3:00 AM ET Umar Farooq in Karachi Big Picture Pakistan has moved on from the narrative of cricket coming home, now that cricket has begun to trickle back to Pakistan for the last three years. The story is larger than that this time. Pakistan’s appetite for international cricket has begun to increase over the past
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3:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Following Australia’s stunning 3-2 win in the ODI series in India, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting feels Steven Smith and David Warner now have to show that they remain among the best players available by making a mark in the upcoming IPL. The banned duo have been briefly reunited with
3:00 AM ET Match abandoned USA 152 for 7 (Taylor 72, Malhotra 28, Zahoor 2-30) v UAE 29 for 2 (Jessy Singh 2-18) Nine balls short of making it an official match and well ahead of Duckworth-Lewis for the five-over mark, USA were denied victory on their T20I debut as persistent rains that had already
11:12 AM ET Liam Brickhill Four-and-a-half months of recovery from a shoulder injury cut short JP Duminy‘s involvement with South Africa this season, but it also gave him the chance to reflect and gain some perspective. Duminy turns 35 in a month, and he has indicated that his desire to spend more time with his
shares Tamim Iqbal plays a drive © Getty Images The Bangladesh team escaped from their bus after it had gone to a mosque near the Hagley Oval where police are responding to reports of shots fired in central Christchurch. Bangladesh team escaped from a mosque near Hagley Park where there were active shooters. They
3:48 PM ET On Friday, USA will become the 28th country to play a men’s T20I when they take on UAE at the ICC Academy in Dubai. Coming from a place where T20 has been touted as the only possible gateway to crack the broader domestic sports market, the build-up has been low-key for what
9:48 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya Sri Lanka Cricket is once again moving to remove a head coach, with CEO Ashley de Silva headed to South Africa for crisis talks with Chandika Hathurusingha. An SLC release also confirmed that Hathurusingha will be required to return to Sri Lanka following the ongoing ODI series in order to
3:00 AM ET Big Picture This is the first time these two sides play each other in Tests, but in many ways, this could become the most likely fixture going forward in the format. When, in an act of surprising munificence for a governing body that famously prefers its club as exclusive as possible, the
3:00 AM ET Quetta Gladiators 186 for 6 (Watson 71, Ahsan 46, Wahab 2-26) beat Peshawar Zalmi 176 for 7 (Sammy 46, Pollard 44, Hasnain 2-28) by ten runs How the game played out There was to be no one-run win for the fourth year in a row between these two hugely successful PSL sides,
10:18 AM ET Regardless of the outcome of the Ashes series between England and Australia later this year, the urn itself will travel down under for only the third time since its creation, as part of an exhibition at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne next summer. Having previously toured Australia in 1988 and