Month: August 2020

9:44 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 150 for 9 (Bailey 5-17) v Lancashire – No result Rain forced the match to be abandoned with the points shared after Lancashire had restricted Leicestershire to 150-9 in the North Group Vitality Blast match at Grace Road. It was particularly frustrating for the visitors, who played some fine out-cricket after captain Dane Vilas won the toss and put the Foxes in. Vilas…

9:27 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 150 for 7 (Cooke 51*, Higgins 3-29) beat Gloucestershire 135 (van Buuren 53, Salter 4-20) by 15 runs Andrew Salter claimed four for 20 as Glamorgan kick-started their Vitality Blast Central Group campaign with a 15-run victory over Gloucestershire at the Bristol County Ground. The visitors ran up 150 for 7 on slow pitch after losing the toss, Chris Cooke top-scoring with 51…

8:55 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Southern Vipers 208 for 3 (Wyatt 66) beat Sunrisers 202 (Villiers 64, Scholfield 3-33) by seven wickets Danni Wyatt opened her Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy account with an effortless 66 as Southern Vipers thumped Sunrisers by seven wickets at Chelmsford. Experienced England allrounder Wyatt dominated with seven boundaries during a 111 run-stand for the first wicket, which put the Vipers in complete control of…

8:30 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Northern Diamonds 145 for 1 (Winfield 72, Armitage 54) beat Central Sparks 144 (Brunt 5-20) by nine wickets Northern Diamonds got their Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy campaign off to a near-perfect start with a comprehensive nine-wicket victory over Central Sparks at Edgbaston. The visitors comfortably chased down a target of 144 thanks to a 139-run opening partnership between Lauren Winfield and Hollie Armitage. Katherine…

8:23 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Northamptonshire 128 for 1 (Stirling 80*) beat Worcestershire 124 for 7 (Haynes 41) by nine wickets Paul Stirling delivered a superb match-winning debut for Northamptonshire Steelbacks who overwhelmed Worcestershire Rapids by nine wickets in a Vitality Blast encounter at New Road. Stirling had showed his awesome power earlier in the month when smashing 142 for Ireland in their ODI triumph over England at the…

Fantasy pick – Take a chance with Tom Banton as captain (7:42) Ramiz Raja joins Nikhil Naz to pick a fantasy XI for the second T20I between England and Pakistan  (7:42) 8:03 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff England v Pakistan, 2nd T20I, Manchester NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury (or other relevant) updates, so do wait for the toss before finalising your XI….

6:57 PM IST Shashank Kishore Virat Kohli said that his first net session in five months “went much better than expected” after Royal Challengers Bangalore’s first training session on Friday in the UAE. The team trained in batches and Kohli was part of the first set of players who underwent a full session at the ICC Academy. “[It went] much better than expected, to be honest,” Kohli told the franchise…

Marcus Stoinis has returned to the set-up for the first time since last year’s World Cup  3:45 PM IST Marcus Stoinis is aiming to bring some inventiveness back into his batting if he gets the chance to resume his Australia career on the tour of England. Stoinis has returned to the set-up for the first time since last year’s World Cup as part of the 21-man squad for the T20I…

2:50 PM IST Craig McMillan has said that in his new role as Bangladesh’s batting consultant he would look to build relationships with the players rather than making wholesale changes. McMillan, who was appointed on Bangladesh’s support staff last week for the upcoming three-match Test series against Sri Lanka, will be joining the squad next month during the tour’s preparatory phase. McMillan, who was New Zealand’s batting coach for five…