3:00 AM ET Danyal Rasool Quetta Gladiators 161 for 4 (Umar 75*, Sarfaraz 37, Wahab 2-18) beat Peshawar Zalmi 155 for 4 (Misbah 49*, Kamran 49, Mohammad Nawaz 2-25) by six wickets How the game played out He may have been cast out into the wilderness by the Pakistan cricket team, but Umar Akmal found

6:52 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and KL Rahul will be back playing for India again when they take on Australia in a series of two T20Is and five ODIs starting February 24. While those three players will be available for each of the seven matches, frontline fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar has

11:51 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Islamabad United chased down Lahore Qalandars’ 171 for 8 with enough to spare in their PSL 2019 opener, but they could well have had a slightly smaller target but for a rare occurrence during the Lahore innings – penalty runs for the ball hitting Luke Ronchi‘s discarded wicketkeeping gloves. It

1:47 PM ET Against Pakistan Dale Steyn was consistently clocked at speeds in the mid-140kph range, for the first time in years. Now, against Sri Lanka, he has delivered a long, fast spell. Following an eighteen-month period – between the end of 2016 and mid 2018 – where Steyn could play only one Test due

3:00 AM ET Report by Alex Malcolm Melbourne Stars 4 for 157 (Maxwell 43*, Ahmad 3-33) beat Hobart Hurricanes 7 for 153 (McDermott 53, Worrall 4-23) by six wickets Revenge is a dish best served cold. And on a cold night in Hobart, five years on from the Hurricanes upsetting the undefeated Melbourne Stars in

2:23 PM ET Quinton de Kock, South Africa’s best batsman on day one of the first Test, has conceded that Sri Lanka’s inexperienced quicks caught his team “off guard” at Kingsmead. There are few real surprises in top-level cricket any more, such is the preponderance of video analysis. Generally, it is also a disadvantage to

1:04 PM ET England’s top-order struggles could make it very difficult for Ben Foakes to win a Test recall, Trevor Bayliss believes. While England have attempted, at various times, to mould Joe Root, Moeen Ali and Jonny Bairstow into a Test No. 3, the team management have now accepted that all of them belong in

7:16 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England’s 2-1 series defeat at the hands of West Indies has dropped them two places to fifth on the ICC Test Team Rankings. England, who play just one more Test – a four-day fixture against Ireland in July – before the Ashes, now sit one place below Australia, with India,

Feb 11, 2019 Danyal Rasool History Peshawar Zalmi have, alongside Quetta Gladiators, been the most consistent sides in the PSL. The only team besides Islamabad United to lift a trophy, popularity has come easy to the men representing northern Pakistan clad in yellow. They set the tone in the first year when they topped the

  shares Michael Hussey celebrates his century against South Africa in the 2005 Boxing Day Test © Getty Images Kerry Packer made a personal attempt to have the chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns rush Michael Hussey into the Australian team for the pivotal final Test of the 2005 Ashes series at The Oval in place