10:21 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo Sarah Glenn took a big step in her mission to prove herself as an all-round prospect for England with a match-winning performance on the international stage. Glenn claimed the important wickets of Deandra Dottin and Stafanie Taylor as part of England’s three-pronged spin attack, who shared six of West Indies’ eight wickets to fall between them…
Eddie Byrom resists for Somerset as autumn weather seizes the day
12:05 AM IST Somerset 119 for 4 (Byrom 51*, Davies 19*) v Essex It’s one of the great ironies of the season that the first-class competition should be named in honour of Bob Willis. While Willis was, without doubt, a passionate supporter of the game in England, he wasn’t necessarily a supporter of the county game. There were, he thought, too many first-class counties, playing too many games. He had…
Rohit Sharma's heroics takes Mumbai Indians to first win in UAE
11:55 PM IST Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Mumbai Indians 195 for 5 (Rohit 80, Suryakumar 47, Mavi 2-32) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 146 for 9 (Cummins 33, Karthik 30, Pattinson 2-25) by 49 runs A clinical Mumbai Indians played true to form to shrug off their opening game loss in IPL 2020 with a 49-run win over the Kolkata Knight Riders. Put in…
West Indies win toss, bowl first against England in 2nd T20I, both sides unchanged
10:13 PM IST Valkerie Baynes Close Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo West Indies win toss, bowl vs England West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl first in the second of five T20Is against England in Derby. Both sides are unchanged from the first match, won by England comfortably with a by 47-run margin following Tammy Beaumont‘s 62 off 49 balls from her favoured position as…
Aaron Finch feels Josh Philippe can succeed in finisher role
Josh Philippe would be hoping to impress in his rookie IPL season © BCCI Aaron Finch‘s arrival has added more quality to Royal Challengers Bangalore’s top order, but their squishy middle and lower order came into focus during their narrow opening win against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday. After a blistering start, led by Devdutt Padikkal, the 20-year-old IPL debutant, captain Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers added only 33 off…
Tom Curran braced for more Sharjah mayhem after six-laden opening match
2:43 PM GMT Tom Curran reckons that the opening night of the IPL in Sharjah offered a sign of things to come for bowling attacks in this year’s competition, after the Rajasthan Royals out-muscled the Chennai Super Kings in a bat-dominated contest that featured a record-equalling 33 sixes across the two innings. Curran himself was subjected to six of those, including three in a row in the final over of…
Shaheen Afridi 'focusing on all formats' with red-ball cricket 'not going anywhere'
2:03 PM GMT Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Afridi says he aspires to grow across all formats rather than focusing on just white-ball cricket. He recently grabbed impressive figures of 6 for 19 for Hampshire in the Vitality Blast but insisted that there was a lot ahead in his career to make a name for. Afridi rose through the ranks at a time when Mohammad Amir was beginning to fade away…
Abu Jayed tests positive for Covid-19
1:56 PM GMT Abu Jayed has become the latest Bangladesh cricketer to test positive for Covid-19, the update coming at the end of the latest round of tests conducted by the BCB on Monday. The news about Abu Jayed testing positive came on the day Saif Hassan tested negative – in his third test – after two positives in the last two weeks. Fast bowler Jayed was in the 27-man…
Multan, Rawalpindi to host Pakistan's white-ball series against Zimbabwe
1:54 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Multan will host international cricket after a gap of over 12 years when Pakistan’s three-ODI series against Zimbabwe is held there from October 30 to November 3. This will be followed by a series of three T20Is, all in Rawalpindi, before the visitors return home after a three-week stay in Pakistan, a tour that Zakir Khan, the PCB’s director of international cricket, said “strengthens Pakistan’s…
Royal Challengers Bangalore's lower order, Kings XI Punjab's death bowling in sharp focus
KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal, two of the many Karnataka boys in the Kings XI Punjab team © BCCI Big picture On the eve of the IPL’s opening match, the Royal Challengers Bangalore released a new anthem, which triggered a social-media backlash from fans who were angry that most of its lyrics were in Hindi rather than Kannada, the official language of Karnataka, the state the team is based in….