Month: November 2019

7:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan 215 (Nahida 68, Maroof 39, Jahanara 3-44, Ghosh 2-12) beat Bangladesh 186 (Nigar 58, Rumana 28, Mir 3-49, Sandhu 2-28) by 29 runs Pakistan defended 215 against Bangladesh in the opening fixture of the three-ODI series that counts for the Women’s Championship, in Lahore, courtesy of a three-for by Sana Mir, who ensured opener Nahida Khan‘s match-winning 68 and a collective disciplined showing from…

7:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ireland 135 (Balbrinie 46, Stirling 25, Smit 3-19, Williams 3-34) beat Namibia 108 (Erasmus 51, Singh 3-25, Adair 2-9) Spinners Gareth Delany and Simi Singh helped reduce Namibia to 20 for 3 in the Powerplay as Ireland defended 136 on a day when neither team batted 20 overs. Delany and Singh’s early wickets made a dent to Namibia’s scoring rate and subsequently put pressure on…

1:06 PM GMT Abdur Razzak has climbed to a new height among Bangladeshi cricketers by becoming the first bowler to reach 600 first-class wickets. Razzak, the veteran left-arm spinner, completed the milestone during Khulna Division’s NCL matchat the Shere Bangla National Stadium. Razzak began the match on 594 wickets, and swept past the milestone while bagging figures of 7 for 69 in Rangpur’s first innings. Six of Razzak’s wickets came…

7:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff India C 280 for 5 (Axar 98*, Virat Singh 76*, Karthik 34, Nadeem 2-37) beat India B 144 (Aparajith 53, Markande 4-25, Saxena 2-25, Porel 2-33) by 136 runs A fantastic rescue act from Axar Patel (98 not out) and Virat Singh (76 not out) paved the way for India C’s comprehensive win in what was effectively a dead Deodhar Trophy rubber against India B…

11:34 AM GMT Imad Wasim, Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Amir were among a group of Pakistan’s cricketers on the verge of a strike last week, until a meeting with PCB chief executive Wasim Khan averted the threat – for now. Frustration and discontent with the PCB’s restrictive participation policy on foreign leagues had been rising among the country’s leading white-ball cricketers – a number of them currently preparing for the…

Best time for us to try out young players – Rohit (4:04) India’s stand-in captain on his 12-year journey so far, his idea of captaincy and more (4:04) 11:32 AM GMT Sidharth Monga in Delhi “I am pretty sure. I do my homework.” Rohit Sharma, in an informal break from his press conference, might just have spoken about his best attribute as captain. Stepping in for designated captain Virat Kohli,…

Play 03:02 ‘Will look to try out a few youngsters in T20Is’ – Rathour Big Picture Amid Delhi’s air quality plummeting to hazardous levels, a severely depleted Bangladesh team will run into an Indian side that has hung up caution in trying to adapt to the changing T20 landscape. India will be without their rested captain Virat Kohli, but still have the wealth of experience and a variety of options…

Play 00:51 Butcher: Would like to see Banton in starting XI Big Picture There has been plenty bandied about in the build-up to this series about the World Cup final and New Zealand trying to erase some painful memories – perhaps a trip to Wellington can provide a psychic salve. Not only did their last outing at the Westpac result in an 80-run T20I thrashing of India, but it was…

7:00 AM GMT New South Wales 7 for 274 (Solway 129*, Nevill 53, Sayers 6-55) v South Australia Daniel Solway was forced to work harder than most for a Sheffield Shield debut. The habit he has developed for run-making served him well for New South Wales against South Australia as the 24-year old crafted an outstanding century in conditions friendly to seam bowling at Adelaide Oval to be the backbone…