6:07 PM ET Melinda FarrellCricinfo Graeme Swann has called on Moeen Ali to cast aside any self-doubt and take charge of England’s campaign against an “out-of-sorts” Sri Lanka next month. While Moeen has been a consistent presence in England’s ODI side this year, he was dropped from the Test side during the New Zealand tour
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3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Hampshire 187 and 65 for 3 trail Lancashire 273 (Jones 68, Edwards 4-78) by 21 runsScorecard Lancashire have been relegated to Specsavers County Championship Division Two after they failed to secure a third batting bonus point against Hampshire. Lancashire needed to reach a minimum of 300 and beat Hampshire,
3:00 AM ET Warwickshire 148 for 0 (Rhodes 102*) trail Kent 167 (Wright 3-29) by 19 runsScorecard The sides may have come into this game level on points, but by stumps at the end of day one it appeared there was a chasm between them. Warwickshire, with all 10 first-innings wickets in hand, trialled by
3:00 AM ET Big picture It’s been a while since India have played Afghanistan in a limited-overs game. Their last meeting was also at an Asia Cup, in 2014. It was long before Afghanistan had so much as given a hint that they would transform into the exciting force they are these days. India won
1:29 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Angelo Mathews has expressed strong resentment at being made a “scapegoat for the dismal performances … at the Asia Cup”, after he was sacked as captain on Sunday. In a letter to SCL, he has even floated the idea of retiring from ODI and T20 cricket. On Friday, Mathews
3:44 PM ET Shashank KishoreESPN Ehsan Mani, the new PCB chairman, wants to remain open to talks with the BCCI, even as both boards are set to face off soon in an ICC hearing in Dubai. A dispute-resolution panel set up by the ICC will hear Pakistan’s compensation claim of US$ 70 million against India
3:00 AM ET Toss Bangladesh chose to bat v Afghanistan play 2:10 The Match Day team look ahead to Afghanistan and Bangladesh’s Super Four clash, with both sides fighting to stay alive in the Asia Cup Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza decided to bat in their Super Four clash against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi. They handed
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies women 292 for 5 (Matthews 117, Dottin 59, Kapp 4-55) beat South Africa women 177 (van Niekerk 77, Wovaardt 54, Dottin 4-36) by 115 runs Hayley Matthews poses with the Player-of-the-Match trophy WICB Media After a duck in the first ODI and a washed-out second ODI, Hayley Matthews returned
4:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff David Warner and Steven Smith, who had been banned from playing international and domestic cricket for 12 months by Cricket Australia for their roles in the Newlands ball-tampering incident, marked their returns to grade cricket in Sydney with a 98-ball hundred and a 92-ball 85 respectively on Saturday. Warner, turning
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Is there a point to hyping up an India-Pakistan contest again after the damp squib on Wednesday? After all, the last four games between these sides have turned out to be an eight-wicket win, a 180-run win, a 124-run win and a 76-run win. The build-up to all of those