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Lunch South Africa 284 and 9 for 1 (Wolvaardt 6*, Cross 1-5) trail England 417 for 8 dec (Sciver 169, Davidson-Richards 107) by 124 runs Nat Sciver extended her powerful innings and then had a hand in an early breakthrough as England stretched their advantage over South Africa at lunch on the third day of

Michael Vaughan has made the decision “step back from work with the BBC”, almost two weeks after being charged over the Yorkshire racism scandal, and will not be part of the Test Match Special commentary team for next week’s delayed fifth Test against India. Vaughan was dropped from last winter’s Ashes coverage after being implicated

Stuart Broad has received an official reprimand from the ICC and had a demerit point added to his record for a code of conduct breach during the Headingley Test, which England won by seven wickets. Broad was charged with a breach of Article 2.9, with relates to throwing a ball “at or near a player

Eoin Morgan, England men’s limited-overs captain, has confirmed his retirement from international cricket. He steps down as England’s leading run-scorer and most-capped player in both white-ball formats, and the only man to lead the team to an ODI World Cup success. Morgan’s announcement had been expected after an extended period in which he had struggled

Ben Stokes says that England’s seven-wicket victory in the third Test at Headingley is the most satisfying moment yet in his team’s remarkable renaissance against New Zealand, because the players were able to hold their nerve after collapsing to 55 for 6 on the second afternoon, and stay true to the new attacking approach that

Eoin Morgan is expected to step down as England’s white-ball captain and retire from international cricket on Tuesday morning after seven-and-a-half years in charge. Morgan was appointed in 2014 and has spearheaded England’s revolution in limited-overs cricket, transforming the one-day sides and leading them to their first World Cup in 2019, but his form and

Tom Blundell said that New Zealand have “got to fight” on the final day of the Headingley Test in their bid to avoid a 3-0 whitewash, but retains hope that the pitch deteriorating will help them create eight opportunities and bowl England out with only 113 more runs required to win. Blundell was unbeaten on

Foakes was seen warming up before the start of play on Saturday but did not take the field when England were bowled out shortly before lunch, with Jonny Bairstow taking the wicketkeeping gloves instead. The ECB said that Foakes had returned to the team hotel midway through the afternoon session and that he would be

India have been on the cusp of history for nearly a year now. They left England in September with a 2-1 lead in a five-match series. Now, finally, the series will resume on July 1 at Edgbaston, and if it does go India’s way, Cheteshwar Pujara believes it will be one of their greatest wins

Jamie Overton has been a long, long time coming. Having impressed at U-19 level a decade ago, and been first called up to an England squad in 2013, and despite being a near-permanent presence on England’s radar, he only makes his England debut today, at Headingley. The pace has always kept them interested but, this

Yorkshire would have gone bust had the ECB not lifted its suspension on Headingley hosting international and major cricket matches, according to the club’s chair, Lord Kamlesh Patel. Imposed in November following the county’s handling of Azeem Rafiq’s racism scandal, those sanctions were lifted in February under certain provisos. Those included the ability to show

Innings break New Zealand 329 (Mitchell 109, Blundell 55, Leach 5-100) vs England Daryl Mitchell made history for New Zealand with his third century in consecutive matches, but fell on the stroke of lunch to a fine catch in the deep from Ben Stokes, as England were made to toil for their breakthroughs on the

Adil Rashid will miss England’s white-ball series against India and the latter stages of Yorkshire’s T20 Blast campaign in order to make the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Rashid is a practicing Muslim and decided earlier this year that he had reached the right time in his life to make the pilgrimage, and has been granted

England’s new coaching structure will hold face-to-face meetings next week to work out how to manage multi-format players’ workloads during a schedule of 12 limited-overs internationals in 25 days. Matthew Mott‘s white-ball side will play three ODIs and three T20Is against both India and South Africa between July 7 and 31, a window which starts

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