9:51 AM ET Marcus Stoinis will miss Australia’s match against Sri Lanka at The Oval on Saturday as he continues to recover from a side strain. Selectors will give him every chance to prove his fitness ahead of their next match against Bangladesh, on June 20, before deciding on his future in the tournament. Stoinis
3:00 AM ET South Africa 131 for 1 (de Kock 68, Amla 40*) beat Afghanistan 125 all out (Rashid 35, Tahir 4-29, Morris 3-13) by nine wickets South Africa have finally won one. So far have the Proteas’ stocks fallen in this tournament after three defeats and an unconvincing outing against West Indies, that an
1:07 PM ET Shoaib Malik will be in Pakistan’s XI in their game against India at Old Trafford on Sunday. Malik’s participation in the game has been the subject of some speculation after a series of poor returns in the World Cup, but in a rare public show of faith, both Sarfaraz Ahmed and Mickey
shares Shakib Al Hasan misses with an attempted hoick in the nets © Raton Gomes/BCB The Bangladesh batsmen had a major homework to get through in the lead-up to their next game, against West Indies in Taunton: deal with the short ball. Looking at the way the West Indian pacers have gone so far
3:00 AM ET Australia 334 for 7 (Finch 153, Smith 73, Maxwell 46) beat Sri Lanka 247 (Karunaratne 97, Kusal Perera 52, Starc 4-55) by 87 runs Australia’s best stuff, personified by Aaron Finch, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Starc, looked world-beating against Sri Lanka at The Oval. Yet there were still signs that
Afghanistan v South Africa, World Cup 2019, Cardiff June 15, 2019 shares Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s live updates on today’s World Cup encounter from Cardiff. Both South Africa and Afghanistan are searching for their first win. Whose day will it be? (Please refresh your page if the blog doesn’t load.) Liam Brickhill is ESPNcricinfo’s South
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka A 260 for 3 (Dickwella 111, Cooray 65, Shreyas 3-49) beat India A 259 (Gaikwad 74, Dananjaya 3-51) by seven wickets Niroshan Dickwella‘s ninth List A century and his 165-run opening partnership with Sangeeth Cooray set Sri Lanka A on the track for a seven-wicket win against India
4:31 AM ET Daniel BrettigAssistant editor, ESPNcricinfo Close Assistant editor Daniel Brettig had been a journalist for eight years when he joined ESPNcricinfo, but his fascination with cricket dates back to the early 1990s, when his dad helped him sneak into the family lounge room to watch the end of day-night World Series matches well
9:30 AM ET England’s batting plans have been thrown into disarray by injuries to Jason Roy and Eoin Morgan during the game in Southampton against West Indies. Both men had to go off the field during the West Indies innings. Roy, the opener, will be unable to bat until five wickets have fallen in the
3:00 AM ET Big picture If Sri Lanka’s chances of progressing to the semi-finals of the World Cup are slightly better than the one in a million offered to Lloyd Christmas by Mary Swanson in Dumb and Dumber, it’s not by much. But just as Lloyd replied with a goggle-eyed “So you’re telling me there’s
2:14 PM ET The West Indies’ first two was in the 17th over of the innings. Some of that is down to the fact that Chris Gayle is ancient, and they have replaced his hamstrings with biscuits. They are stiff, but they also crumble. But it’s also about the way the West Indies play. Since
12:01 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka team manager Ashantha de Mel has complained to the ICC about the “unfair” pitches he feels Sri Lanka have had to play their matches on, as well as the less-than-ideal training facilities and accommodation. The ICC has strongly denied the accusation that there has been favouritism. Although their
3:00 AM ET Big picture South Africa know what they have to do: win every game. You might call that a ‘known known’. Then, there are the known unknowns, the things South Africa do not, or cannot know. Would AB de Villiers have made a difference? What if Dale Steyn had never gone to the
1:38 PM ET Old Trafford wore a soggy look at 10am on Friday. Overhead, it was grey. It wasn’t cold, but there was a light shower on. Fifteen minutes later, it was pouring. The pitch had been secured by the hover cover, while the rest of the square was covered by sheets. More sheets covered
3:00 AM ET England 213 for 2 (Root 100*, Bairstow 45) beat West Indies 212 (Pooran 63, Wood 3-18, Archer 3-30) by eight wicketsAs it happened This was supposed to be a 350 meets 350 match. At least 300 versus 300. And, for those who dared hope, 400 from both teams. In the end, the
11:04 AM ET Mohammad Isam in Taunton Bangladesh’s dominance over West Indies in the last twelve months has provided one of the foundation stones of their confidence coming into the World Cup. They have won seven out of nine ODI meetings in this period, winning bilateral series both home and away, and blanking West Indies
12:30 PM ET Aaron Finch has been giving Australia rapid starts at the World Cup, but he has all but given up on his professional stay in England extending past mid-July and into the Ashes. On the eve of Australia’s fifth World Cup match, against Sri Lanka at The Oval, Finch was asked if he
12:20 AM ET South African middle-order batsman Rassie van der Dussen was “not surprised” to hear AB de Villiers wanted to play in the 2019 World Cup but believes it would have set a “difficult precedent” if the former captain was included. It would also likely have meant van der Dussen himself would not be
2:05 AM ET When does a cricketer feel at home in a team? Some get that sense within the minutes of their first match for a side, others may go seasons without ever quite feeling a part of it, whatever their performances or how things look in all the on-field backslapping. The Australian team can
10:34 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowler Vivian Kingma and teenage allrounder Bas de Leede have been brought back in a string of changes to Netherlands’ 13-member squad for two ODIs and as many T20Is against a touring Zimbabwe. Allrounder Ryan ten Doeschate is not available due to his county commitments with Essex while fellow
8:57 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shikhar Dhawan‘s fractured left hand will be assessed after 10-12 days and India captain Virat Kohli hopes the batsman’s positive mindset will help his recovery. Dhawan was injured in the match against Australia played on June 9, during which he scored a century, and therefore the earliest he will go
8:44 AM ET Fast bowler Mark Wood is set to undergo a fitness test on Friday morning ahead of England’s World Cup match against West Indies. Wood, who has bowled the fastest delivery (154kph) in the tournament to date, reported discomfort in his left ankle following Saturday’s victory over Bangladesh. With rain forcing England to
10:51 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Seniors Hamilton Masakadza and Brendan Taylor, who had been sidelined from the ODI series against UAE with injuries, have returned to Zimbabwe’s squad for their limited-overs tour of Netherlands, which starts with the first ODI in Deventer on June 19. Masakadza will take back captaincy from Peter Moor, who had
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Thrill-seekers, “atten-shun!” Here’s a clash of the heavyweights to make the mouth water (assuming the water that’s currently on the Hampshire Bowl outfield deigns to recede in good time, of course). A tussle between two of the hardest-hitting batting line-ups in the tournament, not to mention some of the fastest,
9:25 AM ET Danyal Rasool Mohammad Amir‘s spell against Australia was one of the few bright moments on a day that, for Pakistan fans, proved grey in more ways than one. Under overcast conditions at Taunton, Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed looked especially pleased to have won the toss and put Australia in; Pakistan had left
3:00 AM ET India v New Zealand Match abandoned without tossAs it happened India and New Zealand took a point each and remained the only unbeaten teams in the tournament as rain prevented even a toss from happening at Trent Bridge. As things stood before the match, a result would have either further solidified New
11:41 AM ET Alec Stewart has emerged as a leading candidate to replace Trevor Bayliss as head coach of England. While some other high-profile candidates – notably Gary Kirsten – appear to have been put off by the decision not to split the roles of Test and limited-overs coaches, Stewart is seen as an ideal
1:05 PM ET Sidharth Monga Kane Richardson would have challenged Justin Langer if the Australia coach had told him to his face that he didn’t seem to have the bottle to come back and play for Australia again. Before the start of the World Cup, Langer used Richardson as an example of how far the
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 208 for 4 (Anmolpreet 85*, Gaikwad 84, Kumara 2-34) v Sri Lanka A 10 for 1 Match abandoned Maharashtra batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad extended his rich run of form – he fell 16 short of his third successive hundred – before rain forced the abandonment of the fourth one-dayer
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