shares Play 00:56 A bad day in the field cost us – Morgan With first-match nerves out of the way, Mark Wood is ready to play his part in England’s World Cup bounce-back effort starting with Saturday’s match against Bangladesh. Wood does not expect to necessarily keep his place in the team, despite taking
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3:37 AM ET Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo Aaron Finch expects an aggressive onslaught from West Indies – with both bat and ball – when the two sides meet at Trent Bridge on Thursday. Both teams enter the match off the back of seven-wicket wins in their opening World Cup
5:40 PM ET Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean. As the Australians arrived for their first training session at Trent Bridge, the head-banging guitar riff and grinding lyrics of ACDC’s You Shook Me All Night Long bellowed from the speaker on
12:47 PM ET “There are a lot of things haunting me at the moment,” laughs Faf du Plessis, on the eve of an important match against India. “The position that I’m in is, I’m the captain of the team right now and players are looking for someone to lead them. So all I can do
3:00 AM ET Yorkshire 289 for 6 (Lyth 95, Kohler-Cadmore 83) v Essex This is where it’s at, baby: Yorkshire and Essex duking it for supremacy. Not quite how Sir Neville Cardus would have put it, admittedly, but when the World Cup is in full flow, and England are involved in a troubled run chase,
8:18 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Burgeoning allrounder Sophie Molineux has not recovered from shoulder surgery in time to be named in Australia’s women’s Ashes squad to tour England this year, though she has been offered an indirect path back to selection via the Australia A group who will be touring in parallel with the senior
11:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Five Test matches, three against South Africa and two against Bangladesh, will be the highlight of a packed home season for the Indian team – the top-ranked Test team – one in which they will host five teams. The season kicks off with South Africa’s tour in September-October 2019, in
shares Welcome to ESPNcricinfo’s live coverage of the match between England and Pakistan at Trent Bridge, we will keep you up to speed with all the relevant stats, graphics and chat as the day unfolds. (Don’t worry, we still have regular ball-by-ball commentary, too.) If the blog doesn’t appear, please refresh the page. Alan
shares Play 00:57 Morkel: SA looked flat and sloppy in the field Bangladesh 330 for 6 (Mushfiqur 78, Shakib 75, Phehlukwayo 2-52) beat South Africa 309 for 8 (du Plessis 62, Mustafizur 3-67) by 21 runs These teams seem to bring out extremes in one another. In previous World Cups, that has meant one-sided
12:41 PM ET If there was any danger that England might allow a touch of complacency to creep over them before their match against Pakistan, a quick glance at the record books should set them straight. Yes, Pakistan have lost 11 ODIs in a row. And yes, England are unbeaten in a bilateral ODI series