1:37 PM ET George Dobell Yorkshire could be set to lose another player with Jack Brooks understood to be in talks with Somerset. Yorkshire have already seen Liam Plunkett join Surrey and look destined to lose Adil Rashid and perhaps Alex Lees as well. Durham are the only club to publicly express an interest in
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shares Ishant Sharma has earned a demerit point and a fine of 15% of his match fee for his send-off to Dawid Malan in England’s second innings at Edgbaston. The Level 1 offence violated Article 2.1.7 of ICC’s code of conduct, which relates to “using language, actions or gestures which disparage or which could
3:00 AM ET Nepal 216 (Kami 61, Khadka 51, Klaassen 3-38) beat Netherlands 215 (Barresi 71, Lamichhane, 3-41) by one run Paras Khadka drives Pieter Seelaar over long-on for six during his maiden ODI fifty Peter Della Penna A crucial 61 off 46 balls from Sompal Kami was followed by a game-changing spell of legspin by
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Worcestershire 195 for 7 (Whiteley 60) beat Durham 194 for 7 (Latham 78) by three wicketsScorecard Ross Whiteley smashed 60 off 26 balls as Worcestershire Rapids gained a dramatic three-wicket win over leaders Durham Jets in a Vitality Blast thriller at New Road. He rescued a game which appeared
6:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli is not convinced his epic 149 against England at Edgbaston is his best Test innings. It was Kohli’s first Test century in England – he had had a torrid time on his only other visit in 2014 – and it helped pull India back into the Test after
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Kent 191 for 4 (Billings 56*) beat Essex 163 (Bopara 42, Milne 4-15) by 28 runsScorecard Despite dropping four catches in a sloppy fielding display Kent moved into second place in the Vitality Blast T20 South Group following their 28-run win over basement side Essex in Canterbury. England white-ball
9:07 AM ET India managed to see out the opening spells of England’s Big Two – James Anderson and Stuart Broad – but instead lost three top-order wickets in a hurry to the 20-year-old Sam Curran. Here’s a little bit more on one of the newer faces in England’s Test side Curran…there’s another of those,
5:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin has consciously worked on deceiving batsmen in the air over the last 18 months. He revealed this in a chat with India’s bowling coach Bharat Arun on bcci.tv after picking up four wickets on the opening day of the Edgbaston Test. Varying his speeds, he observed, has also
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 129 for 6 (Hammond 35, Rashid 2-14) beat Sussex 127 for 8 (Evans 46, Payne 2-15) by four wicketsScorecard Gloucestershire returned to the top of the South Group after scrambling to a four-wicket win over Sussex Sharks in the Vitality Blast at Hove. A slow pitch was perfect
1:00 PM ET George Dobell England have not given up hope that Ben Stokes could be available for the second Test starting at Lord’s on August 9. Stokes is due in court in Bristol on August 6 – the day after the Edgbaston Test is scheduled to finish – to face a charge of affray