5:39 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 board chairman Paraag Marathe and chief executive Iain Higgins
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2:08 PM GMT New Zealand 131 for 3 (Devine 75*) beat Sri Lanka 127 for 7 (Atapattu 41, Jensen 3-16) by seven wickets Sophie Devine wants to lead by example as New Zealand captain it was no surprise that she was unbeaten to marshal her team to a victory that stretched them for stages. In
5:15 AM GMT Sri Lanka chose to bowl v West Indies Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to field first at the SSC, expecting a little movement in the air and off the surface early in the day. The track itself appeared a good one-day pitch – suited to batting – and may settle
8:30 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff It would be easy to assume that Ashton Agar had been in fine form going into Friday’s T20I at the Wanderers, but after taking a hat-trick and 5 for 24 to bowl South Africa out for their lowest-ever score in the format, Australia’s spin-bowling allrounder revealed that he “was actually
1:18 PM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando On Wednesday, ahead of his first ODI series as Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur spoke about players being handed down well-defined roles within the team. On Friday, on the eve of the first one-dayer against West Indies, he went into a little more detail about what those roles were.
4:56 AM GMT When Peter Siddle retired from international cricket in the midst of last year’s Boxing Day Test at the MCG, Michael Neser was doing what he has been for most of the past two years – warming up with the Australian Test squad, training with them, bowling to them and living every moment
6:22 PM GMT George Dobell Nagraj Gollapudi Close News editor, ESPNcricinfo Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo The ECB is in talks with the BCCI about agreeing the involvement of some of the India women’s team in the inaugural edition of the Hundred later this year. However, the chances of India’s men also being
Welsh Fire head coach Gary Kirsten and star player Jonny Bairstow at The Hundred draft © Getty Images Tom Harrison, the ECB’s chief executive, has suggested the Hundred could be expanded to include teams from “the northeast and the southwest” in an attempt to reconnect with working-class communities. Harrison admitted “tough choices” had to be
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6:17 PM GMT As Sri Lanka and the West Indies prepare to square off in the first of three ODIs on Saturday – which will be followed by two T20Is next month – the series offers the chance for both sides to benchmark themselves as they work towards the T20 World Cup later this year.