2:23 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli has indicated that India will go into the Antigua Test with the same combination that helped them pull off their first-ever Test-series win in Australia at the turn of the year. If this is the case, Rohit Sharma and Hanuma Vihari will most likely be contesting the No.

3:00 AM ET Yorkshire 232 (Tattersall 92, Wood 5-67) and 338 (Lyth 81, Fletcher 5-67) beat Nottinghamshire 184 (Olivier 4-60) and 243 (Duckett 75, Patterson-White 58*, Maharaj 6-95) by 143 runs As though in riposte to the bizarre events at Canterbury on Tuesday, Yorkshire’s cricketers completed their fifth victory of the season in resolutely unflashy

10:40 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Leeds “Take back control” has been a pretty loaded phrase in this part of the world ever since its co-option by Dominic Cummings and the Vote Leave campaign that successfully won Britain’s EU referendum in 2016. It is also a highly relevant one to Australia’s Ashes campaign, which began

12:21 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Test match batting is in decline. Those are the words of India’s captain Virat Kohli in an age when pitches have become result-oriented and bowlers have raised their game several-fold. In just the last two years, various teams have suffered outrageous collapses. England were knocked over for 58 by New

3:00 AM ET David Hopps at Hove Sussex 309 (Wells 62, Carey 56, Beer 77, Roland-Jones 5 for 70) and 145 for 3 (Carey 69*) beat Middlesex 75 (Robinson 8 for 34) and 378 (Simpsone 89, Robson 68, Harris 66, Robinson 6-101) by seven wickets As Jofra Archer attracts nationwide acclaim during an exciting debut

7:10 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Sreesanth, the one-time India fast bowler, can finally breathe a little easy after the BCCI reduced his IPL 2013 spot-fixing ban to seven years, the sanction period coming to an end on September 13, 2020. This comes five months after the Supreme Court of India “set aside” the BCCI ban

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Indians 297 for 6 dec (Pujara 100 retired out, Rohit 68, Carter 3-39) and 188 for 5 dec (Vihari 64, Rahane 54, Frazer 2-43) drew with West Indies A 181 (Hodge 51, Ishant 3-21, Umesh 3-19) and 47 for 3 (Solozano 16, Jadeja 1-3) Ajinkya Rahane and Hanuma Vihari tuned

3:00 AM ET David Hopps at Hove Middlesex 75 (Robinson 8 for 34) and 149 for 4 (Robson 61*) trail Sussex 309 (Wells 62, Carey 56, Beer 77, Roland-Jones 5 for 70) by 85 runs A quorum of former Guardian cricket writers had descended upon Hove by pure happenstance on the second day and after

5:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Steven Smith has leapfrogged Kane Williamson to second place on the ICC Test rankings for batsmen after amassing 378 runs in three innings at an average of 126 in the ongoing Ashes series. Despite being banned from international cricket for a year because of his role in the Newlands ball-tampering

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Loughborough Lightning 135 for 4 (du Preez 38*) beat Yorkshire Diamonds 129 (Rodrigues 58, Matthews 2-19) by six wickets Loughborough Lightning completed a third win in four matches to move ahead of Surrey Stars into third place in the Kia Super League, winning a low-scoring contest by six wickets