3:00 AM ET Essex 216 (Cook 80) and 183 (Cook 47, Groenewald 5-51) beat Somerset 131 (Porter 5-51, Beard 4-23) and 117 (Porter 4-22) by 151 runs In successive weeks, the top two counties in the Championship have come to Chelmsford and been sent packing. Hampshire were dismissed for 118 and 88 which at least

11:57 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Australia women coach Matthew Mott has admitted that the way the team faded at the end of the 2017-18 Ashes has provided motivation to retain the prize with outright victory in this year’s multi-point series. Australia kept hold of the Ashes when it was played on home soil – having

4:38 PM ET Gulbadin Naib, Afghanistan’s captain, blamed a shoddy fielding performance for his side’s failure to claim their first scalp of the World Cup, as his attempts to replicate the circumstances of their battling display against India on Saturday came unstuck in a 62-run defeat against Bangladesh. Faced with the same strip of turf

10:32 AM ET Sidharth Monga The nail-biting win over West Indies at Old Trafford was the kind of result that gives teams a lot of self-belief, but it has come at a significant cost for New Zealand. Their main batsman, the only one to have scored more than 200 runs at this World Cup, is

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Matthew Wade continued his staggering form on the Australia A tour of the UK with a record-breaking 155 in a comfortable seven-wicket win over Derbyshire. Wade smashed 155 off just 71 balls to help Australia A stroll to their target of 284 in just 35.2 overs. He set a new

4:34 PM ET South Africa’s exit from the World Cup will go down as the lowest point in Faf du Plessis‘ career as captain. South Africa have lost their fifth game out of seven at this World Cup, to Pakistan at Lord’s, leaving them above only Afghanistan – the only side they have beaten –

8:20 AM ET Mehidy Hasan is understood to be out of danger after being struck on the side of a head by a ball during a net session in Southampton. The incident occurred while Mehidy was giving an interview, on the sidelines of the practice session, on the eve of Bangladesh’s match against Afghanistan. A

3:00 AM ET Big Picture If disappointment and frustration could be ring-fenced into a cricket ground, the best way to do it would be airdropping Pakistan and South Africa’s 2019 World Cup in Lord’s Cricket ground tomorrow. Two sides that were widely considered genuine semi-final contenders, they have seen their hopes dashed game after game,

3:00 AM ET New Zealand 291 for 8 (Williamson 148, Taylor 69, Cottrell 4-56) beat West Indies 286 (Brathwaite 101, Gayle 87, Hetmyer 54, Boult 4-30, Ferguson 3-59) by 5 runsAs it happened We’ve had Sri Lanka, the No. 9-ranked team that came to the World Cup in utter disarray, stunning the No. 1 side

10:14 AM ET Who says India-Pakistan doesn’t matter anymore? Judging by the reactions of some Pakistani fans to their team’s defeat to India last Sunday, it matters to them, and perhaps a bit too much. The last week has been a cruel one for Pakistan’s players. Becoming the subject of countless memes is now par