5:31 PM ET Sarfaraz Ahmed‘s comments from the eve of the match, about putting up “600, 500 or 400”, had become social media fodder. But as is wont to happen depressingly often these days, the rest of his answer got lost in the jokes and memes. Sarfaraz wasn’t just saying that he hoped Pakistan scored
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© Getty Images Pakistan 315 for 9 (Imam 100, Babar 96, Mustafizur 5-75) beat Bangladesh 221 (Shakib 64, Shaheen Afridi 6-35) by 94 runs The ridiculous fantasies of engineering an improbable win aside, this was an excellent Pakistan performance, subduing a side that three weeks ago, most would have fancied to turn them over. It
3:30 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff He opened the batting, and scored an 18-ball 7. He bowled six overs and picked up a wicket. He strutted around the Headingley turf, mostly with a big smile on his face, and threw in as much drama as possible into pouching a sitter on the field and, if that
9:41 PM ET Australia A went through the one-day leg of their tour unbeaten, but now things get really interesting with the red ball coming into focus and places in the Ashes squad to play for. They face Sussex and England Lions over the next couple of weeks before the selection showdown between two Australia
3:00 AM ET West Indies 311 for 6 (Hope 77, Pooran 58, Lewis 58, Holder 45, Dawlat 2-73) beat Afghanistan 288 (Ikram 86, Rahmat 62, Brathwaite 4-63, Roach 3-37) by 23 runs As it happened Eighteen-year-old Ikram Alikhil came within three shots of becoming the first teenager to hit a World Cup century, and Rahmat
12:13 AM ET Cricket chiefs have implored the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) Trust not to abandon the ground’s natural wicket block and replace it with “unproven” drop-in pitches under pressure from the AFL. They believe such a move would run the risk of imposing “boring cricket” on spectators. This comes at a time when the
6:50 PM ET Mark Wood admitted he “got lucky” to dismiss Kane Williamson in freakish fashion in Durham. Williamson was well set and averaging over 100 in the tournament when Ross Taylor punched a delivery from Wood down the ground only to see the bowler stick a hand out and, in attempting to stop the
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 520 (Malan 199, Simpson 115) drew with Derbyshire 557 for 6 dec (du Plooy 118, Dal 92) and 178 for 6 dec (du Plooy 69*, Hosein 61) Derbyshire survived a last-day scare to deny Middlesex an improbable victory in their County Championship Division Two match at Derby. After
5:03 AM ET Middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu has communicated his decision to retire from all forms of cricket, two months after being controversially left out of India’s World Cup squad. “I would like to bring to your kind notice that I have come to decision to step away from the sport and retire from all
Jul 1, 2019 Bangladesh coach Steve Rhodes said that they are disappointed with their exit from the World Cup, but hoped that they would be remembered as the “people’s team” for the fight they have shown against top sides. In a must-win game to qualify for the semi-finals, they fell 29 runs short of India’s