After an undefeated home summer, England’s greatest challenge will be keeping the good thing they’ve got going during what head coach Jon Lewis describes as a “tricky” time before launching their T20 World Cup campaign. England won 13 of their 14 fixtures – with a wash-out the only exception – against Pakistan and New Zealand during a home international season which is already over in mid-July, illustrating the volume of…
England 155 for 7 (Knight 46*, Jonas 4-22, Carson 2-35) beat New Zealand 135 for 8 (A Kerr 43, Bell 3-21, Dean 2-29, Kemp 2-31) by 20 runs After the fourth T20I against New Zealand, Heather Knight had declared England wanted to finish their home summer undefeated, and it took a timely captain’s knock to ensure it happened in the final game at Lord’s. Knight’s unbeaten 46 off 31 balls…
Lancashire 136 for 2 (Salt 70, Livingstone 54*) beat Nottinghamshire 131 for 7 (James 51, Wood 3-23) by eight wickets Lancashire became the second North Group side to qualify for the Vitality Blast quarter-finals, brushing struggling Nottinghamshire aside by eight wickets chasing 132 at Emirates Old Trafford as England duo Phil Salt and Liam Livingstone starred on their return to county action. Second-placed Lightning joined leaders Birmingham in progressing courtesy…
England U19 401 for 5 (Shaikh 107, Denly 91, Flintoff 82*, Fonseka 76) lead Sri Lanka U19 153 (Weerasinghe 77, Sharma 5-44) by 248 runs Hamza Shaikh played a true captain’s innings to put England firmly in control at the end of day two in the second Youth Men’s Test against Sri Lanka at Cheltenham. Displaying an admirable work ethic, sound temperament and no little skill, the Warwickshire batsman fashioned…
From Thursday, James Anderson will be perched up on the England balcony in the Trent Bridge pavilion, at the side of the ground that is due to be renamed “The Stuart Broad End” before the start of the first day’s play. Broad himself will be at the other end, on the ones-and-twos as part of the Sky commentary team. Meanwhile, out in the middle, sandwiched by the gaze of 355…
Ben Stokes is set to make his first appearance in the Hundred for three years this summer. ESPNcricinfo understands that he has been made available by the ECB to play the second half of the group stage for Northern Superchargers, where he will be coached by Andrew Flintoff. Stokes made two appearances for the Superchargers in the inaugural season of the Hundred in 2021 but has not played since taking…
The experienced trio of Udeshika Prabodhani, Achini Kulasuriya and Anushka Sanjeewani have been restored to Sri Lanka’s T20 squad, having been rested for the recent series against the West Indies, as Sri Lanka named their 15-member squad for the upcoming Women’s Asia Cup. The green pair of Rashmika Sewwandi and Imesha Dulani – the former yet to make her debut – unsurprisingly make way, while there’s also no room for…
West Indies’ batters will attempt to strike the right balance between defence and attack when they face up to England in the second Test at Trent Bridge, with the captain, Kraigg Brathwaite, saying that they have “to find a way” to put runs on the board. The tourists were bowled out for totals of 121 and 136 to lose by an innings at Lord’s, with no one in the top…
The big India vs Pakistan contest at the Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2024 will take place on the first day of the tournament – being played in Dambulla, Sri Lanka – itself. Here’s your ready reckoner for it. Match details India vs PakistanDambulla, July 19, 7.00pm local time India and Pakistan – recent form Let’s look at the last year for this one. India first, purely alphabetically. They have played…
Theo van Woerkom and George Dockrell made way for Humphreys and Hoey who have just one Test cap between them. Seamer Matthew Foster, who was part of the Ireland squad that had toppled Afghanistan for their first Test win in March earlier this year, also didn’t find a place in this squad. Humphreys had a tough initiation into Test cricket, conceding 67 runs in ten overs on debut against Sri…