Cricket News

Nathan Lyon is excited at the opportunity to bowl against an England team loaded with as many as seven left-handers on pitches he expects will be batting-friendly with a bit of spin

Wicketkeeper-batsman Steven Taylor has pulled out of the USA squad for next month's World Twenty20 Qualifier in Ireland after securing a full CPL contract with Barbados Tridents over the weekend

Virender Sehwag is seriously considering offers from a couple of state associations to bid farewell to Delhi and play as a professional in the upcoming domestic season, ESPNcricinfo has learnt

Peter Moores has rejected claims he is a stats-driven coach and insisted the England side he led was making progress

Graham Wagg came to Glamorgan's rescue on the opening day of their Championship Division Two match against Leicestershire in Cardiff

Graham Napier and James Porter bowled Essex into a winning position on the second day of the Championship match with Gloucestershire at Bristol

At tea Hampshire were 66 for 6, a sequence of numbers appropriate for a disastrous day that left their chances in this match in ruins

Joe Leach nipped a potential Middlesex recovery in the bud before Tom Fell and Moeen Ali hit half-centuries to keep Worcestershire on top

Ahsan Malik starred for Netherlands with figures of 4 for 37 against Papua New Guinea as Netherlands completed an easy five-wicket in Rotterdam

Gareth Batty's seam bowlers secured a 32-run first-innings lead for their side and the batsmen extended that lead to 109 for the loss of both openers by close of play

Yorkshire excluded Australian stars Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch and then sent Nottinghamshire reeling at Headingley

USA wicketkeeper Steven Taylor and Canada offspinner Nikhil Dutta have been awarded full Caribbean Premier League contracts after successful tryouts with the Barbados Tridents and St Kitts & Nevis Patriots respectively

Olly Stone bowled one of the fastest spells of the season as Kent were twice bundled out in less than 45 overs at Northampton

Aaron Finch was taken to hospital after been hit on the chest by a delivery while playing for Yorkshire's 2nd XI on Monday

Players in USA, Canada and Bermuda will have a rare opportunity of an open casting call this September in Indianapolis to see if they are good enough to take on West Indies stars in a combined ICC Americas regional team to play in the 2016 Nagico Super50

Wasim Jaffer, the highest individual run-getter in the Ranji Trophy, has switched to Vidarbha from his home team Mumbai

ESPNcricinfo previews the one-off T20 between England and New Zealand

Bangladesh's pace bowling coach Heath Streak has said that there will be a conscious effort to avoid tinkering too much with Mustafizur Rahman's natural bowling abilities

MS Dhoni might have combatively said he is ready to step aside if that guarantees success, but his reign as India's limited-overs captain appears to be under no real immediate threat

David Smith has described himself as "stunned" and "embarrassed" after he was refused entry by Northamptonshire on Friday night