3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ireland v Afghanistan, match abandoned Heavy overnight rain and a wet outfield forced the abandonment of the third T20I between Ireland and Afghanistan in Bready, without a ball being bowled. The match referee called off the game at 15.45 local time, 15 minutes after the scheduled toss time. With Afghanistan
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4:46 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India captain Virat Kohli moved back to the top of the ICC Test rankings for batsmen after his Man of the Match performance in Trent Bridge. He has amassed a career-best 937 rating points and is one point shy of breaking into the top 10 batsmen in rankings history. Donald
3:00 AM ET Lancashire 134 for 4 (Jennings 46) beat Kent 133 for 9 (Billings 37, Parkinson 3-27) by six wicketsScorecard Only one score lower than Kent’s 133 had ever been successfully defended in a T20 tie at Canterbury, but the overwrought faces on the Lancashire bench were a reminder that nothing would be automatic
12:20 PM ET The Committee of Administrators (CoA) has taken full control of the BCCI. All the sub-committees of the BCCI except the selection panels and the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) have been annulled. The powers of the three office-bearers of the BCCI – CK Khanna (acting president), Amitabh Choudhary (acting secretary) and Anirudh Chaudhry
3:46 AM 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 West Indies are planning to host India in Florida next July,
3:00 AM ET Afghanistan 160 for 8 (Zazai 82, Chase 3-35) beat Ireland 79 (Porterfield 33, Rashid 4-17, Mujeeb 3-17) by 81 runs A second consecutive fifty from Hazratullah Zazai helped the visitors mirror their total of 160 from the first match, before Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Rashid Khan broke the back of Ireland’s chase
11:55 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Batsmen Prithvi Shaw and Hanuma Vihari have been called up to India’s Test squad for the final two matches in England. Opening batsman M Vijay, who was out for a pair at Lord’s and then dropped from the XI at Trent Bridge, and left-arm wristspinner Kuldeep Yadav, whose selection in
12:53 AM ET Pay-television network SuperSport has pulled out of their equity partnership with Cricket South Africa for a new 20-over league, leaving the organisation without an outside shareholder for the tournament. In a statement released on Tuesday night, SuperSport claimed the discussions for an agreement terminated on July 23, more than four weeks before
3:00 AM ET Matt Roller at Taunton Essex 191 (ten Doeschate 73, J Overton 3-40) and 147 for 1 (Browne 75*) need 189 more runs to beat Somerset 324 (Trescothick 95, Abell 70, Siddle 5-80) and 202 (Harmer 4-69) by 165 runsScorecard It is no exaggeration to say that the final innings of this game
shares © Getty Images The BCCI has registered its new constitution with the Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies in Chennai on August 21, following the Supreme Court order on August 9. The new constitution had some key tweaks from the one originally proposed by the Lodha Committee, including setting aside the one-state one-vote policy