4:57 PM ET Andrew Miller at Lord’s Test cricket is a shambles, and it is utterly compelling. There is no way on earth that a match that has lost five sessions to rain and hadn’t even reached the third innings until tea on the fourth day should be hurtling towards a position in which a

Will Somerville taps one through the off side © Getty Images Lunch Sri Lanka 267 and 0 for no loss need 268 runs to beat New Zealand 249 and 285 (Watling 77, Latham 45, Somerville 40, Embuldeniya 4-99) At the end of day three, with New Zealand’s lead at 177 with three wickets in hand,

3:20 PM ET Andrew Miller at Lord’s There were 24.1 overs possible on the third day at Lord’s. Enough time for a rapt crowd to be seduced by possibility as Australia resisted in the first hour then faltered in the next, to leave the balance of the innings – and by extension the match –

1:44 PM ET Daniel Brettig at Lord’s Lord’s day two, evening, 2009. The Oval, day two, afternoon, 2009. Lord’s, day two, afternoon, 2013. Durham, day four, evening, 2013. Edgbaston, day one, afternoon, 2015. Trent Bridge, day one, morning, 2015. Just six sessions over 10 years, but together they have been enough to more or less

9:38 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Eoin Morgan has hinted that he may step down as England’s white-ball captain due to a back injury. Morgan suffered a back spasm during the World Cup, leaving the field during the win against the West Indies in Southampton, and his training was limited throughout the tournament in order to

Niroshan Dickwella cuts © Getty Images Innings Sri Lanka 267 (Dickwella 61, Lakmal 40, Patel 5-89) lead New Zealand 249 by 18 runs After being ignored for the 2019 World Cup and then missing the cut for the ODI series at home against Bangladesh, Niroshan Dickwella proved his worth to the Test side with a

4:53 PM ET Andrew Miller at Lord’s Rory Burns believes that Jofra Archer will be looking forward to dishing out some of the medicine that he and his fellow tailenders received on the first day of action at Lord’s, after being welcomed to Test cricket by a fiery onslaught from Pat Cummins. Archer, who cranked

3:00 AM ET New Zealand 249 (Taylor 86, Dananjaya 5-80, Lakmal 4-29) v Sri Lanka The lower half of New Zealand’s batting order unravelled dramatically on the morning of day two, with the wicket of Ross Taylor setting in motion a collapse that cost them five wickets for 44 runs. Seam bowler Suranga Lakmal claimed

4:17 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The inaugural season of the Euro T20 Slam has been cancelled, just two weeks before the tournament had been scheduled to start. The tournament’s organisers released a statement saying that “the board of the Euro T20 Slam, funding partners and franchise owners of this exciting new T20 tournament have reluctantly

3:00 AM ET Lancashire 160 for 2 (Davies 75*) beat Northamptonshire 157 for 7 by eight wickets After the rare taste of defeat against Birmingham Bears, normal service resumed as Lancashire Lightning eased home with nine balls to spare on a night on which one sensed they would not have broken into a sweat even