3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 125 for 3 (Lilley 66) beat Nottinghamshire 104 for 6 (Moores 44*) by 21 runs Arron Lilley helped Leicestershire Foxes pick up their first Vitality Blast win of the season in a rain-reduced match against Notts Outlaws at Trent Bridge. Lilley scored 66 from only 30 balls, hitting

6:02 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer is in line to make his Test debut against Australia during the Ashes after being named in England’s 14-man squad on the strength of his star turn for World Cup champion team. Ben Stokes has been re-appointed England vice-captain, while Olly Stone was named in the squad as

12:25 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Jofra Archer has revealed he was in “excruciating” pain as he battled a side injury during the second half of the World Cup. The tournament finished with him bowling the dramatic tied Super Over that enabled England to win the title on boundary countback. Archer sustained the injury against Afghanistan,

3:00 AM ET Australia 226 for 3 (Lanning 133*, Mooney 54) beat England 133 for 9 (Winfield 33, Schutt 3-25) by 93 runs Not content to have retained the Ashes, Australia captain Meg Lanning ground England into the dirt with a record-breaking knock before her bowlers ensured their opponents stayed down, consigning them to their

10:35 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Joe Root says England’s World Cup players had no difficulty lifting themselves to defeat Ireland in their one-off, four-day Test at Lord’s. Despite being bowled out for just 85 in their first innings, England demolished Ireland for just 38 in the visitors’ second dig, Chris Woakes taking six wickets and

1:59 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Rishabh Pant played four matches for India in the 2019 World Cup, batting at No. 4 in each game. Scores of 32, 48, 4 and 32 seemed to suggest Pant had the potential to be the long-term solution for India, batting at that troublesome number. The No. 4 spot hasn’t

3:00 AM ET Lancashire 170 for 6 (Vilas 43) beat Yorkshire 161 for 9 (Pooran 43, Mahmood 3-33) by nine runs A Roses T20 tie on an impossibly sultry Headingley evening with temperatures still close to 30C: Britain’s second hottest day on record was a draining accompaniment to a raucous Blast tie that generally combusts

10:14 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff In a surprise development, Oppo, the Chinese mobile manufacturing company that paid a record sum in 2017 to secure the sponsorship rights of the Indian cricket team, has bailed out of their contract three years before it ends. On Thursday, the BCCI said Oppo was being replaced by Byju’s, a

3:41 PM ET Fifty-six runs, 84 balls, five boundaries. Fifty-eight runs, 94 balls, eight boundaries. Those two innings were both played by David Warner, six weeks apart, in vastly different circumstances. The first was his battling contribution against India in the World Cup match at The Oval, a source of much criticism that Warner was

3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards Gloucestershire 354 (Smith 83, Higgins 76, Dent 58; Leach 6-79) and 184 (Barnard 3-17, Parnell 3-37) beat Worcestershire 293 (Whiteley 88, D’Oliveira 68, Higgins 3-52) and 232 (Ferguson 63, Higgins 4-64) by 13 runs They will be waltzing in Montpellier Gardens tonight. Even the public reading of Sense and Sensibility