3:00 AM ET New Zealand 249 (Taylor 86, Dananjaya 5-80, Lakmal 4-29) v Sri Lanka The lower half of New Zealand’s batting order unravelled dramatically on the morning of day two, with the wicket of Ross Taylor setting in motion a collapse that cost them five wickets for 44 runs. Seam bowler Suranga Lakmal claimed
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4:17 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff The inaugural season of the Euro T20 Slam has been cancelled, just two weeks before the tournament had been scheduled to start. The tournament’s organisers released a statement saying that “the board of the Euro T20 Slam, funding partners and franchise owners of this exciting new T20 tournament have reluctantly
3:00 AM ET Lancashire 160 for 2 (Davies 75*) beat Northamptonshire 157 for 7 by eight wickets After the rare taste of defeat against Birmingham Bears, normal service resumed as Lancashire Lightning eased home with nine balls to spare on a night on which one sensed they would not have broken into a sweat even
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3:00 AM ET Toss West Indies opt to bat v India For the first time in the white-ball leg of India’s tour of the United States of America and West Indies, Virat Kohli lost the toss, asked to field first by West Indies captain Jason Holder. The hosts need a win to level the ODI
2:53 PM ET West Indies have won only two of their last 11 completed ODIs. It’s an alarming stat on paper, but the team, according to Carlos Brathwaite, isn’t doing as badly as those results might suggest. “I don’t think we are that far away,” Brathwaite said after West Indies’ training session on Tuesday. “We
3:00 AM ET Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Gloucestershire 144 for 3 (Bracey 64) beat Hampshire 139 for 6 by seven wickets Gloucestershire overcame Hampshire on a slow, sluggish Bristol wicket to go fourth in the Vitality Blast South Group, thanks to a canny bowling
8:46 AM ET Liam Brickhill Quinton de Kock will captain South Africa’s T20 side during their upcoming trip to India. There are also three newcomers in the squad for the three-match T20 International series, with Temba Bavuma and Anrich Nortje included and Lions allrounder Bjorn Fortuin in line for an international debut. Faf du Plessis