shares Joe Root practises his sweeping in the nets © Getty Images Over the last three years, the ODI side that has fared the best against spin is India. That is pretty much as expected. What may be a little more of a surprise – though perhaps not any more – is that England
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10:08 AM ET There are more rumblings against the SG ball with Umesh Yadav joining R Ashwin and the captain Virat Kohli in complaining that it goes soft too early and gives them little chance of taking wickets. After West Indies moved from from 113 for 5 to 295 for 7 at stumps, Umesh was
3:00 AM ET West Indies 86 for 3 (Hetmeyer 10*, Ashwin 1-7) v India play 3:14 The Match Day team discusses West Indies playing XI for the second Test against India Despite losing the toss, despite losing their debutant fast bowler to injury, and with the other fast bowler struggling for rhythm, with hardly any
3:02 PM ET Daniel Brettig in Dubai Upon completing his batting masterpiece, the second-longest fourth innings in the history of all Tests, Usman Khawaja declared it proof that he was as hard a worker as anyone, having fought perceptions of laziness and weakness in Asian conditions over the course of an Australian career that began
shares Australia 202 and 215 for 3 (Khawaja 82*, Finch 70*) need another 246 runs to beat Pakistan 482 and 181 for 6 dec © AFP For the first time in the match, the script Pakistan appear to have templated every time they play in the UAE isn’t quite going according to plan. On
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl against EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Sri Lanka the toss and chose to bowl in the first ODI of the series in Dambulla, with newly instated captain Dinesh Chandimal hoping for some assistance against the No. 1-ranked side from a “little bit of
3:00 AM ET Nepal 29 for 0 (Bhandari 24*) beat China 26 (Lamichhane 3-4, Regmi 3-5) by ten wicketsScorecard China has long been described as a dormant superpower, but where cricket is concerned, it is clearly still in the deepest of slumbers. It took their next-door neighbours Nepal just 1.5 overs to hunt down a
8:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies women have called up the uncapped 20-year old Sheneta Grimmond from Guyana for their title defence at the Women’s World T20 that begins at home in November. However, they retained the bulk of the squad that lifted the trophy in 2016, naming 11 of them in a 15-member
10:49 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Dubai Australia’s coach Justin Langer took his team’s left-handed batsmen – Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Travis Head and Matt Renshaw – to the middle of the Dubai International Stadium for a debrief and discussion on how to handle a spinning pitch after the touring team were flattened by the
3:00 AM ET South Africa opt to bat v Zimbabwe Faf du Plessis goes for a catch AFP South Africa’s white-ball experiment continued as they picked two debutants for the first of three T20Is against Zimbabwe. Gihahn Cloete will be the first of the two international rookies to take the field when he opens the batting,