3:00 AM ET England (Roy 85) beat Australia 223 (Smith 85, Woakes 3-20) by eight wickets How does that old song go again? Thirty years of hurt? Make that 44 and counting (and contrary to the lyrics, England’s cricketers certainly gave up dreaming for at least 20 of those). But suddenly it’s all up for

3:58 AM ET Andrew Miller Close UK editor, ESPNcricinfo Andrew Miller was saved from a life of drudgery in the City when his car caught fire on the way to an interview. He took this as a sign and fled to Pakistan where he witnessed England’s historic victory in the twilight at Karachi (or thought

6:28 PM ET India lost the World Cup semi-final in the first 45 minutes of their chase against New Zealand, and will now return home “heartbroken”, according to their captain, Virat Kohli, who nevertheless insisted that his team had done a “commendable” job in the course of the tournament. The several hundred India fans, who

© Associated Press Heavy favourites coming into their World Cup 2019 semi-final after topping the league stage, India’s campaign came to an end in a thriller at Old Trafford and captain Virat Kohli admitted New Zealand got through to the final because “they were far sharper when it came to the crunch moments.” “It always

Jul 8, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff Sussex 263 & 120 lead Australia A 373 (Burns 133, Harris 109) by 10 runs Joe Burns provided Australia’s selectors with a conundrum after matching Marcus Harris with a century for Australia A before the bowlers ripped through Sussex to put the tourists on the brink of victory on day

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 172 (Shaw 4-33) and 244 (Roland-Jones 51*, Higgins 4-35) beat Gloucestershire 201 (Higgins 61*) and 137 (van Buren 57*, Murtagh 5-44) by 78 runs Tim Murtagh grabbed his fourth five-wicket haul in the County Championship this season as Middlesex rolled Gloucestershire over for 137 to clinch victory inside

1:04 PM ET It’s one of the biggest matches in the recent history of England cricket and it has been a sell-out for weeks, but there seems a good chance there may be many empty seats at Edgbaston on Thursday. What is the problem? It looked, for a while, as if India may be involved

8:44 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Nicholas Pooran, Fabian Allen and Oshane Thomas have been handed Cricket West Indies central contracts for the first time and Darren Bravo returns with an all-format deal while the number of women on contracts has increased from 12 to 15. Among the men’s contracts there are now seven players on

12:28 PM ET Mohammad Isam in London Steve Rhodes‘ term as Bangladesh’s head coach has come to a premature end following the team’s eighth-place finish at the World Cup. Rhodes, who took over in June 2018, was on a two-year contract that was originally set to run until next year’s World T20. The BCB and

4:13 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Days after being dropped from Ireland’s ODI squad, for the three-match series against Zimbabwe, left-arm spinner George Dockrell has been left out of the long-format squad, too, for the one-off Test against England at Lord’s. James Cameron-Dow, also a left-arm spinner, seamer Barry McCarthy, and wicketkeeper-batsman Stuart Poynter, who were