Month: August 2019

Charlotte Edwards and Mahela Jayawardene will coach the Southampton franchise in The Hundred  6:23 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Charlotte Edwards and Mahela Jayawardene have been appointed as the head coaches for the Southampton-based teams for The Hundred. Jayawardene is the sixth coach to have his appointment confirmed for the tournament for a men’s team. The two men’s sides yet to have their head coaches announced are the Oval Invincibles and…

12:41 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies women have recalled offspinner Anisa Mohammed to the squad as they aim to bank on experience for the upcoming ODI series against Australia, which starts on September 5. Mohammed’s last appearance for West Indies came against Pakistan women in February, and, after three wickets across five international games on that tour, she was left out of the squad for the England and Ireland…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Surrey Stars 132 for 1 (Lee 75, Sciver 50*) beat Lancashire Thunder 97 for 7 (McGrath 41, Jones 3-24) by 35 runs Lizelle Lee and Nat Sciver smashed stunning half-centuries to fire Surrey Stars to reduced-overs victory over Lancashire Thunder, by 35 runs, as the defending champions ended the Kia Super League in rip-roaring style at Blackpool. Openers Lee and Sciver, the Stars captain,…

3:00 AM ET Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire Match abandoned No team has successfully defended the T20 Blast, but Worcestershire Rapids took a significant step towards becoming the first when they secured their quarter-final spot courtesy of a third abandoned game at New Road this season. Given that they adopted the “Rapids” moniker in a knowing nod towards the long and sad association between heavy rainfall and the ground it might seem…

12:01 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ajantha Mendis, perhaps cricket’s original mystery spinner in the video analysis age, has announced his retirement from all forms of the game. The 34-year old last played international cricket in 2015, an ODI against New Zealand in Christchurch. The inventor of what became known as the “carrom ball” – legbreaks produced by flicking the ball like a striker on a carrom board – took 70…

7:47 AM ET The Lahore High Court appears to have cleared the last hurdle in the way of the PCB’s long-pending domestic reforms, after dismissing a petition to block changes in the board’s new constitution. It allows the PCB to implement its new constitution in full, as well as to reform the governing board and launch its restructured domestic set-up starting September 14. Following an interim judgement by the court…

5:29 AM ET Usman Khawaja will lead the Australians in their three-day tour match against Derbyshire starting Thursday, with Alex Carey called in from Sussex to keep wickets and therefore give Tim Paine a breather between the Leeds and Manchester Ashes Tests. Usman Khawaja (capt), Cameron Bancroft, Alex Carey (wk), Marcus Harris, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Marsh, Michael Neser, Peter Siddle, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade Steven Smith has been…

Aug 27, 2019 Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo In the seconds after he was struck on the neck by a ball from Jofra Archer at Lord’s, Steven Smith has revealed his very first thoughts were of the death of his teammate Phillip Hughes almost five years ago. Smith did not play in the 2014 Sheffield Shield match at the SCG when Hughes also took a…