Month: July 2018

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Derbyshire 179 for 7 (Madsen 66, Wahab 42, Thompson 3-23) beat Yorkshire 102 (Hughes 3-12, Ferguson 3-21, Viljoen 3-32)Scorecard Wayne Madsen‘s brilliant 66 off 28 balls led Derbyshire to a winning total of 179 for 7 as they completed a quick-fire double over Yorkshire with a rain-affected win at Emerald Headingley. The Falcons beat the Vikings, by 77 runs, for the second time in…

2:23 PM ET The sight of three left-arm wrist spinners bowling at England in the nets at Edgbaston underlined the extent to which the talk of spin bowling has dominated the lead-up to this series. It’s not just England’s reputation against such bowling or the dramatic impact made by Kuldeep Yadav at the start of the limited-overs series between these sides. It is that England has experienced a prolonged spell…

11:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mohammad Irfan is set to make a maiden appearance in the Caribbean Premier League, with the Barbados Tridents snapping up the tall left-arm fast bowler. In what is as close a like-for-like replacement as the Tridents could have wished for, he replaces his fellow Pakistan left-arm fast bowler Junaid Khan, who is unavailable for undisclosed reasons. Irfan, 36, hasn’t played for Pakistan in nearly two…

We know what it takes to play good cricket in England – Rahane (1:37) India’s vice-captain on the test of skill and character that comes along with playing cricket in England, and the importance of staying in the present, ahead of the first Test (1:37) 11:03 AM ET First Ravi Shastri, now Alastair Cook. The England batsman feels India’s fast-bowling attack has the kind of “strength and depth” he hasn’t…

10:36 AM ET George Dobell England may be celebrating playing the 1,000th Test this week at Edgbaston, but the prospect of 10,000 or so empty seats on the first couple of days may provide a reminder of the challenges facing the oldest format of the international game. Certainly ticket sales at Edgbaston for the first couple of days of the series are modest. With about 15,000 expected to attend on…

10:20 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Lord’s groundsman Mick Hunt will retire at the end of the current season after 49 years in the role. Hunt joined the Lord’s groundstaff in December 1969 and became head groundsman in 1985 following the retirement of Jim Fairbrother. The MCC will now begin a recruitment process for Hunt’s successor and the new man will begin with a very high-profile 2019 season which will include…

9:26 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Henry Brookes, the highly-rated 18-year-old Warwickshire pace bowler, has been ruled out for the remainder of the season with a stress fracture of his spine. Brookes had recently earned a maiden call-up to the England Lions squad during the tri-series involving West Indies A and India A and also spent time around the full one-day squad. He had taken seven wickets in five T20 Blast…

7:50 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A former Cricket Australia (CA) employee, sacked over a series of social media posts criticising the Tasmanian government over the availability of abortions in the state, has taken the matter to the Fair Work Commission. Angela Williamson, who had worked as CA’s government relations manager in Tasmania since 2016, was informed via formal letter on June 29 that her employment had been terminated after the…

Wayne Parnell scooped up a low catch off Nuwan Pradeep to wrap up Sri Lanka’s first innings  3:39 AM ET South Africa allrounder Wayne Parnell will play for Worcestershire until mid-September in both the Vitality Blast and County Championship first division as part of his preparation for the home summer. Parnell recently returned to action from a shoulder injury that had sidelined him since the start of the year. He…