11:57 AM ET Liam Brickhill Throughout his career, Hamilton Masakadza has complemented his brawny batting on the pitch by being a calm, amiable presence off it amid sometimes tempestuous times for Zimbabwe. Considering the ongoing brouhaha between the board and the absence of Zimbabwe’s senior core of players, his first press conference since being named
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shares © Getty Images Spanish lessons, yoga and a host of community work have all been part of the path taken by Cameron Bancroft since the Newlands ball-tampering scandal. The Australia batsman has been looking to seek the sort of perspective and self-knowledge that will prevent him from following the kind of instructions issued
6:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes has been recalled to England’s 14-man squad for the three-match ODI series against India, having recovered from the hamstring tear that ruled him out of the second Test against Pakistan in May, as well as the subsequent limited-overs fixtures against Scotland and Australia. The ODI leg of India’s
4:28 AM ET Jon Culley Reece Topley is desperately hoping his four wickets for England Lions at Northampton on Thursday will be enough to clinch his place in the Hampshire line-up against Kent in the final of the Royal London One-Day Cup on Saturday so he can avoid the same disappointing memories of Lord’s finals
A renewed Steven Smith has reflected on how mental fatigue led him to making “horrible decisions” in the aftermath of last summer’s Ashes series, culminating in the Newlands ball-tampering scandal that saw him banned from the game for a year. On his return to competitive cricket in Global T20 Canada, Smith said he had been
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Nottinghamshire 499 for 9 dec (Nash 139, Libby 88, Patel 76, Wessels 75*) and 249 for 4 dec (Libby 100*, Patel 71, Wessels 57) drew with Worcestershire 287 (Whiteley 76, Gurney 4-97) and 368 for 8 (Clarke 177*) Scorecard Joe Clarke‘s third century of the season heroically salvaged a
3:00 AM ET Big picture There were two particular things in evidence in the first T20I. The more obvious of them was India’s complete difference in class to their opponents Ireland. At no point, other than when catches were being dropped in both innings, did the match come close to being a contest. The second
1:39 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Darren Sammy has asked the media to move on from the Newlands ball-tampering controversy and get off Steven Smith‘s back. Sammy is set to captain Smith on Thursday night, when they team up for Toronto Nationals against Vancouver Knights in the inaugural match of Global T20 Canada. Deposed Australia captain
Surrey 267 (Pope 69*, Burns 59, Coad 5-53) and 89 for 0 (Burns 55*, Stoneman 32*) require a further 139 runs to beat Yorkshire 342 (Tattersall 70, Bresnan 54, Dernbach 4-104) and 152 (Morkel 5-39)Scorecard “Roll up, roll up, roll up and see the Mighty Morkel! He’s 6ft 5ins tall, he bowls at 85mph, he
3:00 AM ET Toss Ireland chose to bowl v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Suresh Raina taps the ball down the ground BCCI Ireland captain Gary Wilson elected to bowl in sunny conditions in Malahide and said that his team’s focus would be on their own game rather than India’s strengths. Ireland came into the match