3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 124 for 4 (Horton 50) lead Durham 117 (Wright 5-30) by seven runs Leicestershire’s seamers bowled outstandingly to dismiss Durham for just 117, their lowest score of the season, after the visitors had won the toss and chosen to bat first in the Specsavers County Championship match at the Fischer County Ground. Chris Wright was the pick of the attack, picking up 5…
3:00 AM ET Surrey 244 for 6 (Elgar 63, Foakes 57*) v Kent The walls alongside the staircase inside the Oval pavilion are decorated with framed photographs of Surrey’s capped players. There, side-by-side a few yards from the Prince of Wales room on the second floor, hang pictures of two batsmen honoured in 2014, both with hair flicked back, both moustachioed, both now England players. And soon, perhaps, Test match…
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3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 59 for 2 trail Middlesex 172 (Shaw 4-33) by 113 runs Josh Shaw returned his best figures of the season as Gloucestershire gained the upper hand by bowling Middlesex out on the opening day of their County Championship clash. The 23-year-old paceman finished with 4 for 33 as the home side were dismissed for just 172 at Merchant Taylors’ School, with former Middlesex…
2:14 PM ET Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo Take early wickets. It’s an obvious goal, one that is frequently offered ahead of any match. But, as they head for Edgbaston to face England in their semi-final, Australia know that breaking the opening partnership of Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy is likely to be key to any possibility of reaching the final. When Australia beat England…
Sam Hain works into the leg side © Getty Images Warwickshire 198 for 3 (Yates 91, Hain 68*) trail Hampshire 539 (Stone 5-93) by 341 runs Teenager Rob Yates fell nine runs of his maiden first-class century as Warwickshire battled hard to eat into Hampshire’s huge first-innings total of 539. Top order batsman Yates, who only signed his first professional deal last December, showed maturity which belied his age to…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Northamptonshire 334 for 5 (Bavuma 103, Vasconcelos 77, Rossington 76*) v Lancashire Temba Bavuma made his first century in county cricket as Northamptonshire enjoyed a fabulous opening day against Lancashire at Wantage Road. Bavuma’s 103 lit up the afternoon as Northants closed 334 for 5. Bavuma had only made one half-century in 11 innings before this match but played with pleasant fluency to reach…
3:00 AM ET Ireland 191 for 4 (McCollum 54, Porterfield 49) beat Zimbabwe 190 all out (Williams 67, Murtagh 3-39) by six wickets James McCollum‘s second fifty of the series, and a nuggety 49 from captain William Porterfield, took Ireland to an historic six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in Stormont. Following on from his fifty in Ireland’s series-sealing win on Thursday, McCollum set up Ireland’s pursuit of Zimbabwe’s 190 with 54…
3:00 AM ET Essex 122 for 3 (Westley 52*) trail Yorkshire 208 (Harmer 5-76) by 86 runs If any county had a right to come to Chelmsford this season with preconceptions about the frenzied cricket that was surely bound to ensue it was Yorkshire. They managed to collapse to 50 all out here last year, an experience so maddening for their coach, Andrew Gale, that he reflected this week that…
1:50 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Mark Robinson, England women’s head coach, admitted his team “had no answers” to the onslaught from Australia’s new-ball pair after being blown away for 75 in the third ODI. A 194-run defeat at Canterbury has left England 6-0 down in the Women’s Ashes and needing to virtually win every match to reclaim the trophy. Ellyse Perry starred with 7 for 22 – record figures for…