Yorkshire snare final wicket with minutes to spare to defeat Surrey

3:00 AM ET Yorkshire 327 (Fraine 106, Clark 5-77) and 352 (Lyth 68) beat Surrey 362 (Stoneman 100) and 194 (Elgar 71) by 123 runs With only five minutes to spare, an enthralled crowd fearing the worst, and the only sound across North Marine Road coming from a lone seagull, Yorkshire finally broke Surrey’s resistance to claim victory in a Championship encounter that built gradually into one of the most…

July 3, 2019
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Joe Clarke to learn fate at disciplinary hearing on Thursday

July 3, 2019

Joe Clarke drives © Getty Images Troubled Nottinghamshire batsman Joe Clarke is expected to learn on Thursday what punishment, if any, he will face from the ECB over his role in the infamous WhatsApp messaging group that came to light during the trial of his jailed former Worcestershire team-mate Alex Hepburn. Clarke is due to appear before the independent Cricket Discipline Commission to answer charges that he brought cricket into…

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Dawid Malan falls one run shy of double ton as Middlesex draw at Derbyshire

Jul 2, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 436 for 6 dec (Malan 177*, Simpson 99*) trail Derbyshire 557 for 6 dec (du Plooy 118, Dal 92) by 121 runs Dawid Malan kept himself in Ashes contention with a batting master-class to blunt Derbyshire’s victory hopes against Middlesex at Derby. The Middlesex skipper played superbly to score an unbeaten 177 to take his side past the 408 follow-on target as the…

July 3, 2019
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Bairstow, Wood put England in semi-finals

Bairstow hits back-to-back hundreds (1:45) Jonny Bairstow hit a century for the second game running to put England in a great position against New Zealand. (1:45) 3:00 AM ET England 305 for 8 (Bairstow 106, Roy 60) beat New Zealand 186 (Latham 57, Wood 3-34) by 119 runsAs it happened This was not quite how England had dreamed of making the World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1992….

July 3, 2019
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Marnus Labuschagne reaches second ton of match as Glamorgan draw with Worcestershire

Jul 2, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 449 and 137 for 1 (Labuschagne 90*) lead Worcestershire 370 (D’Oliveira 103) by 216 runs Marnus Labuschagne saw off (in Glamorgan’s eyes at least) rival claims on behalf of Warwickshire’s Dom Sibley in the race to reach 1,000 first-class runs this season, so becoming the first Glamorgan batsman to achieve that particular feat since Steve James in 1997. His achievements this season were…

July 3, 2019
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Dominic Sibley reaches 244 as bat dominates ball and Warwickshire share spoils with Kent

Jul 2, 2019 Warwickshire 400 for 3 (Sibley 207*, Rhodes 109) trail Kent 585 for 7 dec (Bell-Drummond 166, Dickson 161) by 185 runs Warwickshire’s Dominic Sibley‘s found claims that he had become the first batsman to reach 1,000 first-class runs for the season put under scrutiny as Glamorgan’s Marnus Labuschagne also laid claim to the honour. But what was abundantly clear was that Sibley – like Labuschagne – underlined…

July 3, 2019
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Essex accept Somerset challenge, which could come down to final-round clash

Jul 2, 2019 Nottinghamshire 213 and 100 for 5 trail Essex 519 for 9 dec. (Browne 163*, Bopara 135, Lawrence 64) by 206 runs Confidence runs high in this Essex team, who will surely extend their bubbling run to five wins in six matches here against a Nottinghamshire team whose morale is at the other end of the spectrum. Their day had begun with a disappointment of sorts as Nick…

July 3, 2019
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Somerset become the hunted after mammoth win over Hampshire

3:00 AM ET Matt Roller at Taunton Somerset 408 (Hildreth 105, Abbott 6-84) and 358 for 8 dec (Ali 79, Banton 70, Abell 58) beat Hampshire 349 (Northeast 101, J Overton 5-70) and 104 (Leach 3-14) by 313 runs Somerset are used to being the hunters in the County Championship. They have regularly been in and around title contention in the top flight in the past decade – and have…

July 3, 2019
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Chamari Atapattu replaces injured Sophie Devine at Loughborough Lightning

8:09 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sri Lanka captain Chamari Atapattu will play for Loughborough Lightning at the 2019 Kia Super League (KSL). She replaces the injured New Zealand allrounder Sophie Devine, who was earlier retained by the franchise. Atapattu joins West Indies’ Hayley Matthews and South Africa’s Mignon du Preez as part of the overseas contingent. Atapattu, the 29-year-old batting allrounder, will be the fourth Asian representative at the KSL…

July 3, 2019
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