News Exciting Lancashire quick joins Alex Hales and Sam Billings under new Thunder head coach Trevor Bayliss Sydney Thunder have snapped up England pace bowler Saqib Mahmood for the upcoming BBL with the Lancashire quick joining fellow Englishmen Alex Hales and Sam Billings under new Thunder coach Trevor Bayliss. Mahmood made his mark in England’s

News Prospect of boycott still on the cards as players await clarity on quarantine and bubble life The prospect of England fielding a significantly under-strength squad in the Ashes would appear to have grown following talks between the team and officials at the ECB. ESPNcricinfo understands that some members of the playing squad and some

News An artificial-intelligence-based stats query tool that can answer questions put to it in regular English Remember the stats scrapbook? The question is a giveaway to my vintage. How many of you will know how it was to keep track of cricket before ESPNcricinfo came along? I kept my own database: pages and pages of

Report Dwayne Bravo’s decision to bowl was justified by a superb collective bowling effort St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 181 for 3 (Lewis 77*, Gayle 42) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 178 for 9 (Hetmyer 45*, Jaggesar 2-19, Fawad 2-22) by seven wickets Coming off an unbeaten century in his last innings, Evin Lewis continued his

Opener Finn Allen was among the few batting positives for New Zealand in the recently concluded low-scoring T20I series in Bangladesh. While he missed the first two matches to complete his recovery from covid-19, he returned to make scores of 15, 12 and 41 in spin-friendly Dhaka surfaces. New Zealand’s stand-in coach Glenn Pocknall, who

Yorkshire 108 (Ballance 58, Norwell 4-27, Woakes 3-40) and 50 for 3 need a further 174 runs to beat Warwickshire 155 and 176 (Sibley 45, Thompson 5-52) If Warwickshire win the Championship, a little patch of earth at Headingley could become hallowed ground. It will be found at first slip at the Kirkstall Lane End

Play 01:45 Ellyse Perry excited by ‘complete’ Australia attack Teenage tearaway Darcie Brown is confident Australia’s young attack will step up in coming weeks as they prepare to confront India without spearhead Megan Schutt. Schutt, who last month celebrated the birth of her first child with wife Jess, and injured spinner Jess Jonassen are missing

News The BCCI president had earlier been quoted saying he wanted the match to be a standalone event The replacement match for the now-cancelled Manchester Test should be continuation of the five-match England-India Test series and not a one-off Test, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has clarified. India could not field a team in the series-decider

News Uganda were reduced from 153 for 1 to 186 for 6 as a result Cameroon fast bowler Maeva Douma, playing in the women’s T20 World Cup African region qualifier against Uganda in Gaborone on Sunday, got four of the opposition batters dismissed in a controversial – yet legal – mode of dismissal: run-out backing

Report Hampshire eke out first-innings foothold after choosing to bat in tricky conditions Nottinghamshire 29 for 1 trail Hampshire 226 (Gubbins 54, Hutton 3-40) by 197 runs Nick Gubbins will hope for many more untroubled days with Hampshire following his switch from Middlesex this season, but with a Championship at stake it’s particularly appropriate to