3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Durham 174 for 7 (Prasanna 2-22) beat Northants 162 for 9 (Duckett 40, Prasanna 38, Rushworth 3-22) by 12 runsScorecard Durham went top of the North Group of the Vitality Blast with a 12-run win at Northamptonshire as their Twenty20 season continued to bring pleasure where for most of the financially-stricken past two years there has been only pain Having set 174 for 7…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 155 for 2 (Ingram 71*) beat Hampshire 151 for 8 (Rossouw 50, Meschede 3-21) by eight wicketsScorecard Glamorgan outplayed Hampshire at Sophia Gardens, winning easily by eight wickets to gain their seventh win, and move into third place and lead Sussex and Surrey by three points. Their captain and Man of the Match Colin Ingram again led by example, with an undefeated 71,…
England’s best catchers aren’t in the slips – Hussain (1:35) Former England captain Nasser Hussain explains the problems facing England’s suspect slip cordon (1:35) 5:15 PM ET Andrew Miller at Lord’s It’s not just the covers that were doing the Hokey Cokey on the second day at Lord’s. In, out, in, out … the same applied to England’s slip cordon, freshly reconstituted for this Test after Dawid Malan’s own drops…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 155 for 9 (Cosgrove 33, Raine 32) beat Worcestershire 150 for 6 (Ferguson 69, Griffiths 3-28) by five runsScorecard Despite the best efforts of Callum Ferguson, Worcestershire Rapids fell short completing the victory that might have guaranteed themselves a home Vitality Blast quarter-final in their bid to reach Twenty20 finals day for the first time in their history. The 33-year-old Australian, who registered…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Nottinghamshire 212 for 5 (Moores 80*, Libby 58) beat Yorkshire 149 for 7 (Kohler-Cadmore 72, Willey 30, Gurney 3-24) by 63 runsScorecard A thrilling century stand between Tom Moores and Jake Libby returned Notts Outlaws to winning ways in their crucial Vitality Blast match against Yorkshire Vikings. Both youngsters registered their highest scores in the competition, as Notts posted 212 for 5 on their…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 185 for 5 (Brown 61, Clark 41*, Thomson 4-35) beat Birmingham 148 (Hose 45, Parkinson 3-23) by 37 runsScorecard Exciting young legspinner Matt Parkinson claimed 3 for 23 as Lancashire beat Birmingham Bears by 37 runs to make it back-to-back Vitality Blast wins and strengthen their grip on a quarter-final place. The Lightning comfortably defended their total of 185 for 5, given to…
3:00 AM ET Stumps India 107 ( Anderson 5-20, Woakes 2-19) v England In a match that had already lost a day to rain, at a ground where a middle-aged man attempted belly flops on the covers, on a day the media-box’s kitchen was reportedly flooded, India’s batting line-up found ways to be the clumsiest, most broken part of the game. Sent in to bat on a day punctuated by…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Somerset 177 for 6 (Trego 70, Anderson 53, Morkel 3-30) beat Surrey 176 for 9 (Jacks 53, J Overton 4-24) by four wicketsScorecard Peter Trego and Corey Anderson led the way as Somerset cemented their position at the top of the South Group with a four-wicket Vitality Blast victory over Surrey at Taunton Surrey posted 176 for 8, thanks largely to teenager Will Jacks,…
12:47 PM ET George Dobell The co-defendant in the Ben Stokes trial has accepted video footage shows he struck a man with a bottle before he was punched by Stokes. Ryan Ali, who like Stokes is on trial for affray at Bristol Crown Court, accepted under cross-examination from Gordon Cole QC, acting on behalf of Stokes, that he could be seen “going towards” England cricketer Alex Hales with a bottle…
12:39 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff They have only little more than a quarter of the number of caps of South Africa’s most lauded new-ball pair, Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, but Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi have made captain Faf du Plessis “really excited” ahead of the 2019 World Cup. While Steyn, who has 116 caps, remains in contention for the tournament, Morkel, who played 117 matches, has retired. But…