3:00 AM ET Yorkshire 232 (Tattersall 92, Wood 5-67) and 338 (Lyth 81, Fletcher 5-67) beat Nottinghamshire 184 (Olivier 4-60) and 243 (Duckett 75, Patterson-White 58*, Maharaj 6-95) by 143 runs As though in riposte to the bizarre events at Canterbury on Tuesday, Yorkshire’s cricketers completed their fifth victory of the season in resolutely unflashy

7:54 AM ET Jason Roy has come through a concussion test following a blow to the head while batting in the nets on Tuesday, but will be assessed once more before he is cleared to play in the third Ashes Test at Headingley. Roy sustained a blow directly on the stem guard when facing throwdowns

12:21 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Test match batting is in decline. Those are the words of India’s captain Virat Kohli in an age when pitches have become result-oriented and bowlers have raised their game several-fold. In just the last two years, various teams have suffered outrageous collapses. England were knocked over for 58 by New

3:00 AM ET David Hopps at Hove Sussex 309 (Wells 62, Carey 56, Beer 77, Roland-Jones 5 for 70) and 145 for 3 (Carey 69*) beat Middlesex 75 (Robinson 8 for 34) and 378 (Simpsone 89, Robson 68, Harris 66, Robinson 6-101) by seven wickets As Jofra Archer attracts nationwide acclaim during an exciting debut

11:44 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Leeds Australia’s coach Justin Langer insists his team will refuse to allow themselves to be drawn into a battle of fire-and-brimstone pace for the Ashes in the wake of Jofra Archer’s trail of destruction at Lord’s, forcing Steven Smith out of the Headingley Test with concussion and generally shaking

3:47 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka have won another Test, their third in a row chasing a tough score. Their captain dug in for a tenacious fourth-innings hundred. The victory has yielded 60 Test Championship points – an excellent start to their campaign in that competition. Away from Tests, they have comfortably won

3:00 AM ET David Hopps at Hove Middlesex 75 (Robinson 8 for 34) and 149 for 4 (Robson 61*) trail Sussex 309 (Wells 62, Carey 56, Beer 77, Roland-Jones 5 for 70) by 85 runs A quorum of former Guardian cricket writers had descended upon Hove by pure happenstance on the second day and after

8:53 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sharjeel Khan is set to return to top-flight cricket by the end of the year. The update comes after he met the PCB and both parties agreed on a roadmap for his return following, for the first time since he was banned, Sharjeel offering an “unconditional apology” for “irresponsible conduct

5:38 PM ET Andrew Miller at Lord’s Joe Root, England’s captain, believes that Jofra Archer‘s addition to the bowling attack has “potentially” changed the course of the Ashes, after another sustained and dramatic display of hostile fast bowling almost inspired England to a remarkable final-day Test victory at Lord’s. Less than 24 hours after unleashing