Former England seamer and World Cup winner Anya Shrubsole has confirmed her impending retirement from professional cricket after claiming the Player of the Match award in Southern Vipers’ Charlotte Edwards Cup success. Shrubsole, 31, called time with England at the start of the 2022 summer and has now decided that this will be her final

Lancashire 139 for 1 (Salt 76*, Balderson 51) trail Hampshire 142 (Barker 44, Williams 3-14, Bailey 3-29) by three runs It was not until early afternoon on the opening day of this match that bashful sunlight finally replaced stubborn haze but no one except Hampshire’s top order seemed put out by the tardiness. Summer arrived

There is surely nothing more Scott Boland can do to become one of the first-choice names in Australia’s attack. So far throughout his stellar eight-match career, which has brought 33 wickets at 14.57, Boland’s opportunities have all come because of the absence of others. However, in the aftermath of securing the World Test Championship final

The PCB’s proposed hybrid model for the Asia Cup is likely to be approved by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), with Sri Lanka as the neutral venue where India can play their games. The model sees four – and possibly five – of the tournament’s 13 games being played in Pakistan. All the India-Pakistan games

Alick Athanaze has admitted to being nervous before making his international debut, but he shook it off quickly and went onto make it a memorable one by slamming the joint-fastest half-century on ODI debut. Athanaze’s 65 off 45 balls, including 51 which came in the powerplay alone, set the tone for West Indies’ successful chase

Toss: UAE opted to bat vs West Indies UAE won the toss and opted to take first strike in the third ODI in Sharjah in their quest to avert a 3-0 sweep. Having already wrapped up the series, West Indies made a number of changes, including resting their designated captain Shai Hope. Allrounder Roston Chase

Kent 180 for 4 (Bell-Drummond 89) beat Hampshire 177 for 7 (Weatherley 67, McDermott 57) by six wickets The general mood around the Spitfire Ground was one of contentment heading into the visit of Hampshire, if only because it was Friday night and the sun was shining. Five defeats on the bounce, most recently here

Yorkshire 224 for 4 (Wharton 111*, Malan 79) vs Worcestershire 198 for 6 (Kashif 48*, Thompson 4-34) by 26 runs Centurion James Wharton and England star Dawid Malan shared 159 for the second wicket – Yorkshire’s all-time highest T20 partnership – as part of a high-scoring Vitality Blast 26-run victory for the Vikings over Worcestershire

Sri Lanka’s dalliance with Angelo Mathews in ODIs appears to have been short-lived after the veteran was left out from the 15-man squad set to fly out to Zimbabwe for the World Cup Qualifier later this month. Mathews had been recalled to the ODI side ahead of Sri Lanka’s tour of New Zealand earlier this

Learning to construct a 50-over innings was Tristan Stubbs‘ chief takeaway from South Africa A’s series victory over Sri Lanka A, which was completed with a five-wicket win in Kandy. Stubbs was South Africa A’s highest run-scorer, and the only one to record two half-centuries, and hopes the experience will put him in good stead