2:36 PM ET Tim Paine has described Steven Smith as “the best player I have ever seen”, after Australia sealed the Ashes with a thrilling 185-run win on the final afternoon of the fourth Test at Old Trafford. Paine, who took over from Smith as Australia’s captain last year, in the wake of the Cape Town ball-tampering scandal that led to his year-long ban from cricket, admitted to being in…
2:12 PM ET The BCCI’s acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary has been asked to explain his absence from key ICC and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meetings held recently for which he was nominated as the Indian board’s representative. Choudhary has been served a showcause notice by the three-person Committee of Administrators (CoA), and given a week to respond. In the notice, accessed by ESPNcricinfo, the CoA said that Choudhary’s actions put…
3:00 AM ET Australia 497 for 8 (Smith 211, Labuschagne 67) and 186 for 6 dec (Smith 82) beat England 301 (Burns 81, Root 71) and 197 (Denly 53, Cummins 4-43) by 185 runs Australia have retained the Ashes on English soil for the first time since 2001, after digging deep into their reserves in the final hour at Old Trafford to achieve the catharsis that eluded them at Headingley…
1:19 PM ET As one Bangladesh wicket fell after another on Sunday, the Afghanistan players could scent a historic win with every passing moment. At the end of the fourth day’s play, they found themselves just four wickets away from a famous victory in Chattogram. Amid all that jubilation and excitement, however, there was one puzzling question on wicketkeeper Afsar Zazai‘s mind. Where was Soumya Sarkar, who opened in the…
11:14 AM ET Liam Brickhill Cricket South Africa has declared losses of Rand 200 million (US$13.5 million) for the 2018-19 financial year after their AGM in Johannesburg on Saturday. CSA’s approved financial statements, published in their integrated report for 2019, detailed the losses, which marked an improvement on the budgeted losses of R222 million ($15 million). CSA put the improved result down to cost-cutting initiatives, as well as increased investment…
10:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kerala allrounder Jalaj Saxena has been added to the India A squad for the first four-day match against South Africa A, starting on Monday in Thiruvananthapuram. Jalaj comes in as a near like-for-like cover for another bowling allrounder K Gowtham, who is unwell and being monitored by the medical staff. Gowtham had been in excellent bowling form, finishing as the third highest wicket-taker for India…
4:57 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies opener Kraigg Brathwaite, who bowls part-time offspin, has been reported for a suspect bowling action after the second Test against India in Jamaica. This is the second time Brathwaite has been reported for a suspect action – the first instance occurred in August 2017, during West Indies tour of England, and Brathwaite was cleared to bowl a month later. Brathwaite will be required…
Anil Kumble said the team could accommodate both R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in the XI 3:04 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff One of the debates during India’s tour of the West Indies centred on R Ashwin‘s place in the side in overseas Tests, after the offspinner missed out on the starting XI in both the Antigua and Jamaica Tests. In both matches, India went with Ravindra Jadeja as the lone…
3:00 AM ET Stumps Afghanistan 342 and 237 for 8 (Ibrahim 87, Afghan 50, Zazai 34*, Shakib 3-53, Nayeem 2-61, Taijul 2-68) lead Bangladesh 205 (Mominul 51, Mosaddek 48*, Liton 33, Rashid 5-55, Nabi 3-56) by 374 runs Afghanistan were in complete control of the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Chattogram after stretching their lead to 374 runs by stumps on the third day. Play ended 20 minutes early after…
Sep 6, 2019 Guyana Amazon Warriors 159 for 2 (Hetmyer 70*, Hemraj 39) beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 153 for 8 (Thomas 62, Allen 33, Shadab 2-20) by eight wickets Guyana Amazon Warriors registered their second straight win with a dominant performance against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. With a strong start with the ball courtest of spinners Chris Green and Shadab Khan, Warriors were able to control the…