2:16 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Stuart Broad has been fined 15% of his match fee for the send-off he gave Rishabh Pant in India’s first innings at Trent Bridge. He also had one demerit point added to his record for the same incident, which had occurred on Sunday. This was Broad’s first offence since the introduction of the ICC’s revised Code of Conduct. He was found guilty of breaching Level…
3:00 AM ET Derbyshire 389 (Godleman 122, Madsen 72, Hughes 60*) and 6 for 0 need 399 more runs to beat Sussex 440 (Brown 116, Wiese 93, Finch 82, Ferguson 4-106) and 353 for 6 dec (Salt 148, Wells 78)Scorecard Phil Salt apparently likes to tell the story of how when he was growing up in Barbados he accidentally nicked Garry Sobers’ takeaway. Now he seems intent on nicking some…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 187 (Buck 4-51) and 374 for 9 (Holden 94, Harris 79*, Robson 72) lead Northamptonshire 346 (Vasconcelos 140, Harris 7-83) by 215 runsScorecard Max Holden and James Harris gave Middlesex hope of producing a remarkable turnaround against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road. The pair added 121 for the seventh wicket on the third afternoon to help steer Middlesex to 374 for 9 following-on, leading…
Aug 20, 2018 ECB Reporters Network Kent 195 (Denly 62, Abbas 6-48, Raine 4-62) and 253 for 2 (Dickson 134*, Kuhn 96) beat Leicestershire 220 (Horton 49, Thomas 4-35) and 227 (Dearden 74, Thomas 5-91) by eight wicketsScorecard Heino Kuhn and Sean Dickson took full advantage of much improved conditions to compile an unbroken double-century partnership and steer Kent to a three-day victory in their Specsavers County Championship match against…
© Getty Images The BCCI has registered its new constitution with the Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies in Chennai on August 21, following the Supreme Court order on August 9. The new constitution had some key tweaks from the one originally proposed by the Lodha Committee, including setting aside the one-state one-vote policy and allowing states such as Maharashtra and Gujarat to have multiple voting members. In its August 9…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Durham 295 (Axar 95*, Lees 69, Smith 5-87) beat Glamorgan>/b> 154 (Rushworth 3-36, Salisbury 3-34) and 111 (Rushworth 5-28) by an innings and 30 runsScorecard Durham’s bowlers needed only 8.2 overs to dismiss the remaining three Glamorgan batsmen at Sophia Gardens this morning to gain their third championship win of the season, and inflict on Glamorgan their third successive championship defeat and their sixth…
7:53 AM ET Matt Roller The Vitality Blast group stage could be extended from 14 to 16 games because county chairmen are lobbying to rid the competition of its existing uneven format and maximise revenue in the process. Since 2014, each side has played seven home games in the group stages, meaning that they miss out on hosting one team, and counties are pushing for change both for competitive and…
Aug 20, 2018 Umar Farooq Following Najam Sethi’s resignation and Ehsan Mani‘s looming election as PCB chairman, we look at what the process of electing a replacement entails. What happens now? The Prime Minister of Pakistan is constitutionally a patron of the Pakistan Cricket Board. According to the PCB constitution, the patron can exercise his power to nominate two people to the Board of Governors (BoG), from which the chairman…
3:00 AM ET Surrey 211 and 197 for 4 (Burns 70) lead Lancashire 247 (Vilas 61, Bohannon 52) by 161 runsScorecard There is a strong possibility, verging on likelihood, that The Oval is currently hosting the last ever day-night County Championship match. Surrey and Lancashire are the last two counties to endure the ordeal this season, and if reports from across the country are anything to go by, feedback on…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 154 and 79 for 7 trail Durham 295 (Axar 95*, Lees 69, Smith 5-87) by 62 runsScorecard On the day that Aneurin Donald, the 21-year-old Glamorgan batsman, decided to leave the club and join Hampshire, two Durham batsmen making their debut for the club made sizeable contributions as the visitors took control on the second day of their Championship game at Sophia Gardens….