9:07 AM ET India managed to see out the opening spells of England’s Big Two – James Anderson and Stuart Broad – but instead lost three top-order wickets in a hurry to the 20-year-old Sam Curran. Here’s a little bit more on one of the newer faces in England’s Test side Curran…there’s another of those, isn’t there? Yes, indeed. Sam’s brother Tom, who also plays for Surrey, made his Test…
5:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin has consciously worked on deceiving batsmen in the air over the last 18 months. He revealed this in a chat with India’s bowling coach Bharat Arun on bcci.tv after picking up four wickets on the opening day of the Edgbaston Test. Varying his speeds, he observed, has also been key to his reinvention as an offspinner. Before the start of the ongoing series,…
#PoliteEnquiries: Is it all Yorkshire’s fault? (5:19) Melinda Farrell and George Dobell take your questions on Ravi Ashwin, Dawid Malan and England collapses (5:19) 5:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Joe Root says that he welcomes the spice that Virat Kohli’s “mic-drop” celebration will add to the England-India Test series, after his dismissal to Kohli’s direct-hit run-out turned the tide of England’s innings on the first day at Edgbaston. Root, on…
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Bernadine Bezuidenhout swats one into the leg side © Getty Images Jess Watkin and Bernadine Bezuidenhout have both been offered central contracts for the New Zealand women, after their performances on the tour of Ireland and England. Watkin made 77 not out on her T20I debut and 62 on her ODI debut – both against Ireland – with the second knock part of a record total of 491 for 4….
2:00 AM ET Imran Khan may not be the only cricketing superstar present at his impending inauguration as Prime Minister of Pakistan later this month, with Indian cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Sidhu all potential attendees. Fawad Chaudhry, the spokesperson for the party Imran heads, confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that enquiries had been made of the Foreign Office to see if foreign delegates could be invited to the oath-taking…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 129 for 6 (Hammond 35, Rashid 2-14) beat Sussex 127 for 8 (Evans 46, Payne 2-15) by four wicketsScorecard Gloucestershire returned to the top of the South Group after scrambling to a four-wicket win over Sussex Sharks in the Vitality Blast at Hove. A slow pitch was perfect for their pace-off attack who set up their fifth win from seven games by restricting…
3:08 PM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Angelo Mathews put it bluntly: “We were a bunch of schoolkids when it came to today’s fielding.” Niroshan Dickwella said basically the same thing, but with a little more subtlety, drawing attention to the many “mistakes” that led to Sri Lanka’s 10th straight loss to South Africa, and their second loss in this series. Sri Lanka had begun shakily with the bat, losing two…
James Hildreth carves away during his fifty © Getty Images Somerset 197 for 7 (Hildreth 57, Wood 5-32) beat Hampshire 181 for 9 (Dawson 82, Vince 74, Taylor 5-15) by 16 runsScorecard West Indies paceman Jerome Taylor claimed five wickets as Somerset beat Hampshire by 16 runs in a high-scoring Vitality Blast South Group match at Taunton. The home side posted 197 for 7 after losing the toss, recovering from…
1:00 PM ET George Dobell England have not given up hope that Ben Stokes could be available for the second Test starting at Lord’s on August 9. Stokes is due in court in Bristol on August 6 – the day after the Edgbaston Test is scheduled to finish – to face a charge of affray with the case scheduled to last somewhere between five and seven days. But the England…