Nov 8, 2018 Aditya Verma, the petitioner in the IPL 2013 corruption case who has now sought to depose in front of the independent inquiry committee looking into the Rahul Johri sexual-harassment case, has criticised the committee’s first response in the matter. The committee is trying to “scare away complainants”, Verma has said. Leading women’s

3:00 AM ET Australia women 165 for 5 (Healy 48, Mooney 48, Riaz 2-25, Sandhu 2-42) beat Pakistan 113 for 8 (Maroof 26, Mir 21*, Schutt 2-13, Wareham 2-18) by 52 runs Alyssa Healy looks for the midwicket boundary Getty Images and Cricket Australia In 21 previous limited-overs meetings over the years, Australia had never failed

7:16 AM ET Joe Root, England’s captain, praised his side’s adaptability and game awareness, after they ended a run of 13 overseas winless Tests by sealing a memorable 211-run victory over Sri Lanka on the fourth day in Galle. Having set Sri Lanka an improbable 462 for victory, England sealed the deal in the final

3:00 AM ET South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl against Australia Faf du Plessis won his second toss of the series and opted to bowl in Adelaide. With rumours of dew in the evening, du Plessis explained his decision by saying that South Africa wanted to keep the pressure on Australia’s top

6:54 PM ET Peter Della PennaCricket Close Peter Della Penna is an American cricket journalist who also writes for ESPNcricinfo.com and DreamCricket.com. Since 2010, he has penned the USA entry in the Cricket Round the World section of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterDellaPenna Another of USA’s fine generation of cricket stalwarts in southern California

3:00 AM ET Big Picture Pakistan exhibit characteristics of a person with dual-personality disorder when they switch between the two shorter formats. Give them 20 overs to play, and they are unstoppable. They can defend low scores, chase tricky targets, go ballistic at the top, and inflict collapses. Ask them to go a little longer,

Nov 7, 2018 Big picture Australia’s public – at least those with a match-day ticket or a Foxtel subscription – will turn their lonely eyes towards Adelaide Oval on Friday, hopeful that the national team will put on a better show than the one in Perth on Sunday. Against a well organised and confident South

3:00 AM ET Toss: New Zealand chose to bat v Pakistan Kane Williamson and Trent Boult at a practice session Getty Images On a hot November afternoon and what looks like a flat track, New Zealand opted to set a total for Pakistan to chase. Looking to come back from a whitewash in the T20I series,

11:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Trent Boult arrived in the UAE only three days ago, bouncing with joy at becoming a father for the first time. And two overs into his first outing in this series against Pakistan, he was celebrating a hat-trick. Talk about a fun week. Here is how Deivarayan Muthu captured it

3:00 AM ET He’s been compared to Shane Warne and proclaimed a saviour of Australian cricket, all before his 19th birthday. But rather than being overawed by it all, legspinner Lloyd Pope is embracing his life-changing experiences as he turns heads with his leg-breaks and wrong ‘uns. Pope burst onto the global scene with his