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC)…

1:01 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ashley Giles believes Ben Stokes‘ reinstatement as England vice-captain ahead of the Ashes is the logical next step in his development as a Test allrounder. In announcing their 14-man squad for the first Test against Australia starting at Edgbaston August 1, the ECB also revealed chairman Colin Graves had approved Stokes’ re-appointment on the recommendation of Ashley Giles and chief executive Tom Harrison. Stokes had…