3:00 AM ET Lancashire 189 for 3 (Croft 65* Maxwell 58) beat Durham 117 (Steel 58) by 72 runs It turns out that Glenn Maxwell, as far away from a synthetic cricketer as it is possible to get, just needed an artificial pitch to put his English summer to rights. Well, not an artificial pitch

5:18 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Amid intense speculation over his future, MS Dhoni is not travelling with the India squad to the West Indies. Chief selector MSK Prasad said the wicketkeeper-batsman is “unavailable” for the tour. Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya have been rested from the white-ball leg of the tour, and the latter isn’t

12:03 AM ET Khulna Titans have roped in Australian allrounder Shane Watson for the 2019-20 Bangladesh Premier League. Watson was the first of the two direct signings for Khulna, who finished at the bottom of the points table last season. Watson, who had missed the 2017 BPL due to injury, after signing up with Dhaka

5:52 PM ET Alex Carey‘s scar is healing well. Signs of the blow to the chin by Jofra Archer’s short ball in Australia’s World Cup semi-final defeat are still there, but will not be anywhere near as indelible as the mark Carey made on the tournament with a series of innings that had him earning

5:46 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Almost a week after the epic 2019 World Cup final between England and New Zealand at Lord’s, the winning captain Eoin Morgan still cannot pinpoint where the game was won and lost. With both the match and Super Over ending in ties, England were declared winners on the basis of

3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff West Indies A 298 for 9 (Chase 84, Thomas 70, Khaleel 4-67, Avesh 3-62) beat India A (Axar 81*, Washington 45, Powell 2-47) by five runs After losing the first three games and conceding the series to India A, West Indies A pulled one back, overcoming a late assault from

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Durham 148 for 4 (Short 46) Northamptonshire 141 for 9 (Rossington 47, Potts 2-11) by seven runs A fine all-round performance from D’Arcy Short on debut guided Durham to a narrow seven-run victory over Northamptonshire Steelbacks in their Vitality Blast opener at Emirates Riverside. The Australia opener set the

5:25 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Andrew McDonald has been confirmed as the men’s coach of Birmingham Phoenix with Daniel Vettori as his assistant, as first revealed by ESPNcricinfo last month. McDonald, 38, has a growing reputation as a coach, after leading Melbourne Renegades to their maiden Big Bash League title this year. He has also

12:18 AM ET Disappointment, despair and heartbreak. These are the words Sikandar Raza used to describe the mood among his Zimbabwe team-mates, as they frantically called each other and exchanged messages in the minutes following the ICC’s decision to suspend Zimbabwe with immediate effect over ‘government interference’. Raza said his team-mates’ emotions were similar to

3:00 AM ET Matt Roller at Lord’s Middlesex 166 for 3 (de Villiers 88*) beat Essex 164 for 6 (ten Doeschate 74*, Helm 3-27) by seven wickets “Me, I’m from the Wild West / Guess you’d call it Middlesex” sing The Rhythm Method on their debut album How Would You Know I Was Lonely? Tonight,