Toss India chose to bowl vs England Rohit Sharma chose to bowl in the first ODI at The Kia Oval, as England welcomed back their Test-match big guns of Joe Root, Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow, just as India prepared to make do without their own grandest name. Virat Kohli will sit out this match

Big picture If the three T20Is were any indication, the ODI series promises to be a thrill-a-minute ride. England have built a reputation of going hard from the get-go in both white-ball formats, and India, who have traditionally been known to build their innings methodically before going big in the death overs, also took the

If England had sent Emma Lamb in to bat at any position, she reckons she would have tried to grab her chance with both hands. That the opportunity came knocking in her favoured opener’s role and resulted in a century as England swept South Africa aside by five wickets in their opening ODI made it

Mark Boucher, South Africa’s head coach, believes that other teams will try to play Test cricket using England’s new ultra-attacking approach after seeing their success under Brendon McCullum, but has cautioned that ‘Bazball’ may only work in favourable batting conditions. England have chased fourth-innings targets in excess of 250 in each of their first four

Lunch Sri Lanka 499 for 8 (Chandimal 153*, Jayasuriya 0*) lead Australia 364 by 135 runs Dinesh Chandimal pushed Sri Lanka’s lead to hefty proportions on the fourth morning in Galle as Australia’s hopes of being able to overhaul a deficit and take advantage of bowling last slimmed. Chandimal brought up his 150 from 281

Virat Kohli played nine balls in two innings in this T20I series against England. He attempted boundaries off five of them. Two of them resulted in vintage Kohli boundaries – a four over wide mid-on and a six straight down the ground, but the other three got him out twice. On the evidence of Kohli’s

50 overs Ireland 300 for 9 (Tector 113, Campher 43, Ferguson 2-44, Sodhi 2-62) vs New Zealand A day after the Irish rugby team upset the All Blacks in Dunedin, the Irish cricket team threatened to pull off something similar against the Black Caps in Malahide. Harry Tector converted his fourth successive half-century in ODI

Big picture West Indies winning the T20Is against Bangladesh earlier this week was good news for their fans, but the style and chutzpah coming back is what they want as the tour goes into the ODI leg from Sunday. Bangladesh have had a forgettable tour so far, having lost both the Tests and T20I series

Somerset 265 for 5 (Rossouw 93, Banton 73) beat Derbyshire 74 (Siddle 3-10, Green 3-17) by 191 runs “Carnage,” was how Rilee Rossouw described it and he was not exaggerating. It was a perfect night for batting at Taunton – a glinting summer’s evening, an inviting batting pitch and a Derbyshire bowling attack that ultimately

Sri Lanka 184 for 2 (Kusal Mendis 84*, Karunaratne 86) trail Australia 364 (Smith 145*, Labuschagne 104, Jayasuriya 6-118) by 180 runs There needed to be no reminder of the bigger, and far more important, picture playing out in Sri Lanka but on a day of extraordinary scenes around the country the cricketers managed to