English cricket

England have rested Root, their top scorer in the final of the 2016 World T20, for next month’s five-match Twenty20 series in New Zealand, while naming the uncapped strokemaker Tom Banton read more

The England and Wales Cricket Board faced huge public criticism for suggesting the 100-balls-per-side competition was aimed at attracting a new audience as opposed to existing fans. read more

England assistant coach Paul Farbrace is to leave his role at the end of the ongoing tour of West Indies to join county side Warwickshire as sport director read more

Alastair Cook Cook, spoke about getting emotional as he broke the news to his teammates after the series-clinching win over India at Southampton on Sunday and the adulation he has got since then. read more

Three from the current Test team find place in the side chosen by cricket fans across England from a list of 100 that included WG Grace, the father of English cricket. read more

Morne Morkel took five for 60, on his way to match figures of nine for 120 as Surrey won by an innings and 183 runs on the third day at Trent Bridge. read more

A spokesman for the ECB, English cricket’s national governing body, dismissed reports that the 100-ball competition will feature substitutes as speculation. read more

England’s nine-wicket loss to one of the most inexperienced Pakistan teams of recent times further exposed the frailties of a side that seems to have forgotten the basics of Test cricket and how apply itself to the longer form of the game. read more

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) appointed former Kent and Middlesex captain and England Test batsman Ed Smith, who succeeds James Whitaker as selector. read more