3:03 PM GMT Paul Farbrace has admitted he is “worried” about Jos Buttler‘s form, but feels England should stick with him as their keeper for the Test series in Sri Lanka. While Farbrace, England’s former assistant coach, regards Buttler as a “brilliant professional” and a “selfless cricketer” he accepts he “needs to score runs” in
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7:07 AM GMT India 116 for 3 (Verma 47, Prabodhani 1-13) beat Sri Lanka 113 for 9 (Atapattu 33, Dilhari 25*, Radha 4-23, Gayakwad 2-18) by 7 wickets India’s spin bowlers strangled Sri Lanka, leaving an obligingly small target for Shafali Verma and her team-mates to run down and so take Harmanpreet Kaur’s team into
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.
4:33 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
8:07 AM GMT 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 Ravi Shastri, however, isn’t perturbed. “I wouldn’t judge
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
4:06 PM GMT Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna USA Cricket has reaffirmed their intentions to launch a “Minor League”
7:55 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New South Wales 373 (Hughes 103, Mennie 6-103) and 2 for 236 dec (Hughes 136) beat South Australia 207 (Copeland 5-63) and 269 (Ferguson 82, Cooper 62, Copeland 4-60) by 133 runs New South Wales surged to victory in the final session to consolidate their position at the top 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
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