2:11 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sophie Devine, the Adelaide Strikers and New Zealand allrounder, has been named player of the tournament for this season’s WBBL after playing a starring role in the Strikers’ progress to finals weekend. Devine currently tops the run-scoring with 699 at 77.66 and a strike-rate of 130.16 including eight half-centuries. Her 28 sixes puts her well ahead of the next best of 19 from Lizelle Lee….
Dec 1, 2019 New Zealand 375 (Latham 105, Mitchell 73, Watling 55, Broad 4-73) and 96 for 2 (Williamson 37*, Taylor 31*) trail England 476 (Root 226, Burns 101, Pope 75, Wagner 5-124) by five runs Joe Root confirmed his return to form with a masterful innings of 226, and Ollie Pope passed his own test of mettle with a maiden Test half-century, as England, at last, produced the single…
10:47 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Cameron Bancroft has been left out of Australia’s 13-man squad for the Test series against New Zealand, which starts in Perth next week, in an otherwise unchanged group from the one which swept Pakistan 2-0 with a brace of innings victories. James Pattinson, who was ruled out of the opening Test against Pakistan after his code of conduct suspension, and the uncapped Michael Neser remain…
6:15 PM GMT Mohammad Isam Close Bangladesh correspondent, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi Close News editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo BPL side Chattogram Challengers expect Chris Gayle to be available for them after he recovers from a hamstring injury. Gayle is likely to play in the BPL after January 4, after which Chattogram will have three league phase matches remaining. “Chris Gayle has a hamstring niggle,” Chattogram’s managing…
5:42 PM GMT Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna USA’s selectors have kept faith with the side’s touring party from Trinidad this past month by picking a largely unchanged 14-man squad for the ODI tour…
3:53 PM GMT Nagraj Gollapudi Close News editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo Gaurav Sundararaman Australia’s Glenn Maxwell and Chris Lynn are among seven players who have listed their base price at the maximum of INR 2 crore (USD 279,000 approx) for the IPL 2020 auction, scheduled for December 19 in Kolkata. Fellow Australian Mitchell Starc, the highest wicket-taker in the last two 50-over World Cups, was…
8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Nepal women 17 for 0 (Shrestha 13*) beat Maldives women 16 (Niyaz 9, Abdhulla 4, Chand 6-0) by ten wickets Nepal’s Anjali Chand set a new record for the best bowling figures in women’s T20Is, claiming 6 for 0 – yes, you read that right – to skittle Maldives out for 16 at the South Asian Games in Pokhara. Maldives, incidentally, were playing their first-ever…
11:59 AM GMT It speaks volumes for the enduring skills of Neil Wagner that, while other bowlers will look back at this series and shudder, he will reflect on it with a satisfied smile. For while bowlers as celebrated as Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad have laboured without much success – Archer has taken two wickets so far at a cost of 100.50 apiece, Broad four at 38.75 – Wagner…
11:49 AM GMT Babar Azam‘s graduation to the top rank of Test batsmen, via a superb century in Brisbane and an equally stirring 97 at Adelaide Oval, which earned him a standing ovation, was a rare ray of light for Pakistan through the murk of a 2-0 series thrashing at the hands of an opposition more battle-hardened than them. Pakistan’s captain Azhar Ali spoke happily of Babar’s displays, which began…
Pink ball behaves more like a white ball – Mitchell Starc (0:36) So when it goes soft it’s about managing the scoreboard, says the Australia fast bowler (0:36) 11:09 AM GMT Australia’s captain Tim Paine has called for an end to demands for a pink Test match ball that behaves identically to a red one, arguing that the players and followers needed to accept floodlit long-form cricket for the high…