3:00 AM ET Toss India chose to bowl v Australia India’s captain Virat Kohli won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in the second Twenty20 at the MCG. India must win the match to stay in the series. The hosts made one change to the team that won narrowly in Brisbane on Wednesday,
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2:04 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff After enjoying an unbeaten run in the group stage of the Women’s World T20 in Guyana, India’s batsmen collapsed spectacularly against England in their semi-final in North Sound and exited the tournament. An attacking approach – amplified by captain Harmanpreet Kaur‘s blistering hundred in the tournament opener – had served
3:00 AM ET England 116 for 2 (Jones 53*, Sciver 52*) beat India 112 (Mandhana 34, Rodrigues 26, Knight 3-9, Gordon 2-20, Ecclestone 2-22) by eight wickets Nat Sciver muscles a shot during her half-century Getty Images Eight wickets in hand, 17 balls remaining. Margins of victory can occasionally mislead, but this wasn’t one of those
11:32 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia women are hoping to heal the scars of their recent near-misses at global tournaments after convincingly overcoming defending champions West Indies to reach the World T20 final. The hosts were overwhelmed in North Sound, bowled out for 71 in reply to Australia’s 142 for 5, which was built on
3:00 AM ET Australia 142 for 5 (Healy 46, Lanning 31, Haynes 25*) beat West Indies 71 (Taylor 16, Perry 2-2, Gardner 2-15, Kimmince 2-17) by 71 runs Ellyse Perry celebrates a wicket with her teammates IDI via Getty Images Australia vaulted into their fifth final, giving themselves a shot at a fourth title with a
11:54 AM ET England’s World Cup-winning cricketers go into their crucial World T20 semi-final against India tonight with further uncertainty hanging over the women’s game, after the ECB confirmed that cuts are envisaged to the Kia Super League budget, as part of a wider effort to cut costs across the game. The tournament’s future had
1:30 PM 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 Oman Cricket has reached an agreement in principle to host Ireland,
1:52 PM ET Barny Read Having been on the wrong end of two brutal batting displays on night one, bowlers were in desperate need of a hero on the T10 League’s second day. There were some encouraging performances from the first two matches, but the assault handed out by Mohammad Shahzad stuck in the memory
9:53 AM ET Left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican credited his team-mate Shannon Gabriel for bringing West Indies back into the game on the first day in Chattogram after Bangladesh had reached a “commanding” position earlier. The hosts were cruising on 222 for 3 after opting to bat, but Gabriel’s third spell broke the back of Bangladesh’s
6:04 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Joe Root insists that England need to savour the experience and expertise of Stuart Broad and James Anderson for as long as they can, despite both of his senior seam bowlers enduring frustrating series in an otherwise triumphant tour of Sri Lanka. Broad is set to make his first appearance