3:00 AM ET New South Wales 3 for 50 trail Queensland 153 (Labuschagne 69, Conway 5-17) by 103 runs Cameron Gannon, the Queensland pace bowler who was playing for the USA in August, did what none of England’s attack could do during the Ashes: remove Steven Smith for a duck. Smith, playing his first first-class game in Australia since January 2018, flashed at his fifth delivery and the edge was…
3:40 AM ET Misbah-ul-Haq has been welcomed into his dual position of head coach and chief selector with a 3-0 whitewash in the T20I series at the hands of a second-string Sri Lanka side. That has left Misbah and captain Sarfaraz Ahmed “clueless” with “lots of questions to answer”. Pakistan have been No. 1 in T20Is for nearly two years now and losing this series at home, where they don’t…
Oct 9, 2019 Alex Malcolm Victoria 1 for 362 (Maddinson 195*, Harris 116) v South Australia Victoria openers Nic Maddinson and Marcus Harris kept their names firmly under the Australian selectors’ noses with sensational hundreds on the opening day of the Sheffield Shield season. With national chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns watching on at the Junction Oval, Maddinson and Harris put on a 220-run opening stand against South Australia to…
1:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor and legspinner Afy Fletcher have been named captains of NLCB Revellers and Courts Gladiators respectively, the two sides that will contest women’s T10 exhibition matches in the lead-up to the final two CPL games of the season on October 10 and 12 in Trinidad. Taylor is set to captain the Revellers, which will feature players from Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago…
1:02 AM ET Danyal Rasool in Lahore Sri Lanka coach Rumesh Ratnayake lavished praise on Pakistan upon the conclusion of his side’s tour, calling the hospitality Sri Lanka had received “a privilege to be appreciated”. Speaking to the media after the visitors beat Pakistan by 13 runs to complete a 3-0 T20I series whitewash, Ratnayake said the tour had gone very smoothly, and made him confident his side soon wouldn’t…
11:28 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff There will be a major change in the New Zealand broadcast landscape next year after NZC entered into a six-year deal with streaming service Spark Sport to show all home cricket ending a relationship with Sky that dates back to 1995. Spark is showing the current rugby World Cup and will add New Zealand’s men’s and women’s internationals as well as the T20 Super Smash…
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2:16 PM ET In what is likely to have a bearing on the BCCI elections, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has disqualified three key state associations – Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Maharashtra – for failing to comply with the board’s new constitution. These three states have been declared non-compliant and are barred from participating in the BCCI elections scheduled for October 23 in Mumbai. In response, the TNCA has said…
A fan dressed as the Queen during the Vitality T20 Blast Semi Final match between Notts Outlaws and Worcestershire Rapids 10:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The feelgood factor generated by a remarkable summer of cricket in 2019 has spilled over into 2020 … but perhaps not in the manner that the ECB might have envisaged, after Edgbaston confirmed that it had already sold out for next September’s Vitality Blast Finals…
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka have made a whopping five changes to the XI that won them the first two T20Is in Lahore, as they bat first for the third time in the series, after winning the toss. Wicketkeeper-batsman Sadeera Samarawickrama, batsmen Oshada Fernando and Angelo Perera, allrounder Lahiru Madushanka, and fast bowler Lahiru Kumara have all been brought into the XI, as Nuwan Pradeep, Isuru Udana, Shehan Jayasuriya, Avishka…