3:00 AM ET Lunch West Indies 289 and 237 for 6 (Holder 80*, Dowrich 61*) lead England 77 (Jennings 17, Roach 5-17) by 449 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Day two was a raucous beach party and, on day three, Jason Holder and Shane Dowrich resembled those most hardy of revellers, intent on hanging around
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11:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Bismah Maroof has been named Pakistan women’s captain for both the ODI and T20I series against West Indies women. The three-match T20I series will take place in Karachi from January 31 to February 3, and will mark the resumption of women’s international cricket in Pakistan since they hosted Bangladesh for
shares Umesh Yadav is congratulated after one of his wickets © KCA Vidarbha 208 (Fazal 75, Jaffer 34, Warrier 5-57, Thampi 3-64) beat Kerala 106 (Umesh 7-48, Gurbani 3-38) and 91 (Umesh 5-31, Thakur 4-28) by an innings and 11 runs Umesh Yadav took his best-ever match figures as Vidarbha stormed into the Ranji
shares James Anderson claimed his 27th five-wicket haul for England © Associated Press Innings break West Indies 289 (Hetmyer 81, Anderson 5-46, Stokes 4-59) v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details England quick James Anderson has claimed a record-equalling five-wicket haul to restrict West Indies to a total of 289 early on day two of the first
10:45 AM ET Liam Brickhill South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has said his team has forgiven Sarfraz Ahmed for his racially charged on-field taunt during the second ODI in Durban on Tuesday. “We forgive him because he said sorry,” du Plessis said after South Africa’s training session on Thursday. “He has apologised and taken
3:00 AM ET Toss Sri Lanka opt to bat v Australia Sri Lanka have won the toss and chosen to bat first in the day/night Test, despite the green tinge in evidence on the Gabba surface. Conditions are expected to be seam friendly in the first session, but captain Dinesh Chandimal perhaps expects his top
5:34 PM ET Roston Chase has warned England could face a tough challenge in the fourth innings of the Barbados Test on an “unpredictable” surface. While Chase admitted West Indies were not especially happy about their score at the end of day one, he believes England could struggle against his side’s pace attack on a
3:00 AM ET West Indies won the toss and chose to bat first against EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details West Indies won the toss and chose to bat on the opening day of the first Test against England in Barbados. England have selected three seamers and two spinners, meaning a resurgent Stuart Broad – who
3:00 AM ET Big Picture In case you’ve missed any of the memos from the ECB in recent months, 2019 is a moderately significant year for English cricket. The small matter of a home World Cup, closely followed by the Ashes, offers the sport a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to regain some of the relevance that it
11:09 AM ET Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Gautam Gambhir believes that the likes of MS Dhoni and Shikhar Dhawan should have been asked to play first-class cricket before joining the Indian team for the ODI series in Australia, so that they could have hit the ground running. He