3:00 AM ET Toss Australia chose to bowl v South Africa The start of the first international cricket match ever hosted on the Gold Coast was delayed by an hour and 50 minutes due to heavy downpour that turned the T20I into a 10 overs-a-side affair. The Powerplays were reduced to three overs and the
7:40 AM ET A week after coach Chandika Hathurusingha praised the progress Angelo Mathews had made on his fitness and attitude since being axed from the ODI team, Mathews has claimed that his preparation for the ongoing Tests, in which he has now hit three half-centuries in four innings, was no different than usual. Essentially,
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand A 176 for 1 (Rutherford 106*, Young 49) trail India A 467 for 8 dec (Parthiv 94, Vihari 86, Shankar 62, Tickner 4-80) by 291 runs Hamish Rutherford punches down the ground Getty Images The lower-order trio of Parthiv Patel, Vijay Shankar and K Gowtham propelled India A to
6:54 AM ET Keaton Jennings believes the second Test at Pallekele is “set up for a bit of a thriller” after a gripping fourth day was brought to an early close by rain with the match very much in the balance. By the close, Sri Lanka needed another 75 runs to square the series with
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Shaka Hislop sifts through all the latest transfer rumours surrounding Miguel Almiron, Aaron Ramsey, Christian Pulisic and many more in Transfer Rater. With the winter window opening soon, the rumour mill is beginning to gather pace. Who will be moving where come January? Transfer Talk has the latest. TOP STORY: Man City to offer Isco
6:32 AM ET The UAE T10 franchise Karchians is working out a new team name after a court in Pakistan ordered against using the word “Karachians” or anything “phonetically deceptive or resembling name”. The Karachians is one of the eight franchises in the tournament, which is due to begin on November 21 and apparently draws
3:00 AM ET Lunch Pakistan 144 for 4 (Shafiq 25*, Babar 24*, Boult 2-29) trail New Zealand 153 by nine runs Azhar Ali slices one towards point AFP Pakistan came out of Saturday’s first session in an awfully better situation than the run of play might have suggested. New Zealand’s bowlers were in charge over large
3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 336 and 93 for 3 (Karunaratne 54*, Mathews 28*) need a further 208 runs to beat England 290 and 346 (Root 123, Foakes 65*, Burns 59, Dananjaya 6-115)Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Jack Leach uprooted three Sri Lanka wickets in the space of 14 runs, but the second Dimuth Karunaratne
Anya Shrubsole said she’s “not sure” how she got her hat-trick at Gros Islet and instead turned the spotlight on her team-mate Natalie Sciver, as the duo played key roles in bowling South Africa out for 85 and knocking them out of the Women’s World T20 Shrubsole, Player of the Final at last year’s World