6:00 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kagiso Rabada has sustained a groin strain and will take no further part in the Australia tour to South Africa. He has been further ruled out of the team’s subsequent tour to India starting early next month, and faces a race to get fit in time for Delhi Capitals’ IPL
5:11 PM GMT Lahore Qalandars have won the toss and as expected chose to field first in a rain-shortened affair to 12 overs, with further disruptions possible. The toss was delayed more than two hours due to poor weather in Rawalpindi before skies cleared to allow for a contest reduced by eight overs. The pitch
11:07 PM GMT New Zealand chose to bowl v India New Zealand won their second toss of the series, and asked India to bat on a green Hagley Oval pitch after a rain-enforced delayed start to play. The last time New Zealand lost a home Test after winning the toss was way back in 2009.
4:52 PM GMT George Dobell Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 The PCB is hopeful that an England Lions squad will tour Pakistan next winter. ESPNcricinfo understands that the PCB’s managing director Wasim Khan has engaged in discussions with the ECB, with the hope that a
10:43 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Adam Zampa is four years old in international cricket, and is Australia’s first-choice white-ball spinner, but he still doesn’t feel “comfortable” at this level. Although that may not necessarily be a bad thing. “Even now I don’t feel comfortable, which is probably a good thing to be honest – same
11:16 AM GMT England 158 for 7 (Knight 62, Aiman Anwer 3-30) beat Pakistan 116 (Shrubsole 3-25, Glenn 3-15) by 42 runs England took a stride towards qualification from Group B of the Women’s T20 World Cup by thrashing Pakistan in Canberra. After surprisingly being inserted by Pakistan’s skipper Bismah Maroof, England overcame an early
10:25 AM GMT Amid all the carnage left in the wake of the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, the city also lost its primary cricket venue, Lancaster Park. With time, the boutique Hagley Oval, located within the approximately 165-hectare Hagley Park, became the city’s new Test centre. The two venues can’t be any more dissimilar
2:38 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jasprit Bumrah has had a lean run since his return from a stress fracture, sustained last year. He showed signs off rust in his first international game, a T20I match in Indore in January, on return, and later he went wicketless in the three-match ODI series in New Zealand. In
12:37 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Mark Wood’s injury-plagued career has suffered another massive setback, with the news that he will miss England’s Test tour of Sri Lanka after the re-occurrence of a left side strain. Wood was England’s stand-out seamer on the recent tour of South Africa, claiming 12 wickets in his two appearances at
9:17 AM GMT Mushfiqur Rahim has stressed that he would not change his mind about skipping the tour of Pakistan, despite BCB president Nazmul Hassan’s tough stance on the matter, where he said that Mushfiqur was “contract-bound” to tour with the rest of the team. “I made my stance clear about Pakistan, and they [BCB]
Quinton de Kock flays one through the covers © AFP via Getty Images Big picture After a topsy-turvy T20I series, in which South Africa’s heaviest-ever short-form defeats were punctuated with a from-behind win at Port Elizabeth, these two sides head into a three-match ODI series devoid of any context in contrasting shape. Australia have picked
In a snippet from the upcoming documentary series ‘The Test’, see how the Australian players dealt with the rowdy England fans during the away Ashes tour. Don’t miss The Test, streaming March 12 on Amazon Prime Video.
Find out more at ecb.co.uk Watch the highlights from a thrilling Trent Bridge Test which England narrowly won by three wickets. Andrew Flintoff’s maiden Ashes hundred put the hosts in command but there was drama during a jittery chase before Ashley Giles hit the winning runs. This is the official channel of the ECB. Watch
Player of the match Avishka Fernando at Post Match Press Conference – 2nd ODI
Neil Wagner in his bowling action © Getty Images Big picture In Wellington, India came face to face with how subtle New Zealand’s home advantage is. Theirs is not the kind of dominance that comes from knowing no other place can produce two spinners of the quality you have. Or batsmen who demoralise opponents before
Ravindra Jadeja gives a thumbs-up to the dressing room © BCCI India have lost their last four international games on their tour of New Zealand, following up a 3-0 defeat in the ODI series with a 10-wicket loss in the first Test in Wellington, which snapped a seven-match winning streak in the format. Their coach
5:57 PM GMT Rory Burns believes the injury that curtailed his winter with the Test team may prove “a good thing” for English cricket in the long term. Burns sustained serious ligament damage when playing football in warm-up the day before the second Test against South Africa. He subsequently underwent surgery and was ruled out
3:25 AM GMT Australia’s World Cup campaign remains on a knife-edge but their convincing victory against Bangladesh was forged from their most convincing top-order display since the series against Sri Lanka last year. The 151-run opening stand between Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney followed two uncertain displays in the matches against India and Sri Lanka,
6:06 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sunrisers Hyderabad have announced David Warner as their captain for the upcoming IPL that starts on March 29. Warner takes over from Kane Williamson , who led the side in 2018 and 2019. Williamson was named captain in 2018 after Warner had been barred from participating in that season of
7:24 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ian Watmore has been named as the ECB’s new chairman and will succeed Colin Graves when he leaves the post in November 2020. Watmore, 61, was chief executive of the FA for nine months in 2009-10, during which time he launched the Women’s Super League and the St. George’s Park
5:29 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Melbourne Stars coach David Hussey thinks allrounder Marcus Stoinis should play for Australia in all three formats, such is his value and versatility as a cricketer. Stoinis was Player of the Tournament in the recently concluded Big Bash League, setting a new tournament record with a tally of 705 runs,
12:21 PM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando Thisara Perera has made a return to Sri Lanka’s T20I squad after missing the series in India, while fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep and spin-bowling allrounder Shehan Jayasuriya also earn recalls. There was no room, however, for batsmen such as Bhanuka Rajapaksa and Oshada Fernando, who had both impressed in
11:40 AM GMT ESPN Staff February 28: Women’s T20 World Cup – South Africa v Thailand, Canberra Our XI: Lizelle Lee, Nannapat Koncharoenkai, Nattakan Chantam, Nattaya Boochatham, Chloe Tryon, Marizanne Kapp, Dane van Niekerk, Sune Luus, Shabnim Ismail, Ayabonga Khaka, Suleeporn Laomi Captain: Dane van Niekerk Captain of the South Africa side, one of their
7:58 AM GMT The pitch in Christchurch for the second New Zealand-India Test looks as green as the one that was rolled out for the first Test in Wellington, but India might be expecting life to be a little easier for their batsmen. While there might be a similar amount of seam and swing, especially
12:07 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Joe Root has advocated the use of the Kookaburra ball for half of the County Championship season and an increase in the value of batting bonus points. A switch from the current Dukes ball, which has a more prominent seam and favours old-fashioned swing bowlers, to a Kookaburra for some
11:30 AM GMT Australia 189 for 1 (Healy 83, Mooney 81*) beat Bangladesh 9 for 103 (Fargana 36, Schutt 3-21) by 86 runs Australia flexed their muscles on the back of a record opening stand to set themselves up for a likely winner-takes-all final group match against New Zealand as Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney
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Shikha Pandey celebrates Rachel Priest’s wicket © Getty Images India 8 for 133 (Verma 46, Kerr 2-21, Mair 2-27) beat New Zealand 6 for 129 (Kerr 34*) by four runs India squeezed past an error-prone New Zealand into the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals and probable tournament favouritism, after Shafali Verma added to her tournament highlight
3:47 PM GMT South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first vs Australia South Africa will chase in the deciding T20 against Australia in a bid to win a first series since March 2019 without a specialist opener. Temba Bavuma has not recovered from the hamstring injury that has kept him out of
9:12 PM GMT It’s already got to the stage where we can start to feel sorry for Quinton de Kock. He has inherited a team on a downward spiral even as his own career is on the up. Aside from his promotion to the leadership role, de Kock has been South Africa’s leading run-scorer in
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