7:20 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England will play their first Test match in St Lucia as part of a two-month tour of the Caribbean early next year. The other two venues for the three-match Test series, which is the first part of the trip, are Barbados and Antigua. England’s previous Test series in the Caribbean finished 1-1 after West Indies levelled the series in Barbados following England’s win in Grenada….
Compton: Pujara reaps rewards of Yorkshire stint (1:38) Nick Compton explains why Cheteshwar Pujara’s tough time at Yorkshire as finally paid off with an excellent innings in the fourth Test (1:38) 4:23 PM ET Balance and footwork were underlined as the two areas that Cheteshwar Pujara had to work on at the outset of the five-Test series. Pujara, who was benched for the first Test at Edgbaston, had been included…
3:00 AM ET Jon Culley Derbyshire 400 (Madsen 93, Godleman 71, Hughes 66) and 83 for 2 trail Kent 561 (Denly 106, Crawley 96, Stewart 85, Henry 81, Kuhn 51, Palladino 5-113) by 78 runsScorecard News of defeat for Sussex at Lord’s would have reached the Kent dressing room during the tea interval, conveniently enough, to provide them with the immediate incentive of knowing that the prize for victory here…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 111 (Higgins 4-26) and 117-6 (Cosgrove 42*) require a further 377 runs to beat Gloucestershire 202 and 402 for 4 dec (Dent 214*, Hammond 68)Scorecard Skipper Chris Dent hit an unbeaten 214 as Gloucestershire closed in on victory over Leicestershire on the third day of the Specsavers County Championship match at Bristol. The 27-year-old left-hander reached his second Championship double hundred off 281…
3:00 AM ET Yorkshire 320 (Hodd 85, Kohler-Cadmore 81, Davey 5-65) and 8 for 2 need 411 more runs to beat Somerset 399 (Azhar 89, Hildreth 81, Davies 80, Brooks 5-116) and 339 for 7 dec (Abell 132*, Hildreth 72, Gregory 57)Scorecard The suspicion is growing that the Championship season is turning sour for Yorkshire and it will take a redoubtable display on the final day at Headingley to challenge…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Warwickshire 503 (Bell 204, Hain 61, Barker 58) beat Glamorgan 203 (Meschede 53*, Stone 4-28) and 265 (Smith 52*, Patel 7-83) by an innings and 35 runsScorecard Warwickshire gained a resounding win at Colwyn Bay with a day and 12 overs to spare, to consolidate their position as leaders of Division Two with four games remaining. The margin of victory, an innings and 35…
3:00 AM ET Matt Roller Middlesex 169 (Holden 50*) and 232 (Eskinazi 60, Malan 70, Archer 5-69, Robinson 4-59) beat Sussex 171 (Harris 4-61) and 175 by 55 runsScorecard If Middlesex’s promotion charge turns out to be successful, they will look back on this victory as a season-defining one. Defeat here would have left them needing to win all of their last four games to have any realistic chance of…
11:46 AM ET Deivarayan Muthu A day after his 38th birthday, former India batsman and former Tamil Nadu captain, S Badrinath announced his retirement from all forms of cricket with immediate effect, ending a domestic career that started in 2000. After becoming the 47th Indian to 10,000 first-class runs in November 2016 – while captaining Hyderabad as a professional – he opted out of the entire 2017-18 first-class season in…
10:48 AM ET Saurabh Somani Sanju Samson is among 13 players who have been punished by the Kerala Cricket Association for dissent against captain Sachin Baby. Five of the players have been suspended for three matches, while eight have been fined the equivalent of BCCI match fees for three one-day games. The five players who are suspended are Raiphi Gomez, Sandeep Warrier, Rohan Prem, KM Asif and Mohammed Azharuddeen. The…
10:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The BCCI is confident of a seamless and hopefully competitive introduction of new teams to domestic cricket as it goes from organising “900 matches a year to 2017 matches”. Saba Karim, the BCCI general manager of operations, said it was extremely challenging to work on the logistics, but is confident the systems have been put in place. The number of matches has gone up because…