11:22 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Andy Moles, who has been a key influence in the rise of Afghanistan, will now be their director of cricket. The 58-year old has also been appointed chief selector, taking over as the team navigates through a patchy 2019. Moles has the experience of being part of the system, having coached Afghanistan from 2014 to 2015, a stint during which they made their maiden World…
3:00 AM ET Guyana Amazon Warriors 156 for 6 (Malik 73, Rutherford 45, Derval Green 2-23) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 79 (Phillips 21, Liton 21, Tahir 3-12) by 77 runs Guyana Amazon Warriors. Table toppers, unbeaten, full of confidence. What could go wrong? Not much, right? Well, eight balls into the game, they lost four wickets to Derval Green and Oshane Thomas, both on a hat-trick at the same time. With…
3:09 PM ET Cricket’s administrators love a good warehouse, don’t they? From England’s kit launch in the Tobacco Docks in May, to the arrival of the World Cup captains on the set of Dragons’ Den later that month, and now back to that favoured hub of multiculturalism, Brick Lane, where the World Cup countdown had been set in motion back in 2018, the urban-chic metaphors were once again climbing the…
2:28 PM ET Umar Farooq in Lahore Netherlands are set to host Pakistan for the first time ever in 2020. Comprising three ODIs, to be played between July 4 and 9 in Amstelveen, it will be their longest series against a Full Member country – outside of the newly inducted Ireland and Afghanistan. Pakistan will then visit Ireland for a two-match T20I series before moving on to England to play…
Brains trust: Ravi Shastri, Roger Binny, and Virat Kohli during the preparatory camp 1:34 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Roger Binny was elected as president of the Karanataka State Cricket Association on Thurday, winning by 943 votes to the 111 that his competitor M.M Harish. This is the former India allrounder’s third stint at the KSCA – he was a vice-president from 2007 to 2012 – and it will keep him…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India women 99 for 5 (Harmanpreet 34*, Ismail 2-19) beat South Africa women 98 for 8 (Wolvaardt 17, Radha 3-23, Deepti 2-19) by five wickets Spinners Radha Yadav and Deepti Sharma stifled South Africa women before Harmanpreet Kaur steered the tricky chase to see India women home by five wickets in the additional T20I in Surat. Their victory ensured the extra game, scheduled to make…
12:30 PM ET Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Andre Russell, Glenn Maxwell and Harbhajan Singh are among the 165 overseas players to have registered for the inaugural draft of The Hundred, ESPNcricinfo can reveal. The first handful of overseas stars who have signed up for the tournament were released on Tuesday, and included many of the biggest names on the…
Peter Moor in full flow © Getty Images Zimbabwe 168 for 2 (Moor 92*, Munyonga 44) beat Singapore 167 for 7 (Chandramohan 66, David 47, Jakiel 2-27) by 8 wickets Peter Moor smashed 92* off 60 as Zimbabwe avenged their shock defeat against Singapore in the two sides’ last meeting in the Singapore Twenty20 Tri-Series 2019, beating the home team by a handy eight wickets, with eight balls to spare….
12:11 PM ET Nagraj Gollapudi Close News editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Harbhajan Singh is the solitary Indian player to enter the draft for the inaugural season of The Hundred, which starts in July 2020. Harbhajan, who last played for India during the 2016 Asia Cup, has put his base price…
Just couldn’t control the run rate – Maharaj (1:00) South Africa knew the importance of setting a Test match up in the subcontinent, but nothing went according to plan (1:00) 10:45 AM ET If Keshav Maharaj thought touring India would offer him ideal conditions to show off his skills, the first two days of the Test series would have made him think again. South Africa’s first-choice spinner had to bowl…