7:49 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Haseeb Hameed has been released by Lancashire, less than three years after making two fifties in six innings for England in India as a 19-year-old. Hameed made 31 and 82 on his Test debut in Rajkot in 2016, and immediately looked like the long-awaited replacement to Andrew Strauss at the
5:19 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Reacting to the bottom-place finishes in two of the last three IPL seasons, Royal Challengers Bangalore has decided to sack the existing coaching staff led by Gary Kirsten and Ashish Nehra. In their place, the RCB management has appointed Mike Hesson as director of cricket with Simon Katich, the former
3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 140 for 6 (Dhananjaya de Silva 30*, Dilruwan Perara 3*) v New Zealand Two double-wicket maidens by New Zealand’s seam-bowling duo of Trent Boult and Tim Southee bookended an opening session that left Sri Lanka struggling on the second day of the second Test. Sri Lanka had resumed on
12:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Heather Graham and Erin Burns received their maiden international call-ups, with Australia women naming a 14-member squad for the upcoming six-match limited-overs tour of the Caribbean, beginning on September 5. Senior batsman Elyse Villani and spin-bowling allrounder Sophie Molineux, who were both part of the victorious Ashes touring party last
3:00 AM ET Stumps Australia 179 (Labuschagne 74, Warner 61, Archer 6-45) v England Anyone watching his debut at Lord’s was left in little doubt as to what Jofra Archer brings to this England side, but his six-wicket haul rammed the message home all the same as Australia were bowled out for 179 on the
6:36 PM ET There was a revealing moment as Jofra Archer walked off the pitch having just completed the first five-wicket haul of his Test career. Thrown the ball by team-mates who recognised the significance of the occasion – there will, no doubt be more five-wicket hauls, but there will never be another first –
4:13 PM ET David Warner would have been happy to get out nicking any one of the multiple deliveries Stuart Broad sent fizzing past his outside edge on a difficult day for batting at Headingley, but admitted Australia now had a significant challenge ahead of them to defend 179 in conditions and weather that are
2:38 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Former South Africa allrounder Lance Klusener has been appointed as the team’s assistant batting coach for the T20I leg of their India tour next month. Former South Africa assistant coach Vincent Barnes has been named the assistant bowling coach, while former batsman Justin Ontong has been given the assistant fielding
12:37 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India’s current batting coach Sanjay Bangar is likely to lose his job to Vikram Rathour, while bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar are expected to retain their positions for another two years. India’s selection panel shortlisted three candidates each for all the support staff positions with Rathour,
11:46 AM ET George Dobell in Leeds James Anderson will step-up his bid to return to England’s Test team with another match for Lancashire Second XI next week. Anderson, who was forced out of the first Test of the Ashes series due to a calf injury, will feature in a four-day friendly fixture against Durham
11:36 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff R Ashwin‘s exclusion from India’s starting XI in the Antigua Test has left former captain Sunil Gavaskar stunned. This is now the fourth straight Test Ashwin has sat out of after missing the last three in Australia with injury. Ashwin did miss the first innings of the tour game with
11:09 AM ET Liam Brickhill Former Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka has died. Chingoka, who was 65, was one of the first black Zimbabweans to make his name in cricket, initially as a player and subsequently in administration. As a seamer and a useful lower-order batsman in his youth, Chingoka captained the South African African
3:00 AM ET Toss West Indies chose to bowl v India West Indies captain Jason Holder won the toss and elected to bowl after the toss was delayed by half an hour due to rain and wt outfield. The resulting damp conditions would not have affected India’s plans, captain Virat Kohli implied, when he said
9:30 AM ET Six months ago, Misbah ul Haq was playing for Peshawar Zalmi, a remarkable cricketing career that simply refused to end still going strong. He had backtracked in 2018 on his agreement with Islamabad United to be a mentor, instead going on to play for Peshawar Zalmi as a Gold Category player in
9:27 AM ET Somerset are hoping to complete the signing of Murali Vijay for the final few weeks of the county season. Somerset are chasing the first Championship title in their history. They are currently second in the Division One table, just two points behind Essex, with the teams scheduled to meet in the final
8:40 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Hampshire have signed Tabraiz Shamsi, the South African left-arm wristspinner, for the final four games of the Vitality Blast group stage. After a successful run thanks to the dual spin of Liam Dawson and Mason Crane, Hampshire’s Blast campaign has been derailed by injuries to Crane and back-up spinner Brad
Dilruwan Perera celebrates a breakthrough © Associated Press Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat v New Zealand Sri Lanka’s captain Dimuth Karunaratne won the toss and opted to bat in the second Test against New Zealand at the P Sara Oval after a persistent drizzle had wiped out the entire morning session. The hosts made
3:55 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowlers Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jansen have been added to the South Africa A squad for the four-day matches on their upcoming tour of India. Ngidi and Jansen were named in place of Beuran Hendricks and Anrich Nortje, who are part of the senior T20I squad that will take
2:23 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has indicated that India will go into the Antigua Test with the same combination that helped them pull off their first-ever Test-series win in Australia at the turn of the year. If this is the case, Rohit Sharma and Hanuma Vihari will most likely be contesting the No.
2:40 PM ET Melinda Farrell in Leeds There is a widely accepted theory that, in the wake of a traumatic or painful event, it is helpful to face a similar experience as soon as possible. Get caught in a rip while swimming in the ocean? Go to the beach the next day. Thrown from a
2:04 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The ECB have advertised for a new assistant coach for the senior England men’s team. While the role is, in effect, currently occupied by Paul Collingwood, he is employed on a consultancy basis and his contract expires after the final Test of the Ashes. He will be obliged to apply
1:36 PM ET George Dobell in Leeds If Joe Root required any reminder – and he almost certainly doesn’t – over the extent to which Ashes results tend to define careers in English cricket, he will have received it on Tuesday with the news of Mark Robinson‘s sacking as England’s women’s coach. It did not
10:40 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Leeds “Take back control” has been a pretty loaded phrase in this part of the world ever since its co-option by Dominic Cummings and the Vote Leave campaign that successfully won Britain’s EU referendum in 2016. It is also a highly relevant one to Australia’s Ashes campaign, which began
7:54 AM ET Jason Roy has come through a concussion test following a blow to the head while batting in the nets on Tuesday, but will be assessed once more before he is cleared to play in the third Ashes Test at Headingley. Roy sustained a blow directly on the stem guard when facing throwdowns
3:00 AM ET Big picture After eight consecutive Ashes Tests without a win, England come to Headingley full of confidence, while Australia, who can retain the urn with one win in the next three, are on the ropes. Welcome to Test cricket in 2019, where conventional wisdom is inverted. The mood around the respective teams
Imran Khan wants provincial teams to form the core of domestic cricket in Pakistan © Getty Images The government of Pakistan formally notified the new PCB constitution with certain amendments, toning down the powers of its own patron-in-chief. This is the fourth time in the last 12 years that the PCB constitution has been redrafted.
8:00 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Leeds David Warner shapes to defend Mitchell Starc, misses, and the plastic stumps in the Headingley nets go flying. All manner of dismissals take place in the nets, real or imagined depending on the fields “set” by the bowler or throw-downer, but few quite so dramatic. The moment rather
7:02 AM ET Dimuth Karunaratne, Sri Lanka’s relatively new captain, doesn’t ride players hard, doesn’t tear them down for taking aggressive options, and when criticism is required, he ensures it’s constructive. Perhaps this is all a bit sappy, but it is the feedback from several members of this Sri Lanka dressing room. Thisara Perera spoke
6:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff England will play 18 games in their 2020 home summer against four different opponents, the ECB confirmed on Wednesday. The home summer begins later than usual, with the first of three Tests against West Indies starting at The Oval on June 4. They will then play three T20Is and three
3:00 AM ET Big Picture Chaos has been a constant in Sri Lankan cricket in 2019. Captaincy change – check; coach sacking – check; interim committee – check; sports ministry interference – check; contract terminations – check. Yet, quite incredibly, Sri Lanka are on a three-match winning streak in Tests, on the verge of consecutive