8:17 AM ET Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has questioned the team management’s decision to drop opener Shikhar Dhawan for the second Test against England at Lord’s. Gavaskar asked what the “criteria” for dropping Dhawan were, when the left-hander had made nearly as many runs as M Vijay and KL Rahul combined in the first
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3:00 AM ET Jamaica Tallawahs 225 for 6 (Russell 121*, Lewis 51, Ali Khan 3-24) beat Trinbago Knight Riders 223 for 6 (Munro 61, McCullum 56, Russell 3-38) by four wickets Andre Russell gears up to play a shot Cricket Australia When Ali Khan took three wickets inside the first three overs to reduce Jamaica Tallawahs
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Nottinghamshire 212 for 5 (Moores 80*, Libby 58) beat Yorkshire 149 for 7 (Kohler-Cadmore 72, Willey 30, Gurney 3-24) by 63 runsScorecard A thrilling century stand between Tom Moores and Jake Libby returned Notts Outlaws to winning ways in their crucial Vitality Blast match against Yorkshire Vikings. Both youngsters
shares Aaron Lilley raced to a T20 career best © Getty Images Lancashire 185 for 4(Brown 51, Lilley 47) beat Yorkshire 181 for 9 by six wicketsScorecard Yorkshire’s coach Andrew Gale chose the build-up to the Roses T20 at Headingley to say that “all the criticism does is drive me to get out of
3:00 AM ET Guyana Amazon Warriors 148 for 4 (Hetmyer 79*, Green 25*, Lamichhane 2-12) beat St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 146 for 5 (Gayle 86, Paul 2-16) by six wickets Shimron Hetmyer (left) turned the match Guyana’s way when he punished Alzarri Joseph for 20 runs off three legal balls to start the fifth
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 242 for 4 (Cockbain 123, Klinger 44) beat Middlesex 172 for 6 (Eskinazi 51, Noema-Barnett 3-18) by 70 runsScorecard Ian Cockbain hit his maiden T20 century and the second highest score ever by a Gloucestershire batsman in the competition as Middlesex were put to the sword in a
4:05 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The Supreme Court of India has approved the new constitution of the BCCI, based on the Lodha Committee’s recommendations to restructure the board, but set aside some measures that would have radically altered cricket administration in the country. Among the Lodha recommendations that have not been accepted in the board’s
11:40 PM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando With six overs left in the rain-hit fourth ODI, the ball was wet, and South Africa were ahead of the game, with 43 runs to get, and five wickets in hand. So what did Sri Lanka do? They bowled as if they were playing a Test. It sounds like
3:00 AM ET South Africa opt to bowl v Sri Lanka Junior Dala appeals for Rohit Sharma’s wicket BCCI Quinton de Kock, in his first match as captain, has already done what his injured predecessor Faf du Plessis was not able to do this series – win the toss. He chose to chase under lights in
7:43 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Harsha de Silva has been appointed Sri Lanka women’s head coach, reprising the role he had performed between 2010 and 2013. De Silva’s term is for two years, and he officially begins on August 15, several weeks before India women’s forthcoming tour of the island. The other major assignment on