R Ashwin gets to keep the ball as a souvenir © BCCI R Ashwin is back in the top ten for Test bowlers after his match haul of eight wickets in his first international match in 2019, the first Test against South Africa in Visakhapatnam. Rohit Sharma, who marked his Test opening debut with twin hundreds, vaulted 36 places to a career-high 17th while his captain Virat Kohli had his…
New England bowling coach Chris Silverwood talks with Ben Stokes © Getty Images Chris Silverwood has been appointed as England men’s head coach. The 44-year-old Silverwood was promoted from the role of bowling coach to head coach across all formats, succeeding Trevor Bayliss, who left the post at the end of the 2019 season. Silverwood emerged as the frontrunner for the job last week after Alec Stewart pulled out of…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia Women 8 for 282 (Haynes 118, Healy 69, Kulasuriya 3-50) beat Sri Lanka Women 9 for 172 (Jonassen 4-32) by 110 runs A maiden international century from Rachael Haynes was the starring performance in Australia’s 110-run victory in the second ODI against Sri Lanka to put them 2-0 up in the series. Haynes’ 118 off 132 balls formed the cornerstone of Australia’s 8 for…
8:16 PM ET Alex Malcolm Australia retained the Ashes in England for the first time in 18 years yet the 2-2 result arguably left as many questions as answers about how their Test side will be shaped moving forward. There are four Sheffield Shield rounds before the first of five home Tests against Pakistan and New Zealand this summer. Here are the issues the selectors will be looking to find…
Victoria celebrate the Sheffield Shield 2018-19 title win, their fourth in the last five years 8:00 PM ET Alex Malcolm Andrew McGlashan Close Deputy editor, ESPNcricinfo Deputy Editor Andrew arrived at ESPNcricinfo via Manchester and Cape Town, after finding the assistant editor at a weak moment as he watched England’s batting collapse in the Newlands Test. Andrew began his cricket writing as a freelance covering Lancashire during 2004 when they…
3:00 AM ET Trinbago Knight Riders 128 for 4 (Simmons 51, Ramdin 32*, Pollard 26*, Joseph 1-17) beat St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 125 for 7 (Evans 55, Jordan 3-30, Narine 2-10) by six wickets Defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders launched CPL 2019 with four wins in a row, but they suddenly cooled off, going winless in their last six games in the lead-up to the playoffs. Knight Riders’ slump…
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Oct 5, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Keep up to date with all the movements around the counties during the off-season as preparations are made for the 2020 season Derbyshire IN:OUT: James Taylor, Alfie Gleadall (both released), Hamidullah Qadri (Kent)OVERSEAS: Durham IN:OUT: Will Smith (retired), Ryan Pringle, George Harding (both released)OVERSEAS: Cameron Bancroft (Aus) Essex IN:OUT:OVERSEAS: Peter Siddle (Aus) Glamorgan IN:OUT: Jeremy Lawlor, Kazi Szymanski (both released)OVERSEAS: Gloucestershire IN: Josh Shaw (Yorkshire)OUT:…
‘It’s about learning and getting better’ – Faf du Plessis (1:39) Captain Faf du Plessis said South Africa can learn from their defeat to India (1:39) 8:06 AM ET For a team that has lost a Test by a margin of more than 200 runs, South Africa seem unusually pleased with their performance against India in Vizag. Compare it to the way they played four years ago here, or even…
7:33 AM ET Umar Farooq in Lahore Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed has come out in support of returning batsmen Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal after their loss to Sri Lanka in the first T20I. Shehzad and Umar have had a mercurial past with Pakistan, for various reasons, and the revival of their careers in Lahore at the expense of Fakhar Zaman and Haris Sohail drew surprise in some corners. Umar…