7:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli often speaks about doing whatever it takes to win. He says that’s how he is able to bat on even when he is running on empty and the same philosophy had led to him fielding 38 different Test XIs at the start of his Test captaincy. It appears

3:00 AM ET England 67 and 156 for 3 (Root 75*, Denly 50) trail Australia 179 and 246 (Labuschagne 80) by 202 runs Josh Hazlewood beat Joe Root‘s bat by a lick of paint with a ball that buzzed outside off stump just inside the last hour of yet another dramatic day of this Ashes

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Sussex 172 for 2 (Evans 52*, Wright 48) beat Middlesex 171 for 5 (Morgan 47, Hafeez 48) by eight wickets Laurie Evans‘ second half-century of the T20 campaign saw Sussex canter to an eight-wicket victory over Middlesex at Uxbridge. Evans plundered three sixes and four fours, reaching his half-century

4:58 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Angelo Mathews and Thisara Perera are among the most high-profile omissions from Sri Lanka’s squad for the upcoming T20I series against New Zealand, along with the likes of Suranga Lakmal and Dhananjaya de Silva. The selectors have named a youthful squad, with only two players above the age of

3:00 AM ET Lunch India 299 all out (Vihari 81, Jadeja 58, Roach 4-66, Gabriel 3-71) v West Indies What India’s top-order couldn’t do on the first day, their eighth-wicket partnership did expertly on the second morning of the first Test against West Indies. Ravindra Jadeja (58) and Ishant Sharma (19) frustrated the hosts for

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Yorkshire Diamonds 168 for 6 (Healy 77, Rodrigues 43*) beat Lancashire Thunder 164 for 5 (Threlkeld 52, Levick 2-19) by four wickets Yorkshire Diamonds kept alive their slim hopes of qualifying for Kia Super League Finals Day with a four-wicket win over Roses rivals Lancashire Thunder at Scarborough. Alyssa

3:00 AM ET Lunch Sri Lanka 140 for 6 (Dhananjaya de Silva 30*, Dilruwan Perara 3*) v New Zealand Two double-wicket maidens by New Zealand’s seam-bowling duo of Trent Boult and Tim Southee bookended an opening session that left Sri Lanka struggling on the second day of the second Test. Sri Lanka had resumed on

3:00 AM ET Stumps Australia 179 (Labuschagne 74, Warner 61, Archer 6-45) v England Anyone watching his debut at Lord’s was left in little doubt as to what Jofra Archer brings to this England side, but his six-wicket haul rammed the message home all the same as Australia were bowled out for 179 on the

3:00 AM ET Toss West Indies chose to bowl v India West Indies captain Jason Holder won the toss and elected to bowl after the toss was delayed by half an hour due to rain and wt outfield. The resulting damp conditions would not have affected India’s plans, captain Virat Kohli implied, when he said

Dilruwan Perera celebrates a breakthrough © Associated Press Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat v New Zealand Sri Lanka’s captain Dimuth Karunaratne won the toss and opted to bat in the second Test against New Zealand at the P Sara Oval after a persistent drizzle had wiped out the entire morning session. The hosts made