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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSign up for The SpinOur weekly cricket newsletter, which started in 2002, is still going strong. In today’s edition, Jim Wallace remembers some of the supporting actors who have stolen the show in men’s Ashes series.ShareThanks Tanya, hello ...

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature54th over: India 225-4 (Jaiswal 104, Karun 13) Oh my: catch number five goes down for England, in the slips again. Karun is squared up by Overton, Crawley dives delicately left and gets right in the eyeline of ...

Liam Livingstone will become the sixth man to captain England this year, taking the reins for the one-day international series against West Indies, after yet another setback for Jos Buttler in his return from a calf injury.Buttler, 34, has not played senior cricket since England’s failed defence of the ...

An already extraordinary Test series continues to surprise, even when no cricket is being played. If in the circumstances it was predictable that Pakistan might choose to shake up their team, the decision to drop their most famous and experienced player, the former captain Babar Azam, as well as ...

England are monitoring the fitness of Ben Duckett after the opener sustained a suspected dislocated thumb on his left hand while fielding on the second day of the opening Test against Pakistan, forcing him to sit out the start of his team’s first innings.Sources within the England camp said ...

England captain Ben Stokes has been ruled out of the first Test against Pakistan in Multan starting on Monday, and is in doubt for the second, with his recovery from a hamstring tear ahead of schedule but not yet complete.“I tried my hardest to get myself fit for this ...

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature24th over: England 123-1 (Duckett 70, Pope 42) Another false shot for England’s collection: Duckett miscues a pull that goes perilously close to mid-on. It’s another good over from Asitha, who doesn’t deserve his zero in the wickets ...

Ben Duckett was a bit cheeky when he suggested India’s Test team had been inspired by Bazball earlier in the year. But in the second semi-final of the men’s T20 World Cup on Thursday, at Providence Stadium, Guyana, England’s white-ballers meet a side they influenced – or at least ...

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureNepal continue to chip away at the Netherlands, whose captain Scott Edwards has just gone for five. Netherlands are 80 for 4, needing 27 from 28 balls.ShareMatch abandonedThe umpires have given up the ghost, which means both teams ...

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature15th over: Pakistan 126-7 (Iftikhar Ahmed 16, Naseem 0) A double wicket maiden for Liam Livingstone, who looks very chirpy about the whole thing.ShareWICKET! Shaheed Afridid b Livingstone 0 (Pakistan 126-7)Shaheen Afridi opts for a one-kneed plough across ...