Cricket News

Twenty wickets fell on day one of the Vitality County Championship match at Taunton with Essex rolling Somerset for 128 after they had been bundled out for 156.

Ireland and Scotland will meet in a Women's T20 World Cup shootout with the winners to secure a spot in the tournament proper in Bangladesh this autumn and the losers eliminated.

Worcestershire have invited fans to sign a book of condolence in memory of Josh Baker following the 20-year-old spinner's shock death on Thursday.

Freya Kemp will return to the England Women fold for the forthcoming Vitality IT20 and Metro Bank ODI series against Pakistan after the white-ball squads were named on Friday.