9:34 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Somerset have confirmed the return of Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali for the whole of the 2019 season. Azhar, 33, will be available to play a full part in the Specsavers Championship and the Royal London Cup. Azhar is currently Pakistan’s leading active Test run-scorer, but he retired earlier this month
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shares Mashrafe Mortaza finds a reason to smile in a press interaction © AFP Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Mortaza is set to contest the country’s 11th parliamentary election, after he received confirmation of his nomination from the ruling Awami League. He will be contesting in the Narail-2 constituency, his home district, with the polls
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 159 for 2 (Samarth 50*) drew with New Zealand A 303 for 7 dec (Young 123, Van Woerkom 54, Siraj 4-59) A severely rain-affected game fizzled out to a draw in Hamilton with only one of the four possible innings coming to completion – and that too because
11:45 PM ET Aaron Finch is set to bat No. 3 for Victoria behind Marcus Harris and Travis Dean in what appears a compromise between his likely opening role for Australia in the looming Test series against India and the state team’s clear desire to avoid breaking up their own settled combination at the top
3:00 AM ET Paarl Rocks 144 for 5 (du Plessis 54, van Jaarsveld 32, Steyn 2-21) beat Cape Town Blitz 140 (de Kock 31, Fortuin 4-15, Paterson 3-23) by five wickets Bjorn Fortuin‘s four-wicket haul and Faf du Plessis‘ half-century helped Paarl Rocks register their first win of the Mzansi Super League. Their victory also
11:32 AM ET Danyal Rasool For a man with a supposed inaptitude to Test cricket, Babar Azam does end up with an awful lot of big scores in the format. In his last four Test innings, the 24-year old has managed 92, 62, 13 and an unbeaten 127 on Sunday. It was his fifth 50-plus
11:20 AM ET It is possible the no-balls were the result of straining too hard for wickets. That was the only explanation Sri Lanka spin-bowling coach Piyal Wijetunge could offer for the events on the third morning in Colombo, when left-arm spinner Lakshan Sandakan had Ben Stokes caught at cover on 22, then at slip
10:38 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya Sri Lanka Cricket has named an all-new selection committee headed by former Sri Lanka fast bowler Ashantha De Mel, a move which comes just six months from the World Cup. Alongside De Mel, the committee comprises three other former national players in Brendon Kuruppu, Hemantha Wickramaratne and Chaminda Mendis. De
10:03 AM ET Mark Robinson, England women’s coach, admitted the team felt they had been “playing catch-up” throughout the Women’s World T20, due to rain affecting the early part of their tournament, as a rusty batting line-up failed to fire in the final against Australia. Despite an eight-wicket defeat ending their hopes of adding the
Nov 24, 2018 Jos Buttler credited a TV re-run of a Michael Clarke masterclass as the inspiration behind his much-changed batting approach on the third day in Colombo, as he switched from the use of the sweep to the use of nimble footwork to combat Sri Lanka’s spinners during another vital, momentum-seizing half-century. After arriving