Indian cricketers Kuldeep Yadav and Ashutosh Sharma delivered standout performances in England's One-Day Cup, with Yadav's crucial wickets helping Yorkshire to a win and Sharma's maiden five-wicket haul securing a victory for Hampshire.
Captain Ben Stokes and speedster Gus Atkinson will return to the side for the third Test against New Zealand in Nottingham following conclusion of a disciplinary hearing.
England expect Ben Stokes to return to captain the side in the third Test against New Zealand, head coach Brendon McCullum said on Sunday.
India spinner Sai Kishore has signed a six-match deal with English county side Gloucestershire for the remainder of the season.
England test captain Ben Stokes is set to play for Durham against Worcestershire in the County Championship, marking his return since fracturing his cheekbone in February.
England have dropped opener Zak Crawley and selected Emilio Gay as Ben Duckett's opening partner in a reshaped squad for the first Test against New Zealand.
Surrey broke a 126-year-old club record when they posted their highest total in a county cricket match on Monday, declaring their first innings at 820/9 against Durham.
R Sai Kishore has signed up with Surrey to play two Division One matches in the English County Championship later this month.
India fast bowler Varun Aaron will play for Durham in the remainder of the English county season. He becomes the second Indian this summer to play for a county club after promising batsman Cheteshwar Pujara joined Derbyshire.
Former South Africa all rounder Shaun Pollock will play for English county Durham in the Twenty20 Cup this season, the club said on Wednesday.
Ben Stokes calls England's 4-1 Ashes loss his toughest phase as captain but vows to restore pride in the upcoming home Test summer, with ECB backing leadership.
Speaking about Pant, Wood highlighted the wicketkeeper-batter's fearlessness as his biggest strength.
Archer played in his first first-class match in four years during Sussex's County Championship game against Durham at Chester-le-Street on Sunday and took one wicket for 32 from 18 overs.
Archer has not picked up a red cricket ball since May 2021 for Sussex after a series of injuries kept delaying his return.
The T20I series against South Africa will be played from 10-14 September, following the ongoing ODI series where the Proteas hold an unassailable 2-0 lead heading into the final match on Sunday.
Ahead of the gruelling five-match Test match series against England, the Indian Test team led by skipper Virat Kohli, had a centre wicket training at the Durhan Cricket Club in Durham on Tuesday.
Jos Buttler top-scored again as England chased down an imposing target and beat West Indies by four wickets in the second T20 International on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead.
Senior India batter Cheteshwar Pujara continued his stellar show in the English County Championship, scoring a his third century in as many games for Sussex in Hove on Friday.
If the deal comes to fruition, it will make Hampshire the first county side to be owned by an overseas franchise.
The all-rounder bludgeoned 18-year-old Josh Baker for 34 runs in an over which included five sixes and a boundary -- the second time in his county career he had cleared the rope in five consecutive deliveries.
Jofra Archer made his first appearance in a first-class match in four years on Sunday in the County Championship as the 30-year-old quick continues his comeback from a spate of injuries
England skipper Ben Stokes and right-arm seamer Brydon Carse are unlikely to feature in the upcoming Test series against India and the Ashes as they are still recovering from injuries.
Cheteshwar Pujara said his stint for Surrey will hold him in good stead when India takes on England in the one-off Test in July.
Banned Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft has joined English county side Durham as an overseas player for the 2019 season and will be available for club selection across all three formats.
Cheteshwar Pujara continued to thrive in the English County circuit
Warwickshire captain Will Rhodes will lead the County Select XI to play India at the Emirates Riverside in Durham.
Ian Bell continued his purple patch of form against Australia on Sunday, becoming only the third Englishman to score three centuries in a home Ashes series.
Australia's plan to starve England of runs paid off handsomely as they reduced the home team to 238 for nine on the opening day of the fourth Ashes Test in County Durham on Friday.
Photos from the 4th Ashes Test played in Chester-le-Street, County Durham on Friday.
It is understood that Kohli, Rahane, Shami, Jadeja will be sweating it out at the nets alongside Ashwin, who has already bowled a whopping 58 overs and taken seven wickets in a County game for Surrey last week.
Mohammad Kaif made a breezy 31 in Derbyshire's first innings but was out for 7 in the second, against Durham.
Pacer Steve Harmison became the latest entrant to the burgeoning list of England players bidding to rake in the millions from the lucrative Indian Premier League this season.
In both constituencies, the Conservative party candidates finished third and in Sedgefield, the Liberal Democrats edged them out from the second position.
Former England manager Bobby Robson had been battling various forms of cancer for several years> He was diagnosed with inoperable tumours in both lungs last year.
Run continued to flow from V V S Laxman's blade, while S Sreesanth too dazzled in his debut for Warwickshire as both the Indians made their mark in their ongoing County Championship matches. At Old Trafford, Laxman hit a classy 193-ball 87, to top score for Lancashire, while Sreesanth came as the first change bowler and removed Adam Voges, Ali Brown and Mark Ealham for a decent figure of 14.1-1-65-3.
India Test discard Virender Sehwag has been roped in to captain the Marylebone Cricket Club squad in a four-day Champion County match against Durham, starting March 23, in Abu Dhabi.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is working on COVID-19 protocols to organise a warm-up game for the touring Indian team against 'Combined Counties' side in the third week of July as a tune-up for the first Test in Nottingham, starting on August 4.
Ben Stokes eased concerns about his fitness after he captained England to a thumping eight-wicket win over New Zealand in the first Test at Christchurch's Hagley Oval on Sunday.
Former Essex County cricketer Mervyn Westfield has been charged with 'conspiracy to defraud' for his role in an alleged rigged County match last year
Cheteshwar Pujara, leading Sussex, scored a century in the first innings against Durham in the the County Championship Division Two match.
