3:00 AM ET Valkerie Baynes West Indies won the toss and elected to bat v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Whether the teams like to admit it or not, eyes are already on the World Cup, where No.1 team England are favourites, while No.9-ranked West Indies have not won a bilateral one-day series in 11
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11:08 AM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna Coming into last week’s Oman T20I Quadrangular series, Ireland were winless
shares Irfan Ansari, the Sharjah-based cricket coach who Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed had reported for making an approach with a view to engaging him in corruption, has been banned from all cricket-related activity for ten years. Sarfaraz had reported the approach – made during Pakistan’s series against Sri Lanka in the UAE in late
shares Rubel Hossain celebrates Rovman Powell’s wicket © Getty Images Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza decided to field first against New Zealand in the third ODI at the University Oval in Dunedin. The visitors have brought in Rubel Hossain to replace the injured Mohammad Mithun, who is out for at least ten days with a
11:08 AM ET The ICC and the 2019 World Cup organising committee remain confident that the tournament’s biggest match, to be played between India and Pakistan on June 16 in Manchester, will go ahead despite the volatile situation between the two countries in the wake of a terrorist attack in Kashmir last week. With the
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Scotland 26 for no loss (Coetzer 16*, Cross 10*) beat Oman 24 all out (Khawar 15, Smith 4-7, Neill 4-7) by ten wickets Oman slumped to the fourth-lowest List-A score in cricket history, after they were bowled out by Scotland for only 24 runs in Al Amarat. Playing the first
1:00 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Adil Rashid has returned to the Caribbean ready to put a disappointing experience in the Barbados Test behind him and start focusing on England’s “exciting” white-ball challenge over the coming months. Rashid flew home between the first and second Tests to attend the birth of his second child, spending ten
10:58 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya Spinner Akila Dananjaya has had his bowling action cleared by the ICC and has been included in Sri Lanka’s squad for the five-ODI series in South Africa. Dananjaya’s action had been reported during England’s tour of Sri Lanka late last year. He was then officially banned from bowling in international
shares © PCB/PSL Peshawar Zalmi 81 for 3 (Amin 61*) beat Lahore Qalandars 78 (Hasan Ali 4-15, Wahab 3-17) by seven wickets How the game played out Hasan Ali ripped through Lahore Qalandars’ much-vaunted top order, while fellow quick Wahab Riaz tore through the tail to dismiss the PSL’s most beleaguered franchise for 78,
3:00 AM ET England 371 for 7 (Roy 110, Root 114) beat UWI Vice Chancellor’s XI 200 (Kirton 37, Rashid 2-21) by 171 runs 371 for 7 (50.0 overs) 200 all out (43.5 overs If England required any extra inspiration ahead of what could be a momentous summer, the sight of three true greats of