3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa women 201 for 9 (Luus 58, van Niekerk 46, Wolvaardt 45, Taylor 3-37) beat West Indies women 161 (Campbelle 46, Kapp 3-14, Mali 2-11) by 40 runs Sune Luus is congratulated by Marizanne Kapp ICC/Getty Images Marizanne Kapp‘s economy and potency with the ball led South Africa’s defence of

3:00 AM ET Big Picture It’s debatable how much of an upset an Afghanistan victory would even be, on Monday. ODIs are, without a doubt, Sri Lanka’s worst format. Over the last 18 months, they have lost half the matches they have played against Zimbabwe, for example, on top of which they have comprehensively lost

3:00 AM ET Toss: Hong Kong chose to bat v Pakistan play 1:38 Saqlain Mushtaq and Deep Dasgupta dissect Pakistan’s Asia Cup opener against Hong Kong, and what they will seek to take away from the game In their first game at this year’s Asia Cup, Hong Kong captain Anshy Rath decided to bat in

3:00 AM ET Worcestershire 158 for 5 (Cox 46*, Moeen 41) beat Sussex 157 for 6 (Evans 52, Wright 33) by five wickets Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Throughout the Blast season the refrain had gradually become louder: Sussex have the finest bowling attack in T20, certainly in England, perhaps in the world. But Worcestershire survived

11:09 AM ET “Baal sabke kaale hai” (All of you have black hair), quipped Sarfraz Ahmed as he sat alongside Rohit Sharma, Angelo Mathews, Mashrafe Mortaza, Asghar Afghan and Anshy Rath at the captains’ press conference to unveil the Asia Cup in Dubai on Friday. It elicited laughter among the audience. Sarfraz was just getting

3:00 AM ET Sussex 202 for 8 (Wright 92, Wiese 52, Taylor 4-20) beat Somerset 167 (Abell 48, Anderson 48) by 35 runsScorecard Luke Wright will bring up his 300th T20 match in the Blast final after he bulldozed 92 to set up Sussex’s semi-final victory over Somerset. Wright’s 53-ball innings was the highest on

Sep 14, 2018 Trinbago Knight Riders 165 for 6 (McCullum 43, Cottrell 2-24) beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 145 for 8 (Thomas 35, Fawad 3-13) by 20 runs Fawad Ahmed in his delivery stride Getty Images Fawad Ahmed, this season’s leading wicket-taker, shone brightest as his brilliant spell devastated the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots

7:22 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Moeen Ali has intensified the focus on Australian player behaviour after claiming that an unnamed member of their 2015 Ashes team subjected him to a racial taunt during his first appearance against them. Writing in his autobiography, which is being serialised in The Times ahead of the book’s publication later

12:13 PM ET Moeen Ali has paid tribute to his England colleague, Jos Buttler, as the pair prepare to go head to head in Worcestershire Rapids’ Vitality Blast semi-final against Lancashire Lightning at Edgbaston. “I’m not sure I want to bowl at him too much, the way he’s been playing this year,” said Moeen, as

4:21 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Leicestershire, already reeling from the loss of Ben Raine and Zak Chappell, have prepared ground for their winter recruitment by releasing four players, including their long-serving wicketkeeper Ned Eckersley. Eckersley, 29, is Leicestershire’s longest serving player, having made his first-class debut in August 2011, and made 205 appearances in all