8:00 AM GMT Karnataka 180 for 5 (Pandey 60*, Kadam 35, M Ashwin 2-33, R Ashwin 2-34) beat Tamil Nadu 179 for 6 (Vijay 44, Aparajith 40, More 2-32) by one run Defending champions Karnataka survived a Baba Aparajith-Vijay Shankar scare to clinch the last-ball thriller as they beat Tamil Nadu by one run in

Nov 30, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Victoria 2 for 205 (Pucovski 62*, Maddinson 59, Handscomb 44*) trail New South Wales 294 (Abbott 54, Nevill 50, Siddle 3-52, Pattinson 3-62) by 89 runs Victoria lost only two wickets in 69 overs as they razed 205 runs off New South Wales’ first-innings total of 294 on the second

8:00 AM GMT England 142 for 2 (Burns 76*, Root 50*) trail New Zealand 375 (Latham 105, Mitchell 73, Watling 55, Broad 4-73) by 233 runs “Bat big, bat once,” had been Stuart Broad’s exhortation on the second evening at Hamilton, after England’s frazzled batsmen had retreated to the pavilion following a torrid evening examination

8:00 AM GMT Durban Heat notched up their second win in the 2019 MSL to move into fourth place on the table and remain in the mix for the playoffs. The Nelson Mandela Bay Giants suffered their second defeat of the competition, but they still remain in the top three. The Heat completed a second

5:01 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jess Duffin continued to carry the Melbourne Renegades on her shoulders as they pushed for a place in the semi-finals with a superbly-paced chase against the Melbourne Stars to win by six wickets with a ball to spare. Duffin struck 76 off 57 balls after coming in at 2 for

9:45 PM GMT Valkerie Baynes Ollie Pope is keen to prove himself as a world-class wicketkeeper after he was parachuted into the role as for the second Test against New Zealand as cover for the injured Jos Buttler. Pope, who went into the match in Hamilton having kept in just five first-class matches previously, scarcely

8:00 AM GMT Tamil Nadu 116 for 3 (Washington 54*, R Ashwin 31, D Chahar 1-11) beat Rajasthan 112 for 9 (Rajesh Bishnoi 23, Vijay Shankar 2-13, Washington 1-2) by seven wickets Dinesh Karthik’s Tamil Nadu and Manish Pandey’s Karnataka will square off for the Syed Mushtaq Ali title in a repeat of the 50-over

9:41 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff James Anderson has said he “doesn’t see any reason” why he shouldn’t play in the 2021-22 Ashes series as a 39-year-old despite bowling only four overs for England in the last nine months. Anderson went off after hurting his calf during the first day of first Ashes Test at Edgbaston

Zak Crawley is presented with his Test cap by team-mate Joe Denly © Getty Images England won the toss and chose to bowl first against New Zealand Zak Crawley has been handed a Test debut for the second Test in Hamilton, with Ollie Pope taking over as wicketkeeper, after Jos Buttler failed to recover from

5:35 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Fabian Allen has recovered from a knee injury to make the trip back to India to play a T20I series with West Indies. The left-arm spinning allrounder was part of the squad that took on Afghanistan in Lucknow earlier this month but had to pull out after playing the first