1:16 PM ET Daryl Mitchell, the chairman of the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA), has warned that The Hundred, the ECB’s new format slated for introduction next year, needs to be a success or risk having “serious damaging effects for the counties”. Mitchell and David Leatherdale, the PCA chief executive, have also questioned suggestions in recent
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3:00 AM ET Alex Malcolm New South Wales 8 for 477 decl (Patterson 134, Nevill 101*, O’Connor 5-131) beat Western Australia 279 (Bancroft 138*, Whiteman 66, O’Keefe 4-78, Copeland 4-81) and 147 (Bancroft 86, O’Keefe 5-52) by an innings and 51 runs A five-wicket haul from Steve O’Keefe helped New South Wales to an innings
4:18 PM ET George Dobell in Grenada West Indies can cause a shock – and perhaps even win – the World Cup, according to the England and West Indies coaches. While West Indies’ recent record is not promising – they have not won a bilateral ODI series since 2014, have won only two of their
12:36 PM ET Ben Stokes has been forced out of the third ODI in Grenada with an ankle injury. Stokes, who heads England’s batting averages in the series and has also bowled more overs than anyone in the England side, is understood to have rolled his ankle while practising boundary catching on the eve of
5:26 AM ET Annesha Ghosh in Mumbai Mithali Raj has called for age-group world tournaments in women’s cricket, which would raise the profile of the sport and help develop cricketers. India’s ODI captain said that an age-group World Cup would act as a bridge between domestic and international cricket. “It will be important because every
7:36 PM ET Australia went from a feeling of “can’t believe we’ve stuffed this up” to utter relief during the closing stages of their win against India with Glenn Maxwell stressing the importance of holding their nerve to pinch a close win at the start of an away tour. Maxwell had been part of an
shares © Gallo Images/Getty Images Did playing on consistently difficult pitches at home sap South Africa’s top order of the confidence required to put Sri Lanka away? Coach Ottis Gibson, who has spearheaded the campaign to play on almost uniformly fast-and-bouncy pitches at home, thinks not. South Africa have publicly acknowledged that their new
3:00 AM ET Islamabad United 147 for 3 (Ronchi 67*, Samit Patel 45*, Imad 2-27) beat Karachi Kings 143 for 6 (Dunk 49*, Ameer Yamin 35*, Faheem 3-26) by seven wickets How the game played out Having gotten over their traditional slow start, Islamabad have begun cranking through the gears. A Luke Ronchi special –
3:05 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff ICC chairman Shashank Manohar has said that security would always remain a “top priority” for the global governing body of the sport, and that the BCCI would be shown the security plans put in place for the World Cup during an ICC meeting in March. Manohar’s comments came in the
7:22 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India knocked over. Pakistan brushed aside. What were the odds of Sri Lanka suffering the same fate? Very high. The fact that they’d been soundly thrashed in New Zealand and Australia leading into the tour made it that much more probable. However, South Africa failed to turn up, and their