7:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Western Australia 9 for 281 (Bancroft 76, Stoinis 45, Matthew Short 2-32) beat Victoria 8 for 165 (Handscomb 73*, Kelly 3-8, Stoinis 3-20) by nine runs (DLS method) Western Australia consolidated their position at the top of the table in the Marsh Cup with a 9-run win (DLS method) in
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7:00 AM GMT Alex Malcolm South Australia 7 for 296 (Ferguson 91, Carey 79, Lehmann 54*) beat Queensland 9 for 295 (Labuschagne 135, Agar 5-69) by three wickets A staggering cameo from legspinner Adam Zampa helped South Australia steal a three-wicket win over Queensland at the Gabba with just two balls to spare. Zampa walked
11:51 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Lockie Ferguson will make his return from injury for the New Zealand XI in England’s warm-up matches ahead of their T20I series. Ferguson suffered a fractured thumb at the start of the tour of Sri Lanka in August and the two practice matches at Lincoln on October 27 and 29
4:23 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff FICA, the international cricketers’ association, has lent its support to the striking Bangladeshi cricketers while hitting out at the role of the Bangladesh players body FICA itself counts as a member for over a decade. Tony Irish, FICA’s executive chairman, criticised the Cricketers Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) – which,
Play 04:32 Faf du Plessis will continue to captain South Africa despite overseeing one of their worst Test results since readmission – he sees it as his responsibility to ease them through the transition. South Africa last suffered successive innings defeats in Tests in 1935-36, and though they have been whitewashed by Australia twice since
11:02 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood are set for their first action since the Ashes after they were named in the New South Wales squad for the Marsh Cup match against Tasmania on Wednesday. The pair have been kept on ice since the end of the series in England. Cummins played
7:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Ireland 183 for 3 (Gareth 89*, O’Brien 41, Khawar 1-28) beat Oman 148 for 9 (Khawar 50, Dockrell 2-24, Adair 2-26) by 35 runs The tussle for the top of the table standing in Group B of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier tightened as Ireland completed a comfortable
7:21 AM GMT Bangladesh’s cricketers have called a spontaneous – and unprecedented – press conference on Monday afternoon, with sources suggesting they could go on strike and even cast a shadow over next month’s tour of India. The development follows simmering discontent among the players over how cricket is run in the country. The trigger
8:03 PM GMT There were big-name omissions, surprise picks and several bumper paydays for local players as the draft for the Hundred took place in London. Rashid Khan, the Afghanistan legspinner, was the first name selected in what is a ground-breaking exercise in British sport, while Chris Gayle and Lasith Malinga were among the top-bracket
2:36 PM GMT Hemant Brar in Bengaluru Dhruv Shorey‘s career has been full of paradoxes. When he plays first-class cricket, his attractive strokeplay makes you think he will be better suited for 50-over cricket. When he bats in one-dayers, you wonder he’s probably going a tad slower. A List-A strike rate of 73 backs that