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New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first vs England Kane Williamson won the toss for New Zealand and chose to bat first, as the third LV= Insurance Test against England prepared to get underway at Headingley. On a straw-coloured pitch that was described as a “featherbed” by Nick Knight on Sky Sports,

England won the toss and chose to bowl first vs Netherlands Jos Buttler, standing in as captain, won the toss and chose to bowl first in a game that will see England move to the top of the World Cup Super League with a win. Sam Curran returns to the England side in place of

Jos Buttler has insisted that Eoin Morgan has the full support of the England dressing room despite his lean run with the bat after Ben Stokes claimed that Morgan’s poor form was a media invention. Morgan made two ducks in England’s ODI series in the Netherlands and sat out of the third game with a

Jamie Overton will make his Test debut against New Zealand at Headingley on Thursday, in place of James Anderson, as England’s captain Ben Stokes confirmed a solitary change to the team that sealed the series with their five-wicket victory at Trent Bridge last week. Stokes, who had himself been a concern after missing training through

Big picture Well, it’s been a fun week on the continent. Records broken, press-box windows broken, and historical precedents smashed to smithereens too, with the ECB finally deigning to take on their nearest cricketing neighbours (as the crow flies from their respective HQs at any rate) in a full bilateral series. The last rites get

Liam Livingstone has become such an integral part of England’s white-ball plans that it seems surreal that Wednesday’s fixture against the Netherlands in Amstelveen will be only the sixth appearance of his ODI career. He had two cameos at No. 6 in Pune 15 months ago and filled in as an opener for the injured

The French footballer Claude Makélélé was a player so influential that a position was named after him: the deepest member of a midfield three plays in “the Makélélé role”. English cricket has its own equivalent: a fast bowler hitting the pitch hard in the middle overs of an ODI operates in “the Plunkett role”. The

Toss Netherlands chose to bat vs England Netherlands won the toss and chose to bat first in the second of three ODIs against England in Amstelveen. After heavy overnight rain left a soggy scene at the VRA ground, delaying the start time by nearly three hours and reducing the action to 41 overs per side,

Big picture Well, how do you follow that? The logical answer – if logic has anything to do with what happened in Amstelveen on Friday – is that England will aim to top 500. And on the back of a record-breaking display, headlined by Jos Buttler‘s berserker 162 off 70 balls, few would bet against

Fifty-over cricket… remind me what that is again? Ah yes, that’s right, it’s all about Jonny Bairstow getting into Beast Mode and belting six after six after six into the short square boundary, to hunt down a run-a-ball target without breaking sweat. Or is that what Test cricket has become in the last few days?

Eoin Morgan labelled Jos Buttler “the best white-ball cricketer in the world” after his innings of 162 not out off 70 balls led England to a record ODI and List A total against the Netherlands in Amstelveen, while Buttler suggested he was playing the best cricket of his career. Buttler hit seven fours and 14

Toss Netherlands chose to bowl first vs England Netherlands won the toss and sent England in to bat in the first of their three ODIs in Amstelveen. A late team change sees the return of Tom Cooper to the Netherlands middle-order, having played his previous ODI back in 2013. He replaces Teja Nidamanuru following the

Eoin Morgan will rest himself for some of England’s limited-overs international fixtures this summer amid concerns over his fitness, but has insisted that he still feels as though he can “contribute to a World Cup win” in Australia this winter. Morgan injured his right quad in January after playing back-to-back games in Barbados during England’s

Pieter Seelaar, the Netherlands’ captain, says he has learned to live with the absence of leading Dutch players from his squad, with at least three first-choice players due to play in the T20 Blast rather than featuring in Friday’s marquee first ODI against England in Amstelveen. In theory, the KNCB (the Dutch board) can force

David Willey will return to Northamptonshire at the end of this season after seven years at Yorkshire and aimed a parting shot at the club by suggesting that cricket has felt “secondary to repairing the club’s reputation” after the ongoing investigation into historic allegations of racism and discrimination. Willey, 32, left Wantage Road for Headingley

Matthew Mott has revealed that he was interviewed as a candidate to become Australia’s men’s head coach but was beaten to the job by Andrew McDonald before taking on the men’s white-ball role as part of England’s new coaching set-up. Mott, 48, coached Australia’s record-breaking women’s side from 2015 until their victory in this year’s

Luke Wood is set to make his England ODI debut in the Netherlands but has not played a 50-over game for three years. As such, his call-up to Matthew Mott’s first white-ball squad for the three-match series which starts on Friday, squeezed in between the second and third New Zealand Tests, is a revealing moment.

England batter Joe Root has replaced Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne at the top of the ICC men’s Test rankings, following his recent run of form. Root, who recently became only the second England batter to score more than 10000 Test runs, has been in fine touch during the ongoing home series against New Zealand, producing knocks

It may take some time for the shock to wear off, but when it does it may strike New Zealand how close they were to winning this Test – which, given the final make-up of their XI – might have counted among one of their most remarkable wins. A post-tea mishit to a fielder, a

England have added Mark Alleyne and Neil Killeen to their coaching staff for the ODI tour of the Netherlands. The pair will form part of the team supporting new white-ball coach Matthew Mott in his first engagement since being appointed in May. Alleyne worked previously with England’s T20I players in the Caribbean earlier this year,

Moeen Ali has confirmed his willingness to return to Test cricket for this winter’s tour of Pakistan, and has announced that he is officially “unretired” following a conversation on Sunday morning with England’s new head coach, Brendon McCullum. Moeen called time on his Test career in September, after claiming 195 wickets in 64 Tests, as

A tough day in the field for Stuart Broad was made all the more gruelling on Saturday, after a 6am wake-up call to tell him that the Nottinghamshire pub that he co-owns was on fire. Firefighters were called to the award-winning Tap & Run country pub in Upper Broughton, near Melton Mowbray, at about 3.20am

Tom Cooper, the veteran Australian batter, is set to play his first ODI in nine years next week after being included in the Netherlands squad to play England in three World Cup Super League ODIs in Amstelveen. Cooper, 35, has made 41 appearances for the Netherlands across ODI and T20I cricket and was part of

Jack Leach will make an immediate return to England’s Test team after the selectors named an unchanged XI for the second Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge, starting on Friday. Leach, for whom the Lord’s Test had been his first at home since the Ashes in 2019, had to be substituted out of the

Big picture Are you not entertained? Thus was the mood music from a raucous four days of the first LV= Insurance Test at Lord’s. In so many ways, it was immaterial whether England won or lost that opening contest of the summer, so long as they put on a show that captivated a few wavering

Mark Alleyne, the former England and Gloucestershire allrounder, will join Welsh Fire as an assistant coach ahead of their upcoming men’s Hundred season. Alleyne, who represented England in 10 one-day internationals and captained Gloucestershire to nine one-day trophies in seven years, joins head coach Gary Kirsten and fellow assistants Matt Maynard and Jason Kerr to

Adil Rashid has insisted that he has “not closed the door on Test cricket” and has been in contact with Brendon McCullum, England’s new coach, about the possibility of returning to red-ball cricket after an absence of three-and-a-half years. Rashid’s last Test appearance came in Barbados in January 2019 and he has not played a

If Stuart Broad learned one thing from his dramatic post-Ashes axing, it was to not look too far beyond his next match. The old “one game at a time” phrase couldn’t be more yawn-inducing but Broad’s approach is much more nuanced than that. So, like his wise words to the England team mid-Ashes drubbing about

Two players, great mates, both winners. But the contrast in the joy expressed by Ben Stokes and Joe Root over England’s first-Test victory over New Zealand was palpable at Lord’s on Sunday. Root, by his own admission, unburdened by the captaincy – not so much in terms of his personal performance after notching up yet

Joe Root said he had been spurred on by the opportunity to “pay a bit back” to Ben Stokes after his innings of 115 not out guided England to a five-wicket win against New Zealand at Lord’s in their first Test match since his resignation as captain. Stokes described Root as “Mr Dependent” in the