11:15 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff It’s been four years since the Australian women’s team had won a world title, and they came into the final of the World T20 in 2018 with bad memories, with West Indies beating the crown off them in 2016. Things didn’t go to plan at the start of this title
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3:00 AM ET Australia 106 for 2 (Gardner 33*, Lanning 28*) beat England 105 (Wyatt 43, Knight 25, Gardner 3-22, Wareham 2-11) by eight wickets Megan Schutt is ecstatic after dismissing Tammy Beaumont ICC/Getty Australia have never lost to England in a cup final, and that record will now stay at least till the next world
3:00 AM ET Cape Town Blitz 198 for 5 (de Kock 74, Malan 66, Olivier 3-40) beat Jozi Stars 136 (Vilas 29, Linde 3-25, Nortje 3-30) by 62 runs Quinton de Kock sets off for a run Associated Press Cape Town Blitz extended their unbeaten run in the Mzansi Super League with a ruthless 62-run win
2:24 PM ET Barney Read Momentum has been a word bandied about the halls of Sharjah Cricket Stadium the past four days. Freely waved with the same gusto as the batsmen’s hands flying through and across the line of the ball. Talk has centred on the virtues of hitting your stride early and turning the
1:30 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The controversial omission of Mithali Raj in India’s semi-final clash against England in the Women’s World T20 has prompted the BCCI’s Committee of Administrators (CoA) to ask for her fitness logs during the tournament. The CoA was also strongly concerned by the fact that minutes of the selection meeting before
11:59 PM ET And then there were two. After 22 matches in three countries, England and Australia are the last teams standing. This wouldn’t surprise anyone who looked at the rankings; Australia are the No. 1 team in the world. Neither would it surprise anyone who referred to the results at the most recent ICC
9:48 AM ET Sure Ben Stokes and Adil Rashid were bowling aggressively either side of tea, but did Sri Lanka’s batsmen really have to play the attacking shots they did? Could they not have hunkered down, left the deliveries that weren’t on target, and seen out that testing passage of play? If you are wondering
9:22 AM ET Liam Brickhill Langton Rusere will make history on Saturday when he becomes the first Zimbabwean umpire to stand in the final of a major global cricket tournament. Rusere has been named as one of the on-field umpires for the Women’s World T20 final between Australia and England to be played at the
3:00 AM ET Toss Pakistan chose to bat v New Zealand Azhar Ali plays a reverse sweep AFP Pakistan elected to bat first in Dubai after winning the toss. On a cool morning, Sarfraz Ahmed said the pitch was ripe for setting up the game with a handy first innings total, insisting the team had put
Nov 22, 2018 Big Picture Football didn’t bring it home for England, but cricket well might. And that may happen before their football manager Gareth Southgate’s waistcoat-inspired Christmas jumper becomes a nationwide rage. England’s entry into the first-ever standalone Women’s World T20 final came about in a manner similar to that of the other finalist