9:54 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Darren Stevens will leave Kent at the end of the current season after 15 years with the club but has no intention of retiring from the professional game. Stevens, 43, joined Kent from Leicestershire in 2005 and has enjoyed an outstanding career with bat and ball, scoring 11,718 first-class runs and claiming 487 wickets for his second county. He is currently on loan to Derbyshire…
3:00 AM ET Middlesex 209 for 3 (Malan 117) beat Surrey 172 for 9 (Pope 47, Roland-Jones 4-35) by 37 runs The World Cup is over but the summer party has just begun, judging by the enthusiastic capacity crowd at The Oval, who watched Dawid Malan as the life and soul of Middlesex’s 37-run win over Surrey in their Vitality Blast match. It was one of those evenings to remind…
Tom Kohler-Cadmore made an immediate impact at the start of the white-ball season 3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Yorkshire 255 for 2 (Kohler-Cadmore 96) beat Leicestershire 201 by 54 runs Yorkshire Vikings finished just five runs short of matching their highest team total in Twenty20 matches as they defeated Leicestershire by 54 runs in the Vitality Blast North Group match at the Fischer County Ground. Led by an unbeaten…
4:03 PM ET Batsman and bowlers alike were left puzzled by a Southampton surface that seamed like a green top but dried out rapidly over day one of Australia’s lone Ashes warm-up while also providing variable bounce. A ledger of 201 for 17 across the day hardly depicted a batting paradise, but nor was it exactly the sort of slow, seaming surface that the tourists can be expected to face…
Could Ireland surprise a much-changed England? (1:58) The Switch Hit team look ahead to Ireland’s visit to Lord’s, where they’ll be hoping to upset an England side with one eye on The Ashes. (1:58) 3:16 PM ET George Dobell at Lord’s If Joe Root required any evidence about the dangers of burn-out, he will not need to have looked far for an example. The presence of Jonathan Trott, a member…
Jul 22, 2019 Paul Edwards Worcestershire232 for 6 (Whiteley 88, D’Oliveira 66*) trail Gloucestershire 354 (Smith 83, Higgins 76, Dent 58, Leach 6-79) by 122 runs Every moment one spends at Cheltenham is precious but no festival in recent years has been as rich in promise as that which currently garlands the College Ground. The six struck over point by Gareth Roderick to secure last week’s victory over Leicestershire already…
3:00 AM ET 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…
12:26 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Essex’s Mady Villiers has earned her first call-up to the England Women’s squad for the T20Is against Australia, as they look to save face after surrendering the Ashes in last week’s drawn Test in Taunton. Villiers, 20, made an unbeaten half-century for England’s Academy in the Australians’ Test warm-up match, and impressed with her resolve after coming in at No.9 to a scoreline of 89…
12:13 PM ET In a significant first, the BCCI has approved and recognised the Indian Cricketers’ Association (ICA), the official players’ body for former cricketers. Currently, the ICA is not affiliated to Federation of International Cricketers’ Association (FICA), and will be restricted to only former players – both men and women – unlike player associations in other major international countries, which include current players too. According to BCCI, the ICA,…
Play 01:58 Could Ireland surprise a much-changed England? William Porterfield has said that playing Test cricket at Lord’s will be “right up there, if not the pinnacle”, of Ireland’s journey to the top table of international cricket. While Ireland have faced England at Lord’s in a one-off ODI in 2017, their captain said on the eve of their third Test appearance that the opportunity to walk through the Long Room…