Yashasvi Jaiswal and Asitha Fernando have each been fined 25% of their match fee and given one demerit point after making head contact on the opening day of the second Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo. The Jaiswal Asitha Fernando flashpoint left both men in breach of Article 2.12 of the ICC code […]
The England squad reassembles in London on Monday morning, two training days out from a Lord’s Test they lead 1-0, and the first question waiting for them has nothing to do with Pakistan’s seamers. Brydon Carse was due to link back up with the group having spent Saturday night in handcuffs on a Derby street, […]
Fifty-five overs and two balls. On the fourth afternoon at Taunton, with Essex refusing to fold and a target still to be knocked off, Somerset gave Jack Leach the ball and then more or less left him there. The 35-year-old left-armer bowled, and bowled again, and kept dropping it on the same tiring length until […]
The video is only a few seconds long, and on its own it says almost nothing. A cluster of police officers on a Derby street, a tall fast bowler with his arms behind his back, a team-mate leaning in to talk to him, and — just visible over a shoulder — Ben Stokes, hours after […]
Chris Woakes and Olly Hannon-Dalby played out 13 dot balls at Edgbaston on Saturday evening before Woakes finally scrambled the run that separated Warwickshire from Sussex. One wicket in hand, a target of 203 on a pitch where only one batter had passed fifty in the first three innings, and two fellow title contenders trading […]
Mitchell Starc bowled the first ball of Bangladesh’s second innings in Mackay with a Test series to save, and by tea it was over. Australia’s left-armer added 4 for 39 to the 6 for 12 he had taken on Saturday, finished with match figures of 10 for 51, and Nathan Lyon took two wickets in […]
Marcus Trescothick got the start every interim coach dreams of and then spent his media duties talking about somebody else. England had just beaten Pakistan by an innings and 103 runs in the first Test at Headingley, a win wrapped up inside three rain-shortened days, and the questions put to the stand-in head coach were […]
The Derbyshire members who paid in at the OurCoop County Ground on Saturday came to watch a promotion six-pointer and stayed to watch a demolition. Ben Stokes, two months into retirement from international cricket, hit an unbeaten 66 from 55 balls in the morning, then took three wickets in four balls after tea and finished […]
Headingley had barely emptied on Friday before the celebration curdled into a grievance. England had just beaten Pakistan by an innings and 103 runs inside three days, a seventh consecutive Test win in Leeds, and the obvious question was waiting for Joe Root: why will his side not be back here for the Ashes? The […]
Mitchell Starc needed 22 balls for the first five and ten overs for the lot: Starc six wickets for 12 runs, and Bangladesh bowled out for 64 on the opening day of the second Test at Mackay. ESPNcricinfo’s Mohammad Isam reported that the innings lasted only 34 overs and was finished less than an hour […]
Mitchell Starc needed 22 balls for the first five and ten overs for the lot: Starc six wickets for 12 runs, and Bangladesh bowled out for 64 on the opening day of the second Test at Mackay. ESPNcricinfo’s Mohammad Isam reported that the innings lasted only 34 overs and was over less than an hour […]
Jofra Archer took the final wicket at 3.38pm on Friday and Headingley made the sort of noise it had been storing up all week. Pakistan’s last man was gone, Joe Root gathered his side in the middle of his home ground, and England beat Pakistan in the first Test by an innings and 103 runs […]
