12:32 AM IST Yorkshire 264 and 259 for 7 (Bairstow 75, Lyth 50) lead Nottinghamshire 355 lead by 168 runs For cricketers with an abundance of talent batting is a deceptively straightforward business and Jonny Bairstow plays at his best when he remembers every word of that. Rather than grousing about whether he will keep

9:14 PM IST Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka’s domestic cricket season resumed on Monday with runs from Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews, almost five months after it was suspended due to Covid-19. Mendis hit 132 not out for Colombo Cricket Club and Mathews made 80 not out for Colts Cricket Club, in separate ‘Super Eights’

3:30 AM IST ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 199 and 2 for 0 trail Derbyshire 408 (Madsen 103, Hosein 66*, Reece 56, du Plooy 55) by 207 runs A Wayne Madsen century, the 31st of the South African’s first-class career and his fifth against Leicestershire, helped Derbyshire establish an intimidating first-innings lead of 209 on the

12:49 AM IST Nottinghamshire 355 (Moores 106, Mullaney 50) lead Yorkshire 264 by 91 runs Even on a dull, faintly sultry morning with summer momentarily elsewhere Trent Bridge exerts a rare magic. Many have noticed this but few have ceased to treasure it. And thus it was again at eleven o’clock on the second day

6:57 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ben Stokes will miss the rest of England’s Test series against Pakistan after withdrawing from the squad for family reasons. He is set to travel to New Zealand, where his parents live, next week and will not be available for the two behind-closed-doors Tests in Southampton. Stokes’ father Ged was

1:07 PM IST After almost a year of knocking on various doors for their grievances to be heard, 17 former BCCI scorers, whose services had been terminated last year without notice or any retirement benefits, have now formally approached their respective state association heads seeking some kind of relief. The scorers – those whose detailed

4:27 AM IST England 219 (Pope 62, Yasir 4-66) and 277 for 7 (Woakes 84*, Buttler 75, Yasir 4-99) beat Pakistan 326 (Masood 156, Azam 69, Broad 3-54) and 169 (Yasir 33, Broad 3-37) by three wickets A fighting century stand between Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler carried England to a stunning three-wicket victory over

7:00 PM IST The CWI board could be cut to nine members if governance reforms recommended by an independent task force are accepted. CWI currently features an 18-member board including 12 members put forward from the regional boards. But a task force, headed by Jamaican senator Don Wehby, has called for the board to be

11:40 AM IST Cricket Australia (CA) is willing to wait until much later into the year to make a decision on whether the Boxing Day Test against India will be staged at the MCG, and are currently “full steam ahead” with plans for the game to be in its traditional Melbourne home. The city is

3:49 AM IST Danyal Rasool After squandering much of the advantage following five sessions of gritty batsmanship, breathtaking pace, sublime swing and tricky spin bowling, you could have excused Pakistan’s spin-bowling coach for being somewhat miffed at what transpired in the final session. Mushtaq Ahmed, though, ever a ray of sunshine, insisted there was no