8:18 AM ET Danyal Rasool Former Pakistan fielding coach Steve Rixon accused the PCB of “disrespect and stupidity”, and said he had “not once” been paid on time. Rixon said that was the reason he quit his post after two years, deciding he “didn’t need it that much”, and opted to walk out than have
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12:29 AM ET Australia’s Test captain Tim Paine now has joint lieutenants in Mitchell Marsh and Josh Hazlewood, at the end of a formal examination of the vice-captaincy that sought to avoid the continuation of a long pattern of failed leadership duos that included the banned Steven Smith and David Warner. While Hazlewood has been
3:00 AM ET Warwickshire 380 (Sibley 119, Rhodes 110) beat Kent 167 (Wright 3-29, Barker 3-31) and 179 (Crawley 75, Stone 3-35) by an innings and 34 runsScorecard It was a funny sort of celebration, really. There was champagne, of course, but there were also tears. There were lots of tears. You would have thought
shares Lift-off: Craig Overton celebrates © Getty Images Somerset 463 beat Nottinghamshire 133 and 184 by an innings and 146 runsScorecard Craig Overton picked up a hat-trick as Somerset rounded off an impressive season with an innings victory over Nottinghamshire in their final Specsavers County Championship match at the season. Overton’s feat came just
11:56 PM ET KL Rahul wants to make the best use of whatever position he gets, even though he has admitted to being disheartened and “frustrated at times” because team dynamics and combinations haven’t afforded ODI opportunities for him recently. However, he also clarified without going into specifics that the team management sat with him
3:00 AM ET Toss Afghanistan chose to bat v India play 1:43 Can this heavy-hitter help cause some upsets in the Asia Cup? After having given up India’s limited-overs captaincy in January 2017, MS Dhoni was given the leadership once again because India rested Rohit Sharma in the dead-rubber ODI against Afghanistan in the Asia
7:45 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Moeen Ali believes there is no need for sledging to involve personal insults, after it was confirmed that Cricket Australia would be taking no further action in the wake of his allegations that a member of Australia’s 2015 Ashes squad had called him “Osama” during the Cardiff Test match. Speaking
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies women 124 for 6 (McLean 38, Smith 2-17, Mali 2-24) beat South Africa women 107 for 7 (Kapp 30, Taylor 3-16, Fletcher 2-17) by 17 runs Natasha McLean swings hard WICB A three-wicket haul from captain Stafanie Taylor helped West Indies defend 124 at Kensington Oval and take a
2:34 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Stuart Law, who has coached West Indies since February 2017, has resigned. The 49-year old’s tenure will end following the tours to India in October and Bangladesh in November, after which he will move to England to take charge at Middlesex. “I have had to make the difficult decision to
3:00 AM ET India women 137 for 3 (Patil 54*, Rodrigues 52*, Ranasinghe 3 for 33) beat Sri Lanka women 134 for 5 (Siriwardene 40, Atapattu 31, Patil 3 for 36) by seven wickets Jemimah Rodrigues and Harmanpreet Kaur run between the wickets SLC Eighteen-year-old Jemimah Rodrigues reeled off her second consecutive half-century, with allrounder Anuja