1:56 AM ET Australia captain Aaron Finch has implored his men to do the hard things against India from the start of a summer in which the two teams will meet no fewer than 10 times across three formats, rejecting verbal confrontation as “the easy stuff” called out by the review that damned Cricket Australia’s
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3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Victoria 282 (White 63, Meredith 4-61) and 276 for 4 (Harris 67, Gotch 66*, Short 64*) beat Tasmania 81 (Tremain 5-13) and 476 (Wade 137, Doolan 94, Silk 90, Bird 50, Siddle 4-100) by six wickets Matthew Short and Seb Gotch produced an unbroken century stand to maintain Victoria’s unbeaten
10:46 PM ET Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft will serve the full term of the bans imposed upon them by Cricket Australia for their roles in the Newlands ball-tampering scandal after the board considered their sanctions in the wake of the release of the independent cultural review of the governing body. Meeting via
shares Joe Root made good use of the sweep shot © Getty Images A tweet from Sourav Ganguly to Parth Jindal, the co-owner of Delhi Daredevils, may have helped to revive Joe Root’s long-held ambition of picking up an IPL contract. Root, who went unsold in the 2018 IPL auction, made a brilliant 124
6:23 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Nic Pothas has been appointed West Indies’ interim head coach for the tour of Bangladesh following the end of Stuart Law’s stint. Law was named Middlesex coach in September and the recently concluded India tour was his final assignment having originally joined West Indies in early 2017. West Indies hoped
12:16 PM ET Danyal Rasool Kane Williamson has hailed the astonishing four-run win in Abu Dhabi as New Zealand’s “best in recent memory” and among the best in his career. Speaking just after New Zealand triggered a Pakistan collapse that saw the hosts lose their last six wickets for 24 runs to be bowled out
11:29 AM ET A day ahead of the draft for the fourth season of the Pakistan Super League, Lahore Qalandars have an envious conundrum to resolve: AB de Villiers or Steven Smith? Both Smith and de Villiers are likely to be the first two players to be snapped up, and with just two picks available
10:06 AM ET Danyal Rasool Despite all the decades of groundwork Pakistan have laid building a reputation of unpredictability, nothing could have prepared their fans for this. The post-lunch capitulation on Monday in a target of 176 – what is it with that number and Pakistan? – was so improbable, it caught even the ever-pessimistic
3:00 AM ET United States of America 162 for 5 (Malhotra 66*, Abhiraj 2-24) beat Singapore 161 (Dutta 30, Netravalkar 3-19) by five wickets Captain Saurabh Netravalkar reciprocates applause from team-mates after his three-for Peter Della Penna USA’s struggles to get past WCL Division Three finally came to an end on Monday at the Oman Cricket
3:00 AM ET West Indies 303 for 7 dec (Hope 88, Powell 72, Nayeem Hasan 2-104) drew with Bangladesh Cricket Board XI 232 for 5 (Soumya 78, Shadman 73, Gabriel 2-24) Shai Hope drives down the ground AFP Shai Hope, Kieran Powell and Soumya Sarkar struck fifties in the two-day practice match between West Indies and