8:00 AM GMT Tshwane Spartans 127 for 2 (De Villiers 69*, Klaasen 36*) beat Paarl Rocks 126 (Delport 25, Van der Merwe 3-15, Morkel 2-22) by eight wickets The Tshwane Spartans moved to the top of the Mzansi Super League table, with an eight-wicket bonus-point victory over the Paarl Rocks. Three teams – the Spartans,
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1:02 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Daniel Christian will return to Nottinghamshire for a sixth season in 2020, and will continue to captain the T20 side as he has done since 2016. Christian led the side to the T20 Blast title in 2017, and his side were well-placed to reach the final again this season until
8:00 AM GMT Afghanistan 187 and 109 for 7 (Ahmadi 62, Chase 3-10, Cornwall 3-41) lead West Indies 277 (Brooks 111, Campbell 55, Hamza 5-74) by 19 runs Shamarh Brooks‘ maiden Test century and Rahkeem Cornwall‘s match haul of ten wickets took West Indies to the doorstep of victory by the end of day two
Dane Vilas watches suspiciously © Getty Images Durban Heat 182 for 3 (Vilas 75*, Lubbe 49, Steyn 2-25) beat Cape Town Blitz 181 for 5 (Malan 75, Beddingham 44, Abbott 2-32) by seven wickets Cape Town Blitz’s Dale Steyn conjured a vintage spell with the new ball on his grandfather’s birthday, but Dane Vilas and
7:12 AM GMT Australia’s captain Tim Paine insists that it will take an awful lot for him ever to send an opposition side into bat after twice seeing his men struggle against England when he did so at Lord’s and The Oval. Perhaps this is just as well, because his talismanic No. 4 Steven Smith
1:01 AM GMT Jos Buttler is an injury doubt for the second Test in Hamilton have suffered a back spasm in training. Joe Root has confirmed that Ollie Pope will keep wicket if Buttler is unable to play. Pope has kept in just five first-class games, the last of which was in February. Rory Burns,
8:00 AM GMT The Report Sreshth Shah Paarl Rocks 166 for 7 (Vince 37, Tahir 2-19) beat Nelson Mandela Bay Giants 135 all out (Dunk 45, Viljoen 2-22, Shamsi 2-24, Adams 2-27, Fortuin 2-28) by 31 runs It took a team performance, in the truest sense of the phrase, for Paarl Rocks to beat Nelson
12:49 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer has declared that he is “over” the incident of racial abuse that marred the closing stages of last week’s first Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui, as England’s thoughts turn towards the challenge of squaring the series in the second Test at Hamilton, which begins on Friday
© Getty Images Emily Smith‘s three-month ban (with a further nine months suspended) by Cricket Australia will not be contested by the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA). However, the players’ association will provide her with employment for the term of the ban, and also seek an urgent meeting with the CA Board to better understand how
6:09 PM GMT Joe Denly has become the latest member of the England squad to call for better batting pitches in the County Championship. Denly, the Kent batsman, was one of the few England players to emerge with any credit after a poor display in the second innings of the first Test in Mount Maunganui.