6:54 AM ET Keaton Jennings believes the second Test at Pallekele is “set up for a bit of a thriller” after a gripping fourth day was brought to an early close by rain with the match very much in the balance. By the close, Sri Lanka needed another 75 runs to square the series with
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6:32 AM ET The UAE T10 franchise Karchians is working out a new team name after a court in Pakistan ordered against using the word “Karachians” or anything “phonetically deceptive or resembling name”. The Karachians is one of the eight franchises in the tournament, which is due to begin on November 21 and apparently draws
3:00 AM ET Lunch Pakistan 144 for 4 (Shafiq 25*, Babar 24*, Boult 2-29) trail New Zealand 153 by nine runs Azhar Ali slices one towards point AFP Pakistan came out of Saturday’s first session in an awfully better situation than the run of play might have suggested. New Zealand’s bowlers were in charge over large
3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 336 and 93 for 3 (Karunaratne 54*, Mathews 28*) need a further 208 runs to beat England 290 and 346 (Root 123, Foakes 65*, Burns 59, Dananjaya 6-115)Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Jack Leach uprooted three Sri Lanka wickets in the space of 14 runs, but the second Dimuth Karunaratne
Anya Shrubsole said she’s “not sure” how she got her hat-trick at Gros Islet and instead turned the spotlight on her team-mate Natalie Sciver, as the duo played key roles in bowling South Africa out for 85 and knocking them out of the Women’s World T20 Shrubsole, Player of the Final at last year’s World
3:00 AM ET New South Wales 279 & 0-33 (Larkin 20*, Hughes 12*) lead Queensland 260 (Neser 62, Labuschagne 52, Lyon 4-83) by 52 runs Mark Steketee celebrates a wicket with his teammates Getty Images A four-wicket haul from New South Wales spinner Nathan Lyon was overshadowed by a stunning rear-guard from Queensland duo Michael Neser
3:00 AM ET West Indies women 187 for 5 (Matthews 62, Dottin 49) beat Sri Lanka women 104 ( Atapattu 44, Matthews 3-16) by 83 runs Hayley Matthews unfurls a cover drive Getty Images Sri Lanka were caned by Hayley Matthews, first with the bat the start of the match, and then with the ball at
shares © Peter Della Penna USA v Oman A century from Aqib Ilyas steered Oman through a tense chase before the tail took Oman past USA with three balls to spare, the win securing promotion to WCL Division Two in Namibia next April. Coming into the match, USA had won all three matches after
3:00 AM ET Tea England 285 and 259 for 6 (Root 98*, Foakes 194*) lead Sri Lanka 336 (Silva 85, Karunaratne 63, de Silva 59) by 213 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Joe Root’s century took England’s lead above 200 on the third day in Pallekele. Root has spoken often of his desire for his
12:01 PM ET Crucial half-centuries from captain Chetan Suryawanshi and Manpreet Singh rescued Singapore from an early hole to take them to 204, which was easily defended in a rousing 63-run win over Uganda. Uganda won the toss and sent Singapore in as Frank Nsubuga again heaped pressure on the opposition bowling offspin with the