3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Sussex 346 (Wells 122, van Zyl 92, Rushworth 4-64, Jennings 3-37) and 302 (Salt 72, Wells 58) beat Durham 385 (Latham 77, Steel 73, Clark 73*, Robinson 4-69) and 131 (Garton 3-20, Whittingham 3-26, Jordan 3-50) by 132 runs Sussex wrapped their seventh Specsavers County Championship win of the season when they beat Durham by 132 runs at Chester-le-Street. It completed a bad week…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A majority of the Bangladesh bowlers had a good outing on day two of their tour match against Cricket South Africa Invitation XI in Benoni. All the front-line bowling options took at least one wicket each with seamers Mustafizur Rahman and Subashis Roy particularly showing good control. Resuming from an overnight 21 for 1, the hosts moved to 313 for 8, securing a slender seven-run…
11:56 AM ET Arun Venugopal Ishant Sharma, the India fast bowler, has replaced Gautam Gambhir as Delhi captain for the 2017-18 Ranji Trophy season. This is the first time Ishant, 29, has been entrusted with the leadership of the side. With an experience of 77 Tests under his belt, a DDCA official felt Ishant was the best man for the job. “He is the senior-most man in the team,” the…
11:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Toby Roland-Jones‘ Ashes hopes are in severe doubt after being diagnosed with a stress fracture of the lower back. Roland-Jones, who played no part in the latter stages of Middlesex’s victory over Lancashire at Lord’s, had been a near-certainty to be named in England’s squad for the tour of Australia that is due to be announced at The Oval next Wednesday. Instead, he has been…
3:00 AM ET Northamptonshire 194 (Wood 4-52, Hutton 3-52) and 270 (Levi 115, Newton 53; Wood 4-31, Hutton 3-74) beat Nottinghamshire 151 (Kleinveldt 9-65) and 189 (Kleinveldt 4-33, Gleeson 3-52) by 124 runs And so it will all go down to the last week of the season. So much was made clear late on a September morning stolen from May when Richard Gleeson plucked out Brett Hutton’s off stump and…
10:44 AM ET Former South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini‘s contract as Zimbabwe’s bowling coach is unlikely to be renewed when it expires in January next year, and he may even be released before that date. Ntini is on a two-year deal that started in January last year. Graeme Cremer (captain), Regis Chakabva, Peter Moor, Solomon Mire, Hamilton Masakadza, Sean Williams, Craig Ervine, Chamu Chibhabha, Sikandar Raza, Donald Tiripano, Christopher…
Steve Patterson dug in for his highest first-class score © Getty Images Yorkshire 296 (Lyth 62, Bresnan 47, Rankin 3-48) and 178 for 8 (Patterson 44*) beat Warwickshire 219 (Patel 100, Fisher 5-54 ) and 251 (Trott 59, Patterson 4-46) by two wickets Yorkshire supporters had wanted to voice their farewells to Ryan Sidebottom in the final Championship match at Headingley. Instead, Sidebottom was injured and in his place they…
8:59 AM ET George Dobell West Indies remain confident they will appear in the 2019 World Cup, despite missing out on automatic qualification. With defeat in the first ODI at Old Trafford ending their distant hopes of direct qualification, they will now progress to the 10-team qualifier next year. There they will be joined by the bottom three sides in the ICC’s ODI rankings – Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and Ireland –…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Northants 194 and 270 (Levi 115, Newton 53, Wood 4-31) beat Nottinghamshire 151 (Kleinveldt 9-65) and 189 (Kleinveldt 4-33) by 124 runs Northamptonshire completed an impressive 124-run win over Nottinghamshire on the final morning at Wantage Road to take the race for promotion from Division Two of the Specsavers County Championship into the final week. The final day was perfectly poised as Notts resumed…
Band-e-Amir Dragons 158 for 7 (Ahmadi 55, Zahir 3-31) beat Mis Ainak Knights 154 for 7 (Raza 40, Rashid 1-22) by four runs © AFP Mis Ainak Knights needed 12 runs off the final over, but managed only seven as Band-e-Amir Dragons clinched a thriller to win the 2017 edition of the Shpageeza Cricket League. Chasing 159, Knights recovered from an early wobble to bring the equation down to 42…