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
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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
1:15 AM ET Alex Malcolm Cricket Australia has knocked back Sydney Thunder’s appeal for maximum points in the Big Bash League match against Brisbane Heat at the Gabba that was declared a no-result following a major power outage. Thunder lodged a formal protest against the no result handed down last Thursday, a day after being
5:01 PM ET Shai Hope has said he considered qualifying to play for England while at school in the country. Hope made his Test debut for West Indies against England at Bridgetown in 2015, aged just 21. But just a couple of years before that, he acknowledged it crossed his mind to go the same
10:48 AM ET Liam Brickhill South Africa are wary of a resurgent Pakistan team that cruised to a five-wicket win in the first of five one-day internationals in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. “We know Pakistan is a good one-day outfit,” opener Reeza Hendricks, who contributed 45 to an opening stand of 82 in the first