Month: November 2018

3:00 AM ET Toss Pakistan chose to bat v New Zealand Azhar Ali plays a reverse sweep AFP Pakistan elected to bat first in Dubai after winning the toss. On a cool morning, Sarfraz Ahmed said the pitch was ripe for setting up the game with a handy first innings total, insisting the team had put

Nov 22, 2018 Big Picture Football didn’t bring it home for England, but cricket well might. And that may happen before their football manager Gareth Southgate’s waistcoat-inspired Christmas jumper becomes a nationwide rage. England’s entry into the first-ever standalone Women’s World T20 final came about in a manner similar to that of the other finalist

2:14 AM ET George Dobell in Colombo England were once again indebted to an outstanding piece of fielding from Keaton Jennings for a breakthrough on the second morning in Colombo. For the third time in the space of two Sri Lanka innings, Jennings pulled off an outstanding catch at short leg (to be scrupulously correct,

8:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Shuvagata Hom and Abu Hider shared nine wickets between them in the fourth innings as Central Zone beat South Zone by 77 runs in Sylhet. After the two sides were in a near deadlock after their respective first innings, South Zone were bowled out for 188 runs while chasing 266

7:31 AM ET Adil Rashid said that he is relishing being part of England’s three-man spin attack, with a clear remit to be the bowler who “makes things happen”, after producing a brilliant five-wicket haul to transform the balance of play in the third Test at Colombo. Rashid’s haul of 5 for 49 in 13.5

6:41 AM ET Over the course of their first Test against Bangladesh, West Indies had only two stands that went past fifty, one in each innings. Shimron Hetmyer and Shane Dowrich put on 92 runs for the sixth wicket in the first dig, while Sunil Ambris and Jomel Warrican added 63 runs for the ninth