Jun 20, 2018 Umar Farooq The owner of the Durban Qalandars franchise is weighting up legal options to challenge Cricket South Africa, accusing the board of abusing their franchise rights agreement. The Qalandars were in line to own a team in the inaugural T20 Global League last year but CSA at first postponed and then
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shares Suzie Bates pulls through midwicket © Getty Images New Zealand 216 for 1 (Bates 124*, Devine 73) beat South Africa 150 (van Niekerk 58) by 66 runsScorecard Less than 24 hours after England had scaled new heights in setting a men’s ODI record total of 481 for 6, New Zealand’s women picked up
5:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The first-ever Future Tours Programme featuring a World Test Championship and a ODI Qualification League has been released by the ICC’s Full Members, and will span a five-year period from 2018 to 2023. The nine top-ranked Test nations will slug it out for the Test Championship over two two-year cycles
11:51 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Eighteen-year-old batsman Jannatul Ferdus, who sat out all of Bangladesh’s historic Asia Cup campaign earlier this month, has been left out of the main squad for the upcoming tour of Ireland and the Women’s World T20 Qualifier. She is instead one of four stand-bys, alongside batting allrounder Lata Mondal, the
3:00 AM ET Australia won the toss and chose to bowl v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Australia have won the toss at Trent Bridge in an ODI they must win to keep the series alive. Defeat in any of the remaining games in the series will mean Australia have lost five ODI series in
8:06 AM ET George Dobell Ollie Rayner has joined Hampshire from Middlesex on a short-term loan deal. Hampshire are currently without leg-spinner Mason Crane (who has suffered a recurrence of back pain as he recovers from a stress fracture), off-spinner Brad Taylor (who has an ankle injury) and will shortly lose left-arm spinner, Liam Dawson,
12:23 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff He took a few wickets with pace. Then a few more with bounce. Even some with lateral movement. Shannon Gabriel was so good in St Lucia that he vaulted into the record books. Only once has a West Indian bowler struck more than the 13 times he did in a
3:00 AM ET Hampshire 348 for 9 (Vince 171, Northeast 58) beat Yorkshire 241 (Tattersall 89, Dawson 4-47) by 107 runsScorecard The fourth ball James Vince received in this match was pitched slightly short and would have passed a foot outside off stump had he not hit it between mid-off and extra cover for four.
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Two games gone, three to go. And England are on the brink of their second ODI series win against Australia in the space of six months. Leaving aside Australia’s well-documented absentees for one moment, victory at Trent Bridge would be further confirmation of England’s radical departure from their traditions in
11:06 PM ET Usman Khawaja was “extremely disappointed” there was no room for him in Australia’s limited-overs set-up despite unavailability of Steven Smith and David Warner, and has indicated that “training hard” will be a key to his return to the team’s white-ball ranks. Despite an outstanding recent record in domestic cricket and a handful