Jofra Archer celebrates a wicket © Getty Images Jofra Archer tuned up for a likely Test debut at Lord’s next week with a six-wicket haul for Sussex’s 2nd XI in his first red-ball appearance for nearly 11 months, before hitting a 99-ball 108 for good measure. In the bucolic surrounds of Woodmancote, in rural West

12:46 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Brendon McCullum, the former New Zealand captain, has called time on his cricket career four years after his international retirement. The ongoing Global T20 Canada, where he is representing the Toronto Nationals, will be his last. This means McCullum will not turn up for Glasgow Giants as one of the

4:31 PM ET Melinda Farrell Close Melinda Farrell is a presenter with ESPNcricinfo On the first morning of the Test they were primed. This was Fortress Edgbaston after all, a fortress that has long felt like a football ground; Tim Paine had dismissed, dismissed this as the 16th-most hostile venue in the world. The first

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Big picture With lightning scares, and the possibility of any series result other than India’s win out of the way, the teams move to Guyana, in the northern mainland of South America for the third and final T20I. Neither team looked keen on making changes during the second match on

3:00 AM ET Toss India chose to bowl v West Indies Virat Kohli elected to bowl in the first T20I against West Indies, saying he expected the pitch – under covers for the best part in the lead-up to the game – to get flatter as it was exposed to the sun during the morning.

© Getty Images Andre Russell‘s decision to withdraw from the T20I series against India and play in the Global T20 Canada is “part of his rehabilitation plans” according to Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave. “We cleared him fit to play in Canada as a batsman,” Grave told ESPNcricinfo. “To monitor his fitness every

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 152 (Ackermann 37, Parnell 4-25) beat Worcestershire 119 (Cox 30, Griffiths 3-23, Davis 3-24) by 33 runs Leicestershire Foxes upset the form book when they toppled holders and in-form Worcestershire Rapids by 33 runs in a North Group encounter at Blackfinch New Road. The vaunted Rapids top order

2:46 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff On a pitch that Virat Kohli described as “sluggish”, West Indies finished with a below par 95 for 9 to go down by four wickets against India in the first T20I. West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite pointed to his batsmen’s assessment and shot selection as the reasons behind the defeat.

3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards Lancashire Lightning 151 for 6 (Maxwell 73) beat Notts Outlaws 148 for 9 (Parkinson 3-22) by 3 runs Until this extraordinary evening nothing was more likely to deflate the sails of the good ship Lancashire than the prospect of playing Notts Outlaws in T20 cricket. The distance between Trent Bridge