Sam Hain gives Bears the edge as Derbyshire falter

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Birmingham Bears 205 for 5 (Hain 85, Hose 69) beat Derbyshire 156 for 9 (du Plooy 70) by 49 runs Birmingham Bears made it back-to-back wins in the Vitality Blast as they beat Derbyshire Falcons by 49 runs in front of 7,500 at Edgbaston. Chasing a hefty 205 for 5, the Falcons faltered early with the loss of two wickets in the first nine…

July 24, 2019
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Joe Clarke, Dan Christian shine as Notts continue winning run against Northants

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Nottinghamshire 155 for 3 (Clarke 45) beat Northamptonshire 152 for 8 (Christian 3-32) by seven wickets Joe Clarke rediscovered some of his best form to help Notts Outlaws open their account with a first victory in this season’s Vitality Blast competition. Notts had already been defeated by Worcestershire Rapids and suffered a washout in their other match but had the better of their Trent…

July 24, 2019
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'Walking off at lunchtime was as good a feeling in my career' – Tim Murtagh on dizzying Lord's homecoming

4:21 PM ET Paul Muchmore at Lord’s An England home match? Try telling that to Tim Murtagh. After Joe Root made the call to bat under glorious blue skies in St. John’s Wood, Irish cricket aficionados wouldn’t have been too displeased at being put in to have a bowl. After all, William Porterfield had a Middlesex stalwart amongst the cards in his pack to play. While the hosts were without…

July 24, 2019
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Collapse could be just the 'jolt' to focus England minds ahead of the Ashes – Thorpe

4:07 PM ET George Dobell at Lord’s Graham Thorpe admitted there were “no real excuses” for England’s poor performance with the bat at Lord’s but suggested the experience could prove just “the jolt” required to focus minds ahead of the Ashes. England’s first innings amounted to just 85. It was the first time they had been bowled out before lunch on the first day of a Lord’s Test and the…

July 24, 2019
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Ryan Higgins ignites Gloucestershire as Cheltenham rocks to the Festival spirit

3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards Gloucestershire 354 (Smith 83, Higgins 76, Dent 58; Leach 6-79) and 184 (Barnard 3-17, Parnell 3-37) beat Worcestershire 293 (Whiteley 88, D’Oliveira 68, Higgins 3-52) and 232 (Ferguson 63, Higgins 4-64) by 13 runs They will be waltzing in Montpellier Gardens tonight. Even the public reading of Sense and Sensibility will have to be postponed. There may even be a knees-up at the Bowls Club…

July 24, 2019
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David Warner reveals Ashes method to slower tempo

3:41 PM ET Fifty-six runs, 84 balls, five boundaries. Fifty-eight runs, 94 balls, eight boundaries. Those two innings were both played by David Warner, six weeks apart, in vastly different circumstances. The first was his battling contribution against India in the World Cup match at The Oval, a source of much criticism that Warner was going too slowly and digging a hole for his team. The second took place on…

July 24, 2019
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Bowlers pose rare conundrum, snapping at the heels of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood

Jul 23, 2019 Hick XII 96 for 7 (Cummins 3-15, Siddle 3-20) trail Haddin XII 105 (Labuschagne 41, Neser 4-18, Bird 3-25) by nine runs In their quest to avoid a repeat of the batting humiliations in Birmingham and Nottingham four years ago that led to the loss of the Ashes, it cannot have been in Australia’s warm-up plans to stage such a faithful re-enactment. Requesting a seaming, bouncing surface…

July 24, 2019
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Players said they didn't get to talk to the coach – BCB president

BCB president Nazmul Hassan believed that Steve Rhodes “did not match” with the BCB on strategy or coaching style  11:57 AM ET Nazmul Hassan, president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, has come down heavily on Steve Rhodes‘ one-year tenure as coach of the national team. Hassan alleged that Rhodes did not seem serious enough about winning as a coach, did not push the players hard during a pre-World Cup preparation…

July 24, 2019
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Harry Gurney to return to Melbourne Renegades for 2018-19 BBL

11:23 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Harry Gurney, the English left-arm seamer, will return to the Big Bash this winter after signing up for another season at the Melbourne Renegades, where he won the title in his first year in the competition. Gurney, who played 12 white-ball internationals for England back in 2014, enjoyed a successful first season on the global T20 circuit last winter, playing for the Renegades, Quetta Gladiators…

July 24, 2019
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