Month: November 2020

6:39 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sydney Thunder 4 for 144 (Haynes 61*, Knight 57) beat Perth Scorchers 120 (Mooney 61, Bates 3-9) by 24 runs Heather Knight produced another fine display as the Thunder maintained their strong start to the competition. Knight made her second half-century of the tournament, adding 108 with captain Rachael Haynes who top-scored with 61, then claimed two wickets as the Scorchers lost their way against…

The National Stadium in Karachi is spruced up in the build-up to the Pakistan leg of PSL 2019  6:42 AM GMT Bismillah Khan, the Balochistan wicketkeeper-batsman, has tested positive for Covid-19 in Karachi. Khan had shown symptoms during the second round match against Southern Punjab in the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, but wasn’t tested until the fourth day, after which he was substituted on the field by Adnan Akmal. Khan spent the…

4:08 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Tim Southee, Neil Wagner and Colin de Grandhomme are part of a growing injury list for New Zealand but coach Gary Stead is hopeful that most of the problems are not long-term concerns ahead of the start of the international summer against West Indies. However, left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel has suffered a setback in his recovery from the calf strain that has delayed the start…

Bishop: Cummins has kept doing the right things even if he wasn’t getting wickets (2:10) Ian Bishop and Sanjay Manjrekar reflect on Cummins’ match-winning spell (2:10) 1:12 AM GMT The group stage of the IPL is completed which means the end of the road for some of the Australians on display, while a few retain hope of getting their hands on the prize. Here’s how the final qualifying matches played…

7:22 PM GMT Here’s a look at how the three games in the latest round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy panned out… Southern Punjab bounce back after conceding lead Southern Punjab scripted a superb comeback after falling 41 runs behind in the first innings, bowling Balochistan out for 112 in the second dig to set up a moderate 154-run chase. Lespinner Zahid Mahmood played a big role in that, picking up…

7:02 PM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Marlon Samuels, the West Indies batsman who top-scored in both of their World T20 final victories, has retired from professional cricket. Johnny Grave, the Cricket West Indies chief executive, confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that Samuels had told CWI of his retirement in June, having last played in December 2018. While Samuels’ career ends…

6:19 PM GMT Hemant Brar Manali Dakshini, M Anagha and Ayushi Soni. Those are the three players, according to Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur, to watch out for during the Women’s T20 Challenge 2020, which kicks off Wednesday when Kaur’s Supernovas take on Raj’s Velocity in Sharjah. In the last edition, India had discovered Shafali Verma, the hard-hitting opener who then earned a T20I call-up and was the highest run-getter…

5:53 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Babar Azam admitted that poor fielding had let his side down in the third and final ODI against Zimbabwe, saying that Pakistan need to work on that aspect of their game to ensure it doesn’t cost them in tight games in the future. Speaking after a pulsating game that Zimbabwe nicked in the Super Over, Azam pointed to some of the dropped catches that had…

Agarkar: Sandeep looks innocuous but gets the big wickets (1:41) Deep Dasgupta says the medium-pacer does not give any pace to the batsmen to work with (1:41) 11:20 PM IST Alagappan Muthu Sunrisers Hyderabad 151 for 0 (Warner 85*, Saha 58*) beat Mumbai Indians 149 for 8 (Pollard 41, Sandeep 3-34) by 10 wickets The Sunrisers Hyderabad had to beat the top three teams in the IPL to qualify for…