Aug 8, 2020 ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 33 for 0 trail Durham 180 (Lees 66, Gleeson 3-32) by 147 runs Lancashire finished on top at the end of day one of their Bob Willis Trophy match against Durham after bowling out the home side for 180 at Emirates Riverside. Richard Gleeson was the standout bowler
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11:54 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Warwickshire 230 for 8 (Lamb 65) lead Gloucestershire 210 (Hannon-Dalby 6-33) by 20 runs Matt Lamb top-scored with 65 as Warwickshire were made to battle hard for a first-innings lead on the second day of the Bob Willis Trophy match with Gloucestershire at the Bristol County Ground. Going in
12:09 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Somerset 166 (Sanderson 5-28) and 222 (J Overton 68, C Overton 53, Sanderson 4-61, Berg 4-64) beat Northamptonshire 67 (C Overton 4-12, Davey 3-23) and 154 (Vasconcelos 52, J Overton 4-26, Brooks 4-40) by 167 runs A maximum of 120 overs was deemed a sensible first-innings limit to protect
6:57 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes will miss the rest of England’s Test series against Pakistan after withdrawing from the squad for family reasons. He is set to travel to New Zealand, where his parents live, next week and will not be available for the two behind-closed-doors Tests in Southampton. Stokes’ father Ged was
1:07 PM IST After almost a year of knocking on various doors for their grievances to be heard, 17 former BCCI scorers, whose services had been terminated last year without notice or any retirement benefits, have now formally approached their respective state association heads seeking some kind of relief. The scorers – those whose detailed
4:06 AM IST In another era, an era in which England didn’t have one of the best all-rounders or swing bowlers in their history, Chris Woakes may have played a hundred Tests and be something of a household name. He’s won more World Cups than Sir Ian Botham, after all. He’s made more Test centuries
7:31 PM IST The CWI board could be cut to nine members if governance reforms recommended by an independent task force are accepted. CWI currently features an 18-member board including 12 members put forward from the regional boards. But a task force, headed by Jamaican senator Don Wehby, has called for the board to be
11:40 AM IST Cricket Australia (CA) is willing to wait until much later into the year to make a decision on whether the Boxing Day Test against India will be staged at the MCG, and are currently “full steam ahead” with plans for the game to be in its traditional Melbourne home. The city is
3:49 AM IST Danyal Rasool After squandering much of the advantage following five sessions of gritty batsmanship, breathtaking pace, sublime swing and tricky spin bowling, you could have excused Pakistan’s spin-bowling coach for being somewhat miffed at what transpired in the final session. Mushtaq Ahmed, though, ever a ray of sunshine, insisted there was no
9:06 PM IST Shakib Al Hasan‘s return to international cricket is slowly starting to take shape with his mentor Nazmul Abedeen telling ESPNcricinfo that the Bangladesh allrounder is preparing to undergo a full-fledged training camp at his alma mater, the BKSP facility in Savar. Currently under a one-year suspension by the ICC for failing to