6:32 AM ET The UAE T10 franchise Karchians is working out a new team name after a court in Pakistan ordered against using the word “Karachians” or anything “phonetically deceptive or resembling name”. The Karachians is one of the eight franchises in the tournament, which is due to begin on November 21 and apparently draws
Month: November 2018
3:00 AM ET Lunch Pakistan 144 for 4 (Shafiq 25*, Babar 24*, Boult 2-29) trail New Zealand 153 by nine runs Azhar Ali slices one towards point AFP Pakistan came out of Saturday’s first session in an awfully better situation than the run of play might have suggested. New Zealand’s bowlers were in charge over large
3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 336 and 93 for 3 (Karunaratne 54*, Mathews 28*) need a further 208 runs to beat England 290 and 346 (Root 123, Foakes 65*, Burns 59, Dananjaya 6-115)Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Jack Leach uprooted three Sri Lanka wickets in the space of 14 runs, but the second Dimuth Karunaratne
Anya Shrubsole said she’s “not sure” how she got her hat-trick at Gros Islet and instead turned the spotlight on her team-mate Natalie Sciver, as the duo played key roles in bowling South Africa out for 85 and knocking them out of the Women’s World T20 Shrubsole, Player of the Final at last year’s World
3:00 AM ET New South Wales 279 & 0-33 (Larkin 20*, Hughes 12*) lead Queensland 260 (Neser 62, Labuschagne 52, Lyon 4-83) by 52 runs Mark Steketee celebrates a wicket with his teammates Getty Images A four-wicket haul from New South Wales spinner Nathan Lyon was overshadowed by a stunning rear-guard from Queensland duo Michael Neser
2:00 AM ET Mexican birdie machine Abraham Ancer has burst from the pack to seize command of the Australian Open after a drama-charged third round in Sydney. No less than eight players topped the leaderboard at various stages on Saturday on the windswept Lakes layout, but it was Ancer who had all the answers in
Nov 14, 2018 Steve KimESPN After getting knocked out by Danny Garcia in February, former lightweight world titleholder Brandon Rios announced his retirement from boxing. Yet this Saturday night, he will be facing Ramon Alvarez at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane, Kansas. And if he had it his way, this will be far from
1:22 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Jimmy Butler is having fun again. The four-time All-Star made that clear after his first win in a Sixers uniform. “It’s so fun to win. So much more fun to play with these guys,” Butler said in an interview with NBC Sports Philadelphia after scoring 28 points on 12-of-15 shooting
1:07 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Before this season began, the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors were pegged as the teams most likely to square off in the Eastern Conference finals for the right to claim the throne left vacant by LeBron James moving West. Then the season started. And while the Raptors looked
1:06 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Junior welterweight world titleholder Maurice Hooker was a successful road warrior again on Friday night. Hooker, in the hometown of mandatory challenger Alex Saucedo, survived a hard knockdown in the second round and came back to stop Saucedo in the seventh of a wild action-packed fight as he retained