3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Gloucestershire 172 for 7 (Salter 4-12) tied with Glamorgan 172 for 5 (Fakhar 58) Glamorgan’s Andrew Salter returned the superb figures of 4 for 12 in three overs, including a first-ball wicket and three more in the space of seven deliveries, but AJ Tye battled back for Gloucestershire to seal
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10:16 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, has said that the absence of cricket from state schools is “nowhere near good enough” as the governing body looks to capitalise on the “inspirational moment that can spark that interest in the game” provided by the World Cup final. Speaking to Sky during
4:02 AM ET Andrew McGlashanDeputy editor, ESPNcricinfo Close Deputy Editor Andrew arrived at ESPNcricinfo via Manchester and Cape Town, after finding the assistant editor at a weak moment as he watched England’s batting collapse in the Newlands Test. Andrew began his cricket writing as a freelance covering Lancashire during 2004 when they were relegated in
3:00 AM ET England 139 for 5 (Winfield 26*, Brunt 25*) beat Australia 122 for 8 (Perry 60*, Brunt 3-21, Ecclestone 3-22) by 17 runs England have denied Australia a limited-overs whitewash with a consolation 17-run victory in the third T20I, the final encounter of their Ashes series, having finally struck on a successful combination
12:19 PM ET Lord’s may have to give up one of two bilateral Test matches it is scheduled to host in 2021 if the ICC is to get its wish for a showpiece World Test Championship (WTC) final at an iconic venue after the fashion of the Centenary Tests of 1977 and 1980. Those matches,
Play 00:48 Ashes not about redemption for Smith, Warner – Langer Australia have traded off the breakup of the fast bowling “big three” by selling Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood the idea that spreading the workload among more pacemen will extend their careers, with the captain Tim Paine declaring his team have been
5:01 PM ET England must “hit the ground running” if they are to regain the Ashes, Ben Stokes believes. England boast an outstanding record at Edgbaston, the venue for the first Test. They have won 11 international matches in succession at the ground and haven’t been beaten by Australia in any format there since 2001.
7:34 AM ET Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is a freelance cricket journalist. @mroller98 The Hundred team based at Cardiff could be known as “Western Fire” rather than “Welsh Fire”, in an appeal to Gloucestershire and Somerset’s fans, ESPNcricinfo can reveal. Sports law firm Onside Law, the ECB’s primary legal advisor, has submitted a trademark
4:21 AM ET Liam Brickhill The interim committee running Zimbabwe Cricket has issued a statement instructing all employees, apart from the board originally suspended by the Sports and Recreation Commission last month, to report for work on Thursday or face “legal” and “disciplinary consequences”. This is not the first time that the SRC and ZC’s
6:22 PM ET Alex Malcolm Cricket Australia has opted not to reprise a fully-fledged home and away domestic men’s 50-over competition in 2019-20 as the format continues to feel the squeeze in the summer schedule. However, CA has placed a priority on playing more 50-over domestic games on international-sized grounds in order to better replicate