https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45291892

 

:lol:

Oh blimey, that's the most bizarre delivery I've ever seen.

Alastair Cook has announced his retirement from international cricket.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45388727

33 seems quite young for him to do this but he's been struggling for runs and might have been dropped soon. He's had a great test career. I would expect him to do the same as Marcus Trescothick did and score lots of runs in county cricket for the next few years.

A fantastic century from Cook who made 147 in his final innings before international retirement.

A very classy innings from Rahul. He’s another good player who hasn’t shown his quality in this series.

Well played Rishabh Pant on his first century in test cricket.

A fantastic century from Cook who made 147 in his final innings before international retirement.

Thereby becoming only the fifth player to score centuries in their first and last Test match. Curiously, the previous four all made their debut against England.

Ben Stokes and Alex Hales have been charged with bringing the game into disrepute by the England and Wales Cricket Board following an incident outside a Bristol nightclub.

Big win for Afghanistan over Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup

 

Not sure them being 100/1 outsiders for next year's World Cup and Sri Lanka 16/1.

Well done to Worcestershire Rapids who won the T20 Blast for the first time in their history on Saturday.

 

 

Ben Stokes and Alex Hales are in England's one-day squad to tour Sri Lanka this autumn:

 

Full ODI squad:

 

 

Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Sam Curran (Surrey), Tom Curran (Surrey), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Ben Stokes (Durham), Olly Stone (Warwickshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham).

Durham wer bowled out twice yesterday in the County Championship. There scores of 61 and 66 (in a defeat by an innings and 194 runs against Leicestershire) are their lowest two scores ever in first-class cricket.

Big win for Afghanistan over Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup

 

Not sure them being 100/1 outsiders for next year's World Cup and Sri Lanka 16/1.

 

And today they beat Bangladesh by a huge margin. I think Rashid Khan is the best bowler in the world right now in T20 or 50 over cricket.

Afghanistan are certainly an improving side.

Warwickshire have won Division Two of the 2018 County Cricket Championship.

India have won the Asia Cup with the final against Bangladesh decided on the last ball. It was one of several close finishes to matches in the tournament so it's a shame it wasn't shown on any TV channel here (and I did check to see if any of the Asian channels you can get on the Sky satellite were showing it).

Andrew Strauss has stepped down as England's director of cricket after three and a half years in the role.

Roy

Bairstow

Root

Morgan

Stokes

Buttler

Ali

Woakes

Dawson

Rashid

Stone

 

 

Sri Lanka won the toss and will bowl in England's first ODI.

And the first ODI was abandoned due to heavy rain.