1:01 PM ET George Dobell in Antigua Joe Denly has admitted the prospect of earning a spot in England’s Ashes team is hard to ignore. Denly made his Test debut in Antigua becoming, aged 32, England’s oldest debutant since Alan Wells in 1995. While he didn’t enjoy the best of games, scoring 6 and 17
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3:00 AM ET Big Picture After a hard-earned win in the final ODI in Wellington underscored India’s domination over New Zealand in the format – in a World Cup year at that – what value can a T20I series hold for the visiting side? For one, India haven’t yet won a T20I match in New
4:57 PM ET George Dobell in Antigua Joni Mitchell almost certainly wasn’t thinking about Nick Compton when she wrote Big Yellow Taxi, but the first couple of lines of the chorus fit pretty well, anyway. “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,” she sang. And, as
3:00 AM ET Lunch Vidarbha 312 (Karnewar 73*, Kale 35, Unadkat 3-54) v Saurashtra Coming into the Ranji Trophy 2018-19 final, Akshay Karnewar had a first-class batting average of 26 and a bowling average of 18.22 in 10 matches. Despite that, he was best known for being an ambidextrous bowler, who could bowl finger spin
shares Martin Guptill gestures after missing a direct hit run-out © Getty Images New Zealand opener Martin Guptill, who had missed the fifth ODI against India in Wellington, has also been sidelined from the upcoming three-match T20I series, which begins at the same venue on Wednesday. Seam-bowling allrounder James Neesham, who had been initially
1:08 PM ET Trevor Bayliss, the England coach, has admitted that the Test team’s batting may have become “muddled” by the demands for extra aggression in one-day cricket. England were bowled out for 187 and 132 in Antigua, having mustered just 77 in their first innings in Barbados, to give West Indies an unassailable 2-0
8:28 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff When he made his India debut, Kedar Jadhav was 29 and had considerable domestic experience: 162 matches across first-class, List A and T20 cricket. In those 162 matches, however, he had only bowled 17 times, taking all of eight wickets. The second string he was known for then, in fact,
3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 7 for 215 (Dilrwaun 10*) trail 5 for 534 by 319 runs Sri Lanka succumbed to both spin and fearsome short-pitched barrage from Australia’s quicks on the third morning, losing four wickets, while another batsman had to retire hurt. Breaching speeds of 150kph, Mitchell Starc delivered the most intimidating
3:00 AM ET Lunch England 187 and 9 for 0 (Burns 4*, Denly 0*) trail West Indies 306 (Bravo 50, Brathwaite 49, Broad 3-53, Moeen 3-62) by 110 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details A tenacious half century from Darren Bravo has led West Indies to a handy lead against England on day three of the