3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ireland 152 for 4 (Lewis 50, Delany 46, Akter 1-20) beat Bangladesh 151 for 4 (Hoque 66*, Shamima 30, Delany 1-19) Ireland captain Isobel Joyce talks to the media AFP/Getty Images Sixteen straight losses across limited-overs cricket over the past two years. Heavy defeats against New Zealand in ODIs and T20Is.
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12:05 PM ET India arrived at Old Trafford early in the morning on a sunny Sunday in Manchester, for their first competitive training session two days out from the first of the three Twenty20s against England. Training sessions might never be the perfect lens to zoom in on who might make the XI or what
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff TossZimbabwe chose to bowl v Pakistan In the opening game of the tri-series, newly appointed Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza put Pakistan in on a surface that looked like it would improve as the game went on. Zimbabwe benched Chris Mpofu and Malcom Waller, but besides that, opted for experience in
6:34 PM ET Kent captain Sam Billings criticised the reception given to his predecessor, Sam Northeast, during the Royal London Cup final at Lord’s. Northeast, who left Kent in rather acrimonious circumstances during the off-season, was roundly jeered by Kent supporters as he walked to the crease and again when he reached his half-century. Northeast
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
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