3:00 AM ET Adelaide Strikers 4 for 175 (Ingram 75, Carey 59, Sams 2 for 24) beat Sydney Thunder 6 for 155 (Ferguson 47, Siddle 3-20) by 20 runs Peter Siddle‘s three-wicket haul and half-centuries from Alex Carey and Colin Ingram gave Adelaide Strikers their second win of the Big Bash League 2018-19, as they
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5:43 AM ET Mashrafe Mortaza has secured the Narail-2 seat in Bangladesh’s national elections, winning over 96% of the votes in his constituency. His result is part of Awami League’s landslide victory, their third consecutive win in the country’s general elections. He becomes the first active international cricketer to be a member of parliament in
3:26 AM ET Richard Pybus, West Indies’ high performance director, has agreed to take up the role of head coach full-time, replacing the interim coach Nic Pothas. Pybus’ contract, ESPNcricinfo understands, will effectively run until the 2019 Test series against India, which follows the ODI World Cup in England. The position of West Indies head
8:47 PM ET If it’s cliched to suggest that New Zealand are greater than the sum of their parts, and that their team spirit adds a dynamic dimension to their game, it’s because they keep providing examples of their cohesiveness. Take what captain Kane Williamson said was the key moment in New Zealand’s victory in
10:35 AM ET Danyal Rasool Pakistan batting coach Grant Flower admits he has “seen happier dressing rooms” than the one he finds himself in with the team right now. Speaking to ESPNcricinfo in the wake of Pakistan’s defeat inside three days at South Africa’s hands in Centurion, he also warned a lot of the players’
12:38 AM ET In the shadows of a defeat that left the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Indian hands, Australia’s captain Tim Paine made his bluntest admission that the national team is in dire need of Steven Smith and David Warner to return from their Newlands-scandal bans to fill the gaping hole they have left in the
3:00 AM ET New Zealand 178 (Southee 68, Lakmal 5-54) and 585 for 4 dec (Latham 176, Nicholls 162) beat Sri Lanka 104 (Mathews 33*, Boult 6-30) and 236 (Mendis 67, Chandimal 56, Wagner 4-48) by 423 runs New Zealand required only 14 deliveries to wipe out Sri Lanka’s tail and claim a 423-run victory
8:20 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The wife of Andrew Strauss, England’s former captain and managing director, has died aged 46 following a battle with lung cancer. “It is with great sadness and immense grief that we have to announce that Ruth passed away today as a result of her rare lung cancer,” read a statement
3:22 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando On the day in which 23-year-old Kusal Mendis became the youngest batsman since 2005 to score 1000 Test runs in a calendar year, he revealed he had been eyeing up the milestone for several months. Only four younger batsmen have ever managed a 1000-plus year, and three of them
shares The magic moment: Alastair Cook reaches his century © Getty Images Alastair Cook, the former England captain and his country’s leading Test run-scorer, is to receive a knighthood in the New Year’s honours list. Cook, who retired from Tests at the end of the summer, will become the first England cricketer to be