Cricket News

After a questionable decision by Tim Paine to insert England at The Oval was the final Ashes Test an afterthought after a long cricketing summer?

Josh Davey's five-wicket haul led Somerset to a crushing 298-run victory over Yorkshire to propel them to the top the Specsavers County Championship Division One table.

David Lloyd says Joe Root will be "angry" at failing to turn a fifty into a hundred once again, while he thinks Joe Denly is on borrowed time in the England team...

Joe Root's record reprieves, Mitchell Marsh's masterly execution and that toss. Here's the pick of day one at the Oval...

Sir Andrew Strauss has been appointed as the chair of the England and Wales Cricket Board committee.

Summer 2020 will see the launch of The Hundred - an action-packed and unmissable new cricket competition taking place across England and Wales.

Joe Root went through to a 45th Test fifty, having earlier been dropped three times by Australia, as England reached tea on day one of the fifth Ashes Test on 169-3.

Joe Root was given two let-offs by an uncharacteristically sloppy Australian effort in the field - dropped on 24 and again on 25 - as England reached lunch on day one of the fifth Ashes Test on 86-1.

The latest score from the fifth Ashes Test between England and Australia at the Kia Oval. Watch on Sky Sports The Ashes.

Outgoing coach Trevor Bayliss insists England are working hard on their Test-match batting - but need help from pitches in county cricket.