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Salah himself blasted home the spot-kick and Leeds looked as though they may be in for a very long day.
Jos Buttler was rewarded for his good showing in the Indian Premier League with a place in England's 12-man squad for the first Test against Pakistan at Lord's, starting May 24.
The Board of Control for cricket in India has cleared the quarterly dues of all its centrally-contracted cricketers and vowed not to let anyone suffer despite the uncertainty triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused financial blowback in other countries. Major cricket boards like England and Australia have indicated that players will have to take pay cuts.
England medium fast bowler Matthew Hoggard was pulled out of Yorkshire's county championship match against Nottinghamshire on Wednesday because of a side injury.
Vaughan had surgery on his knee last December and made his comeback for county side Yorkshire at the end of May.
The 75-year-old former England fast bowler is undergoing treatment in Airedale Hospital in West Yorkshire.
Australia head coach Darren Lehmann has thrown his weight behind former paceman Jason Gillespie for the role of bowling coach.
Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel of Bradford, an OBE and a leading voice on health, social care and community cohesion in the UK, has become the first British Asian to join the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Images from Sunday's Premier League action.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes as 'unprecedented' levels of flooding continue to hit the already blighted north of England.
Former Australia cricket captain Steve Waugh and paceman Jason Gillespie have both expressed an interest in succeeding Rodney Marsh as the country's chairman of selectors.
Yorkshire coach Gillespie was widely expected to get the job but new England cricket director Andrew Strauss has opted for the 52-year-old Bayliss who led Sri Lanka to the 2011 World Cup final, a newspaper reported.
Rodrigues, Kaur, Mandhana and Sharma were also a part of the now-defunct Kia Super League (KSL) in 2019, the ECB's domestic T20 tournament that made way for the Women's Hundred.
It is understood that barring captain Virat Kohli, almost all the Test team regulars will be in action in the one-off Test against Afghanistan.
Yorkshire wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow has been called up to England's squad for the fifth one-day international with New Zealand on Saturday after Jos Buttler split the webbing on his left hand in practice.
Here are five talking points from the weekend's Premier League action:
A cap worn by Sunil Gavaskar on India's 1971 tour of England, a signed coaching kit donated by Ravi Shastri are among the cricketing memorabilia that are up for grabs at two of Christie's ongoing online auctions.
Root toasts best win as he gets comfortable in leading role
The wicketkeeper's 129 put India 'A' in command in their match against Yorkshire.
Curran went unsold in February's IPL auction but Kolkata Knight Riders recruited him for around $247,000 earlier this month to replace injured Australian paceman Mitchell Starc.
Eighteen-year-old Surrey batsman Dominic Sibley was bowled out for 242 against Yorkshire on Friday after entering the record books as the youngest double centurion in English county cricket.
Doctors have told the former England opening batsman that he had a good chance of beating cancer in his neck after three months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
They respectively scored 11 and 10 runs in their County matches.
Adil Rashid was, on Tuesday, named as the sole specialist spinner in the England playing XI for the series opener against India, creating more pressure on the leg-spinner after his controversial recall to the Test side.
Lonely Planet has nammed Sikkim the best region to visit in 2014. Here are some snapshots from one of India's most beautiful state.
The former England bowler bagged 6 for 81 as Yorkshire beat Northamptonshire by an innings and 343 runs in the County championship.
'I learnt a lot from him, he helped me a lot,' said the Indian left-hander.
The left-hander made just 11 runs but was lucky to end up on the winning side as Yorkshire scored an 18-run victory over Kent.
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Yuvraj Singh came up with a sterling performance to guide Yorkshire to a win over Derbyshire in\n\ntheir opening Twenty20 Cup game.
The likes and dislikes of the two women who will battle it out in Wimbledon's women's final on Saturday have the media scrambling to find titbits on the players who started the tournament as outsiders.
Leeds United returned to the Premier League after a 16-year absence on Friday as West Bromwich Albion's loss at Huddersfield Town guaranteed them a top-two finish in the Championship. Three times English champions, Leeds were relegated from the Premier League in 2004 after hitting financial trouble and being forced to sell a host of big-name players such as Robbie Keane, Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer.
The selectors included uncapped Yorkshire batsman Gary Ballance, Warwickshire opener Varun Chopra and seamers James Harris and Chris Wright in the squad, which will be cut to 15 players by May 5.
Kevin Pietersen admitted he had made mistakes over the incident that saw him dropped by England on disciplinary grounds last season before he returned to the side.
Kevin Pietersen's future in international cricket was thrown into further doubt on Tuesday after he was not picked in the 16-man England Test squad for the forthcoming four-Test match series in India.
England pace bowler Tim Bresnan has had 'uncomplicated' elbow surgery that should enable him to return to action early in the new season, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday.
The Indian Premier League Players' Auction auctions are always 'tricky' and going unsold does not make him feel frustrated, reveals Cheteshwar Pujara as he fights the public perception of being a red-ball specialist.
Labour MP Jo Cox was holding a meeting with constituents, in her local constituency when an altercation reportedly led to the attack.
