8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England 170 for 3 (Knight 43) beat Pakistan 144 for 5 (Javeria 57, Glenn 2-12) by 26 runs Pakistan pushed England close but could not prevent defeat and a 3-0 whitewash in the T20I series in Kuala Lumpur. Javeria Khan top-scored in the match with 57, but England kept a grip on the scoring rate to close out the game. England, who rested Nat Sciver…
© Getty Images Melbourne Stars 7 for 167 (Maxwell 83, Zahir 1-29) beat Brisbane Heat 8 for 145 (Banton 64, Zampa 3-30) by 22 runs After a short break from cricket, Glenn Maxwell returned with a brilliant 83 to spur Melbourne Stars’ 22-run victory over winless Brisbane Heat at Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast. Heat’s chase of 168 was on track with Tom Banton plundering a 35-ball 64, but…
10:35 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Peter Trego has signed a two-year contract at Nottinghamshire in a deal that will see him continue his playing career into his 40s. Trego’s departure from Somerset at the end of the 2019 season initially appeared to signal the end of his career, but he insisted that he wanted to play on and has been brought in to add experience to a young Nottinghamshire side….
9:46 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin has lashed out at the Tamil Nadu cricket administration, the team management and senior players for driving the state’s first-class cricket to a perilous situation where players are “succumbing to the basics of cricket.” “I don’t know where to start and where to end, to be honest, because I don’t think there is any lack of effort,” Ashwin, the India and Tamil Nadu…
Play 04:26 Hello, IPL’s new millionaires Chennai Super Kings Who they had: Ambati Rayudu, KM Asif, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir, N Jagadeesan, Karn Sharma, Kedar Jadhav, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Monu Singh, MS Dhoni, M Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Suresh Raina Who they bought: Sam Curran, Piyush Chawla, Josh Hazlewood, R Sai Kishore Money spent: INR 84.85 crore…
8:09 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The Somerset duo of offspinner Dom Bess and medium-pacer Craig Overton have been called up to England’s Test squad ahead of the first Test against South Africa – starting on Boxing Day in Centurion – after a bug swept through the touring party, leaving a number of players unwell. The two are expected to reach Johannesburg on Saturday morning. As reported earlier, England’s tour match…
Qais Ahmad’s 4 for 12 swung the low-scoring game the Hurricanes’ way © Getty Images Hobart Hurricanes 9 for 129 (Short 51, Abbott 3-20) beat Sydney Sixers 104 (Qais 4-12) by 25 runs Afghanistan’s Qais Ahmad delivered a magical spell of wrist spin to sink the Sydney Sixers on an enervating day in Alice Springs and hand the Hobart Hurricanes an opening victory in the BBL. The Sixers had appeared…
5:42 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa’s plans for the first Test against England have been hit by an injury to Temba Bavuma, who has picked up a Grade 1 hip flexor muscle strain, scans have revealed. Bavuma, the 29-year-old batsman, will remain with the squad and begin his rehabilitation programme with the team’s medical staff “with the goal of returning to play within seven to ten days”, Shuaib Manjra,…
2:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Usman Khawaja has spoken of his “shock” at being omitted from Australia’s one-day squad for the tour of India after being the team’s second-highest run-scorer in 2019. Khawaja was one of seven members of the World Cup squad that did not make the new-look team for the three-match tour of India next month. It follows his omission from the Test side during the Ashes which…
5:57 PM GMT Our XI Tom Banton, Chris Lynn, Max Bryant, Ben Dunk, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Cutting, Sandeep Lamichhane, Adam Zampa, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Brown NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury (or other relevant) updates Captain: Marcus Stoinis Stars’ most important player, who dazzled as opener last season, is probably the best pick against a Heat bowling unit that looked…