Trent Rockets 133 for 8 (Hain 63, Jordan 3-18) beat Southern Brave (du Plooy 29, Lewis Gregory 3-19, Sams 3-26) by six runs Defending champions Trent Rockets kicked off their Men’s Hundred campaign with a six-run victory over 2021 winners Southern Brave in a low-scoring contest at Trent Bridge, Daniel Sams and Lewis Gregory taking

Kent 282 for 9 (Evison 136, Compton 103, Coad 3-16, Revis 3-57) beat Yorkshire 117 for 4 (Hill 35) by two runs (DLS method) Superb centuries for Joey Evison and Ben Compton helped champions Kent recover from early strife and later survive a Matthew Revis hat-trick to get their Metro Bank One-Day Cup title defence

Ben Stokes has confirmed that the England and Australia players caught up for their post-Ashes debrief in a nightclub. This, after reports on Monday night that the Australians were locked out of the home dressing room at the Kia Oval. Following England’s 49-run victory in the fifth Test, which confirmed a 2-2 draw, England had

West Indies ODI captain Shai Hope, batter Shimron Hetmyer and fast bowler Oshane Thomas have earned recalls to the T20I squad as the management starts preparing for the 2024 T20 World Cup. The 15-man squad has been picked for the five-match series against India from August 3 to 13. From West Indies’ last T20I squad,

Ricky Ponting believes the choice of replacement ball during Australia’s second innings in the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval was a “huge blunder” which “needs to be investigated”. Umpires Joel Wilson and Kumar Dharmasena changed the ball after the first delivery of the 37th over, deeming that it had gone out of shape after

Romario Shepherd was named after the Brazilian footballer, one the greatest strikers in that sport. Shepherd was born in Linden, where football – or track and field – is arguably more popular than cricket, but he took to cricket. Tall, strong and muscular, Shepherd towered over other boys during age-group and regional cricket. He has

England insist Mark Wood is fully fit to bowl despite holding him back until the 33rd over of Australia’s run chase on a rainy Sunday afternoon at The Kia Oval, while Australia believe they have worn England’s bowlers down with their approach with the bat throughout this Ashes series. Wood, who has 13 wickets at

Australia 295 and 135 for 0 (Khawaja 69*, Warner 58) need another 249 runs to beat England 283 and 395 (Root 91, Bairstow 78, Crawley 73, Starc 4-100, Murphy 4-110) A day which started with Stuart Broad receiving a guard of honour from the Australians following his retirement announcement the previous night, ended with David

India head coach Rahul Dravid doesn’t want to “make the mistake” of letting the ODI series scoreline of 1-1 take the focus away from looking at the “bigger picture” as India build towards the 2023 World Cup at home this October-November. Dravid meant the team is willing to strike a balance between providing opportunities to

Toss West Indies chose to bowl vs India India opted to rest Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for the second ODI against West Indies at Bridgetown, Barbados. The hosts won the toss and opted to bowl while themselves making two changes to the side that lost the opener by five wickets, with Alzarri Joseph and