3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl against EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Sri Lanka the toss and chose to bowl in the first ODI of the series in Dambulla, with newly instated captain Dinesh Chandimal hoping for some assistance against the No. 1-ranked side from a “little bit of
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9:53 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rassie van der Dussen revelled in a “dream come true” after setting up South Africa’s 34-run win over Zimbabwe in East London with a fifty on T20I debut. “It was pretty close to perfect – a fifty on debut, and to top it off the team winning, which is obviously
3:00 AM ET Pakistan 155 for 5 (Imam 48, Haris 39, Holland 3-43) and 482 all out (Hafeez 126, Haris 110, Siddle 3-58) lead Australia 202 all out (Khawaja 85, Finch 62, Asif 6-36, Abbas 4-29) by 435 runs Imam-ul-Haq skips down the track and deposits one over long-on Getty Images Any hopes Australia may have
2:08 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hales has signed up for BPL franchise Rangpur Riders for the 2018-19 season, their CEO Ishtiaque Sadeque has confirmed. Hales became Riders’ first of the two signings from outside the draft, apart from their four retained players Chris Gayle, Mashrafe Mortaza, Nazmul Islam and Mohammad Mithun. Hales’ deal with
3:00 AM ET South Africa opt to bat v Zimbabwe Faf du Plessis goes for a catch AFP South Africa’s white-ball experiment continued as they picked two debutants for the first of three T20Is against Zimbabwe. Gihahn Cloete will be the first of the two international rookies to take the field when he opens the batting,
2:42 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Opener Nicole Bolton and left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen have been included in the 15-member Australia squad for the Women’s World T20 that will run from November 9 to 25 in the West Indies. Bolton has played just two T20Is in her four-year international career, and her last game was back
11:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Six teams have qualified for the quarter-finals of Vijay Hazare Trophy, with four teams from Elite Group C still vying for the two remaining places. From the 18 teams that were jostling for five spots from Elite groups A and B, Mumbai led the way, followed by Delhi, Maharashtra, Andhra
11:47 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hong Kong’s Irfan Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed and Haseeb Amjad have been charged by the ICC for breaching the anti-corruption code for a total of 19 counts. The ICC provisionally suspended the players with immediate effect, pending determination of the charges, a release from the governing body said on Monday. While
shares Kane Williamson celebrates a record 18th Test century © Getty Images Eleven New Zealand internationals including captain Kane Williamson, fast bowlers Tim Southee and Trent Boult and senior batsman Ross Taylor are available to play for their respective domestic sides in round one of Plunket Shield from October 10. A few of these
12:35 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Years after taking the last of his 444 international wickets, Shoaib Akhtar may have made another match-turning contribution for Pakistan – via a phone call to Mohammad Hafeez. With his international career seemingly winding down, and having been downgraded in Pakistan’s central contracts list, the 37-year-old Hafeez had contemplated retiring.