7:21 AM ET Alastair Cook says that he will retire from international cricket at the end of the forthcoming Oval Test knowing that he managed to dredge every ounce out of his ability. Cook, who will retire after an England record 161 Test appearances, said that his decision to stand down had come during a six-month period in which he felt that he had mislaid the mental edge that had…
5:45 AM ET George Dobell Mick Jagger has pledged to donate £20,000 to Chance to Shine each time a player from either side scores a century or claims a five-wicket haul in the final Test of the summer at The Oval. He will also donate £10,000 for every half-century or three-wicket haul. Jagger, the Rolling Stones singer, has a long association with cricket. The son of a PE teacher and…
3:00 AM ET Australia A 243 (Khawaja 127, Labuschagne 60, Siraj 8-59) and 292 (Head 87, Siraj 3-77) beat India A 274 (Bharat 91*, Agarwal 47, Neser 4-61, Holland 3-89) and 163 (Agarwal 80, Holland 6-81) by 98 runs Jon Holland delivers the ball AFP Australia A built sustained pressure on the final day of the first unofficial Test, and it was too much for India A, who crumbled around opening…
3:00 AM ET St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 169 for 8 (Allen 64*, Irfan 3-37) beat Barbados Tridents 168 for 5 (Pooran 44, Chase 38*, Shamsi 2-16) by two wickets Tabraiz Shamsi wheels away after taking a wicket Randy Brooks – CPL T20 / Getty A sparkling half-century in Fabian Allen‘s maiden CPL innings salvaged a floundering chase to take St Kitts & Nevis Patriots past Barbados Tridents by two wickets…
Jack Leach took seven wickets on the first day © Getty Images Lancashire 99 (Leach 5-28) and 7 for 2 trail Somerset 192 (Gregory 64*, Maharaj 4-65, Onons 3-40) by 86 runsScorecard The long-distance jurors reached their verdicts quickly on the first afternoon of this game. The motive was clear enough and although the evidence was circumstantial, the defendant had form. Well before the 22nd wicket of the day had…
3:00 AM ET Nottinghamshire 332 for 7 (Slater 109, Duckett 80, Brathwaite 71, Waite 3-72) v YorkshireScorecard If Ben Slater‘s motivation for leaving Derbyshire for Trent Bridge was to improve his conversion rate for fifties into hundreds then so far it has been 100 percent successful. The busy left-hander completed 25 half-centuries in a little over five seasons at the County Ground but turned only three into centuries, the last…
1:54 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Exactly 13 years after making his international debut in an ODI against Zimbabwe on September 4 in Harare, former India left-arm seamer RP Singh has announced his retirement from all cricket. The 32-year old played 82 matches across formats for India between 2005 and 2011. “Today as I hang [up] my boots and call it a day I wish to remember and give thanks to…
1:44 PM ET Umar Farooq Newly elected chairman Ehsan Mani has vowed to push ahead with Pakistan’s case against India in the ICC dispute committee, calling the BCCI’s approach “contradictory” and vowing not to back down. On his first day in office, he also set his sights on fixing the domestic structure, promising to make Pakistan cricket stronger than ever. In a thinly veiled dig at his predecessor, he said…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Surrey 256 for 4 (Burns 90, Elgar 75) vs EssexScorecard Rory Burns and Dean Elgar compiled a second-wicket stand of 148 to underpin Specsavers County Championship champions-elect Surrey’s first-day ascendancy over reigning champions Essex at Chelmsford. The pair weathered an early storm before settling into a patient, but punishing partnership as Surrey sought their eighth Championship win in a row to move inexorably towards…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 20 for 0 trail Blankshire 251 (Godleman 95, Wagg 3-36, van der Gugten 3-66) by 231 runsScorecard Derbyshire captain Billy Godleman continued his recent impressive run of form with 95 to steer his side to respectability on the opening day of the Division Two match against Glamorgan at Derby. Godleman, who had scored a century and 71 in his previous four innings, passed…