3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Somerset 146 (Morkel 3-19, McKerr 3-20) and 168 for 3 (Azhar Ali 61*, Hildreth 60) trail Surrey 485 (Elgar 110, Stoneman 85, Burns 78, Roy 63) by 171 runsScorecard Surrey were frustrated by the weather and some stiff Somerset resistance on the third day of the Specsavers County Championship

5:06 AM ET Shashank KishoreESPN Injury woes and hectic scheduling have led to Ravindra Jadeja‘s return to the ODI squad, more than a year since he last featured in a 50-over game for India. He will fly in as a replacement for Axar Patel, who didn’t feature in both league games of the Asia Cup

3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards Sussex224 for 5 (Wiese 66*, Brown 58*, Barker 3-37) trail Warwickshire 440 (Trott 124, Bell 112, Rhodes 50, Archer 4-66) by 216 runsScorecard September’s cricket offered its familiar themes at Hove. They included a first England tour for a promising young fast bowler, Olly Stone, and the imminent retirement of

3:00 AM ET Sidharth Monga Having survived a banana peel against Hong Kong, India came back with a near-perfect bowling performance to register their most comfortable chase against arch-rivals Pakistan: with 126 balls remaining. Going through a patch of uninspiring performances, the bowlers returned with a thorough show, exposing Pakistan’s hardly-used middle order, which showed

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Big Picture Having already qualified for the Super Four stage, after knocking out Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will play the last league fixture in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. The incentive is that the winner will stay in Abu Dhabi while the losing team will have to move to Dubai

  shares Adil Rashid bowls for Yorkshire © Getty Images Adil Rashid is on the verge of confirming his commitment as a Yorkshire cricketer and signing a new all-format deal with the county. The anticipated deal would bring a successful end to a fraught period during which Yorkshire expressed their dismay that Rashid had been

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 350 for 8 (Robson 134, Holden 96*, Palladino 4-66) vs DerbyshireScorecard Sam Robson‘s first century of the season saw Middlesex get the better of the opening day of their Specsavers County Championship match with Derbyshire at Lord’s. The former England opener ended a run drought with 134 –

5:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Geoff Cook, the club’s long-standing director of cricket, is to step down from his role at the end of the season as part of a staff restructure. Cook’s departure comes hot on the heels of the retirement of Paul Collingwood, the club’s longest-serving player, who was one of a raft

5:51 PM ET The ECB’s proposed new 100-ball competition is “still definitely cricket”, according to Worcestershire’s Daryl Mitchell, the chairman of the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA), who has been taking part in two trial days for the format at Trent Bridge. Mitchell, who previously criticised the ECB’s unveiling of the proposal earlier this year, admitted

  shares Toss: Afghanistan chose to bat v Sri Lanka Afghanistan’s players perform the Champion dance to celebrate their victory © ICC/Getty Images Afghanistan won the toss and chose to bat on an Abu Dhabi track expected be good for batting. Having lost his second toss in three days, Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said