5:39 PM GMT New Zealand. Such a lovely place, right? The people, so friendly. The grounds, so picturesque. The players, such good guys. Just don’t go there expecting any favours in Test cricket. Over the last six years, New Zealand have been ruthlessly efficient in home conditions, winning 10 series out of 12 and helping
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9:59 AM GMT Gary Stead has suggested New Zealand may look to “fight fire with fire” during the Test series against England. While Stead, the New Zealand coach, acknowledges that England have, in Jofra Archer, a “point of difference” fast bowler, he points out that his side have some good pace bowling options of their
8:37 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Somerset will start the 2020 County Championship season on minus 12 points after an ECB disciplinary panel ruled that the pitch prepared for their title decider against Essex at Taunton was ‘poor’. In a rain-affected game that Somerset had to win in order to overtake Essex, 21 wickets fell in
3:58 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff On the final day of the group stage, Maharashtra and Punjab (Group C), Delhi and Jharkhand (Group E) filled the last four spots for the Super League round of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20. They joined Karnataka and Baroda from Group A, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan from Group B, and
8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Queensland 6 for 226 (Khawaja 86*, Wildermuth 48) beat Tasmania 223 (Sandhu 51, Steketee 3-33, Bartlett 3-59) by four wickets Usman Khawaja‘s season of two halves continued as his unbeaten 86 led Queensland to a home Marsh Cup final with a four-wicket victory over Tasmania in Hobart. Khawaja, who has
12:52 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Steven Smith is wary of the threat that could be posed by Mohammad Abbas but is keen to push the stamina of Pakistan’s young quicks as he prepares to return to Test cricket on home soil. Abbas, who has 66 wickets at 18.86 from 14 matches, is set to take
8:00 AM GMT Tshwane Spartans 188 for 2 (Elgar 88*) beat Paarl Rocks 185 for 6 (Vince 86*, Morkel 2-24) by eight wickets Tshwane Spartans got their first win of this Mzansi Super League (MSL) with only the second successful chase of the tournament so far. After the Nelson Mandela Bay Stars eased to victory
8:00 AM GMT New Zealand A 302 for 6 dec and 169 for 8 (Phillips 36, Archer 3-34, Curran 3-42) drew with England 405 (Buttler 110, Pope 88, Denly 68, Kuggeleijn 3-46) England had to settle for a draw in Whangarei as a stubborn ninth-wicket partnership provided an example of some of the challenges likely
6:45 PM GMT Barny Read The toss is one of cricket’s many, many nuances. That one flip of the coin that, for club cricketers, goes a long way to determining the happiness of a weekend forfeited to chasing leather around a field. For the professionals, it has the potential to decide the outcome of a
8:00 AM GMT The Jozi Stars’ hopes of repeating last season’s events, when they lost three of their first four Mzansi Super League (MSL) matches but went on to win the competition, have been severely dented after they crumbled to a fourth successive defeat. The Stars were skittled out for 108 and went down to