3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Yorkshire 256 (Hodd 62, Fletcher 4-47) and 334 (Ballance 82, Bresnan 68*) beat Nottinghamshire 188 (Taylor 57, Coad 4-49) and 238 (Coad 6-81) by 164 runsScorecard Yorkshire dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s on a Specsavers County Championship win by 164 runs over Nottinghamshire at Emerald Headingley, claiming the last two wickets within the first hour of play on the final day. Their…
6:58 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Afghanistan legspinner Rashid Khan, the No. 1 ranked T20I bowler, has been added to the World XI squad that will take on West Indies in a one-off T20I at Lord’s on May 31. The match is being organised to raise funds for the reconstruction of stadiums that were damaged in the Caribbean last year by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Rashid’s participation, along with the Bangladesh…
5:28 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa will play five home Tests, 13 ODIs and nine T20s in the 2018-19 summer, which will see incoming tours from Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The international fixtures, released on Monday, start on September 30 and end on March 24 but there is a 10-week gap between mid-October and Boxing Day, leaving room for the possibility of a T20 Global League, though the…
‘Lifetime experience for Gowtham and the rest of us’ – Samson (0:34) Rajasthan Royals needed 43 off 17 balls and they pulled it off thanks to a Sanju Samson half-century and a K Gowtham blitz at the end (0:34) 10:38 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The equation read 43 off 17 balls when an uncapped batsman walks in to play but his fifth IPL innings. One of the best death bowlers…
Ben Coad is in the wickets again © Getty Images Nottinghamshire 188 and 181 for 8 (Coad 4 -55) require a further 222 runs to beat Yorkshire 256 and 334 (Ballance 82, Bresnan 68*)Scorecard On the eve of the 2018 season, Liam Plunkett and David Willey were both India-bound, favouring the lucrative IPL over their duties in the Championship. Yorkshire’s pace line-up was further depleted with injuries. If they needed…
3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards at Kia Oval Hampshire 147 and 116 for 4 need 356 more runs to beat Surrey 211 and 407 for 9 dec (Pope 145, Foakes 81, Borthwick 74)Scorecard On the first day of this game few things looked as unlikely as a declaration. Yet at 2.51pm on the third afternoon Surrey skipper Rory Burns beckoned Matt Dunn back to the pavilion thereby setting Hampshire 472…
David Lloyd set up Glamorgan’s victory push © Getty Images Gloucestershire 236 and 133 for 5 trail Glamorgan 526 for 9 dec (Lloyd 119, Marsh 111, de Lange 50*) by 157 runsScorecard A career best century from David Lloyd has left Glamorgan in pole position going into the final day of their Specsavers County Championship game against Gloucestershire, in Bristol. Having started the day 60 runs ahead of Gloucestershire’s first…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Sussex 438 for 8 dec and 11 for 0 lead Leicestershire 422 for 9 dec (Ackerman 186, Cosgrove 64, Wells 4-81) by 27 runsScorecard Colin Ackermann hit 186 as Leicestershire ended the third day of their Specsavers county championship on close to level terms against opponents Sussex. The South African, who had been 61 not out overnight, went to his 150 shortly before tea,…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 157 and 86 for 3 need 356 more runs to beat Derbyshire 265 and 333 for 3 dec (Reece 157*, Slater 99, Madsen 52)Scorecard Derbyshire are poised to end their long wait for a home Championship victory after they outplayed Middlesex for the third day running in the Division Two match at Derby. Luis Reece scored an unbeaten 157 and Ben Slater fell…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Warwickshire 413 (Ambrose 103, Hain 85, Brookes 70) beat Northamptonshire 147 (Sidebottom 6-35) and 218 (Rossington 58, Sidebottom 4-61) by an innings and 48 runsScorecard Ryan Sidebottom took 10 wickets in the match as Warwickshire got their bid for an immediate return to Division One of the Specsavers County Championship underway with an innings-and-48-run victory over Northamptonshire on the third afternoon at Wantage Road….