Sussex 319 for 4 (Alsop 118*) vs Leicestershire Sussex made 319 for four and Tom Alsop an unbeaten 118 but the attention was inevitably on Steven Smith, whose Ashes warm-up again failed to ignite as his temporary employer’s LV= Insurance County Championship match against Leicestershire began a day late at the Uptonsteel County Ground. Australia’s

The roster for the UAE series, which will form part of the preparations for the qualifiers and will be played in Sharjah, also includes four uncapped players – left-hand batter Alick Athanaze, as well as allrounders Kavem Hodge, Dominic Drakes and Akeem Jordan. “Paul is a three-dimensional player, who can bowl the new ball effectively,

Durham 42 for 2 (Borthwick 21*, Potts 2*) trail Yorkshire 254 (Masood 44, Potts 4-49) by 212 runs If Shan Masood was under any illusions about the size of his task as he belatedly assumed the captaincy of Yorkshire, his Pakistan duties over at least for the time being, he will be wised up now

At Royals, Chahal forged a strong partnership with R Ashwin and then also with fellow legspinner Adam Zampa this season. In the era of quick wristspin and mystery spin, Chahal has showed that there is still a place for old-school legspin in T20 cricket. He has played fewer IPL matches than Piyush Chawla, Amit Mishra,

Chennai Super Kings 167 for 8 (Dube 25, Marsh 3-18) beat Delhi Capitals 140 for 8 (Rossouw 35, Pathirana 3-37, Chahar 2-28) by 27 runs An all-round effort from Chennai Super Kings helped them trounce Delhi Capitals by 27 runs at Chepauk, helping the four-time champions get one step closer towards the IPL playoffs. CSK’s

Played 11, Points 10, NRR 0.388Rem mat: KKR (a), RCB (h), PBKS (a) Played 11, Points 10, NRR -0.079Rem mat: RR (h), CSK (a), LSG (h) Both Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders are identically placed with 11 points from 10 games, but in terms of momentum, they are at very different places in their

Northern Diamonds 178 for 7 (Kalis 66*, Winfield-Hill 45) beat South East Stars 223 (Dunkley 101*, Woolston 5-37) by three wickets (DLS method) England batter Sophia Dunkley‘s fifth senior century recovered South East Stars from 55 for 5 batting first but could not prevent the Northern Diamonds from winning an entertaining Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy

Trent Boult still has “a big desire” to represent New Zealand at the 50-over World Cup in India later this year, and remains hopeful that he will add to his 78 Test caps. Boult was released from his central contract last August at his own request in order to spend more time with his family

Pat Cummins admits he was “burnt out” by the relentless nature of the cricket schedule when he returned from a frustrating run of injuries early in his international career. In his first interview since leaving India midway through Australia’s tour in February to spend time with his dying mother, the Test and ODI captain declared

He doesn’t have any injury concerns, and isn’t bowling for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2023 only because of the surfeit of allrounders in the team, Shardul Thakur said on Tuesday. “We have a side full of allrounders with [Andre] Russell, Sunil [Narine]… we have got maximum of eight bowling options that also includes Nitish