‘Hopefully we will all be united and with Amir, and we will allow him to bowl really well and get wickets for Pakistan’ – Azhar Ali © AFP Azhar Ali has said he and Mohammad Amir had “moved on” from the complications that beset Amir’s reintegration to the Pakistan team, in the approach to the New Zealand tour. He said he would focus on captaining Amir, and helping create an…
Match facts January 25, 2015Start time 1100 local (2200 GMT) Play 01:10 Pakistan look to bounce back after T20s Big Picture Injuries have hampered New Zealand’s seam attack over the recent limited-overs series. Key batsmen have been sidelined by niggles. They will be without their three most experienced ODI cricketers on Monday, but still, so good have they been at home, New Zealand still appear the more dynamic team. Of…
Steven Smith would like to have seen a greater variety in pitches during the ODI series © Getty Images Australia’s captain Steven Smith has criticised the nature of home pitches this summer, arguing that the Gabba and the WACA Ground in particular have work to do to ensure they regain their natural characteristics in the future. Following the loss of the fifth and final ODI against India in Sydney, Smith…
Play 03:37 Brettig : Women cricket needs two format to be strong and vital Women’s cricket will never lose its longer form components under James Sutherland’s watch, despite murmurings beneath him at Cricket Australia about exploiting the commercial gains of the inaugural WBBL by making the female game an exclusively Twenty20 affair. ESPNcricinfo has learned of discussions that open up the possibility of the 50-over and Test match formats being…
Trinidad & Tobago 270 for 7 (Bravo 97, K Hope 34, C Brathwaite 2-54) beat Barbados 198 (S Hope 50, C Brathwaite 46, Emrit 3-46) by 72 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details File photo: Darren Bravo’s 97 gave Trinidad & Tobago a platform for comfortable victory © LatinContent/Getty Images Darren Bravo‘s hot bat put Barbados on ice as Trinidad & Tobago secured their second straight Nagico Super50 title with a 72-run…
23 January 2016 | David Clark Tweet Alastair Cook’s first half-century of the series steadied England’s reply to South Africa’s 475 all out as the tourists closed on 138 for two at Centurion. Captain Cook requires another 50 runs tomorrow to become the first Englishman to 10,000 in Test cricket – a feat only 11 players have achieved in the history of the game. Of…
Ben Stokes wants England to get up towards South Africa’s 475 on day three of the fourth Test and bring back memories of the hosts’ second-innings collapse in Johannesburg. England will resume in the morning on 138 for two with Alastair Cook and Joe Root well set on 67 and 31 respectively. Cook’s men are 337 runs away from parity at Centurion – and Stokes believes getting there would pile the…
England 138 for 2 (Cook 67*, Compton 31*) trail South Africa 475 (De Kock 129*, Cook 115, Amla 109, Stokes 4-86) by 337 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 01:16 De Kock cements South Africa’s control Quinton de Kock announced his arrival among the ranks of attacking wicketkeeper-batsmen to be reckoned with as he raced to an enterprising maiden Test century which has positioned South Africa for a consolation victory on…
Sam Curran produced a stunning bowling performance as England continued their preparations for the Under-19 World Cup with an emphatic 155-run victory over Namibia in Chittagong. Curran, the youngest player in the squad who only turned 17 in June but made a remarkable impact in Surrey’s first team last summer, took 5-10 in eight overs as Namibia were dismissed for 152 in reply to an England total of 307 for…
Only two South African batsmen have made higher Test scores at No. 7 than Quinton de Kock © ESPNcricinfo Ltd 129* Quinton de Kock’s score, his maiden century in Tests, and the second highest of his nine international hundreds. His highest is 135 in an ODI against India in Johannesburg in 2013. His unbeaten 129 is also the third highest by a South African No. 7 batsman in Tests: the…