3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 312 (Dube 71, Saha 66, Cummins 4-40) and 97 for 4 (Bharat 28, Cornwall 2-18) beat West Indies A 228 (Cornwall 59, Blackwood 53, Nadeem 5-62) and 180 (Brooks 53, Nadeem 5-47) by six wickets Wriddhiman Saha‘s back-to-the-wall 66 in his first first-class game since the Cape Town Test in 2018 and left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem‘s ten-wicket haul headlined India A’s six-wicket win…
10:12 AM ET Charl Langeveldt, the former South Africa fast bowler, will take over as Bangladesh’s new fast-bowling coach. He will join the team full-time on a two-year contract. The BCB has also appointed Daniel Vettori, the former New Zealand left-arm spinner, as Bangladesh’s spin-bowling coach, on a short-term basis. Vettori will be with the team for 100 working days – which will include the tour of India later this…
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Let’s talk about six, baby: Kumar Dharmasena’s controversial decision in the final is going to be a conversation piece for a long time to come 6:52 AM ET The International Cricket Council has come out in support of umpire Kumar Dharmasena for his controversial awarding of six overthrows, instead of five, to England in the World Cup final on July 14 at Lord’s. In their first public statement of the…
Ben Stokes was in jofra Archer’s ear during the Super Over, and all over him afterwards © Getty Images Jofra Archer is in line to make his Test debut against Australia during the Ashes after being named in England’s 14-man squad on the strength of his star turn for World Cup champion team. Ben Stokes has been re-appointed England vice-captain, while Olly Stone was named in the squad as a…
4:26 AM ET Seventeen months ago, Cameron Bancroft sat in a room at the WACA Ground, flanked by the state’s chief executive Christina Matthews, and conveyed his greatest disappointment about the Newlands ball tampering scandal in which he had been a pivotal figure. “Through the last few days, sitting in my own company, the thing that breaks my heart the most is that I have given up my spot in…
12:25 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer has revealed he was in “excruciating” pain as he battled a side injury during the second half of the World Cup. The tournament finished with him bowling the dramatic tied Super Over that enabled England to win the title on boundary countback. Archer sustained the injury against Afghanistan, England’s fifth match of the tournament, and needed constant painkillers to make it through the…
11:13 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Meg Lanning channeled the annoyance of not converting starts in the Ashes into a record-breaking innings at Chelmsford, as Australia secured the multi-points series in overwhelming style, but was still targeting further improvement from her impressive team. Lanning plundered 133 not out off 63 balls, beating her own record of 126 – which had been jointly held with Sterre Kalis of Netherlands for a month…
Hohns ‘excited’ to see Pattinson in Ashes squad (2:13) Australia’s selection chairman Trevor Hohns discusses James Pattinson’s inclusion in the Ashes squad and other selection decisions (2:13) 10:01 PM ET If Cameron Bancroft and Marnus Labuschagne were among the last players settled upon by the national selectors for this years Ashes tour, James Pattinson has revealed that he may well have been the first. The broad grin that appeared on…
3:00 AM ET Australia 226 for 3 (Lanning 133*, Mooney 54) beat England 133 for 9 (Winfield 33, Schutt 3-25) by 93 runs Not content to have retained the Ashes, Australian captain Meg Lanning ground England into the dirt with a record-breaking knock before her bowlers ensured their opponents stayed down, resigning them to their worst-ever T20 International defeat, with two more matches left in the series. The 93-run victory…