All-rounder Matthew Waite has joined Worcestershire early from Yorkshire and will be available for their final two County Championship games this season.

 

The 26-year-old agreed a three-year contract to move New Road at the end of the campaign last month.

 

But he has now joined Worcestershire on loan and will be available to face promotion hopefuls Nottinghamshire and Middlesex over the next fortnight.

 

Waite also had a loan spell at Worcestershire earlier this summer.

 

He took six wickets in his sole Championship appearance for the Pears and also played three T20 Blast games.

The returning Alex Hales hit 53 and debutant Luke Wood took 3-24 as England claimed a six-wicket Twenty20 win over Pakistan in their first game in the country for 17 years.

 

Chasing 159 to win, Hales hit seven fours in a controlled and mature knock in his first England appearance since 2019, when he was dropped from the World Cup squad for off-field issues.

England women will play a home Ashes Test against Australia over five days for the first time in June 2023.

 

Previously women's Tests in England have been four days but Trent Bridge will host next year's match in the multi-format series from 22-26 June.

Essex slip from 24-1 to 28-4, including a hat trick for George Balderson (Cook, Lawrence, Critchley)

Lancashire bowl Essex out for 59 to win by 38 runs at Chelmsford.

 

Harry Brook smashed an unbeaten 81 from just 35 balls to help England go 2-1 up in the Twenty20 series against Pakistan with a comfortable 63-run win in Karachi.

 

The Yorkshire batter showed a dazzling array of shots as England posted an imposing 221-3 from their 20 overs - their joint-fifth highest score in T20 cricket.

 

He was ably supported by Ben Duckett, who added 70 from 42 deliveries in an unbroken fourth-wicket stand worth 139 from 69 balls, while debutant opener Will Jacks hit 40 from 22 balls to get England off to a strong start.

England women will play a home Ashes Test against Australia over five days for the first time in June 2023.

 

Previously women's Tests in England have been four days but Trent Bridge will host next year's match in the multi-format series from 22-26 June.

I have been impressed with the venues for this series. The England Women have mostly played at places like Chelmsford, Canterbury, Bristol etc. since I started watching.

 

Now I am seeing Lord's, Oval, Trent Bridge, and Edgbaston.

England captain Heather Knight has denied India's claim that Charlie Dean was warned before her 'Mankad' run-out in their one-day game on Saturday.

 

On Monday India bowler Deepti Sharma said Dean was "repeatedly" warned during her innings about leaving her crease early, prior to the run-out.

 

Knight said that while the incident, which sealed a tense victory for India, was "legitimate" they "shouldn't feel the need to justify it by lying".

 

She added: "No warnings were given."

That match was boiling up to an exciting finish. The Mankad incident really spoilt it.

Agreed on the Mankad incident, left a bit of a sour taste.

 

Seems to me that Charlie Dean is trying to move on from it and others are still discussing it from what I have seen online.

Pakistan took a 3-2 lead in their Twenty20 series against England with a six-run victory in a low-scoring match in Lahore.

 

Chasing just 146 for the win, England never recovered from a poor start in the powerplay that saw them reduced to 31-3 inside five overs.

 

A defiant knock from captain Moeen Ali, who ended unbeaten on 51, left England needing 15 runs off the last over, but some superb death bowling from debutant Aamir Jamal saw them fall just short on 139-7.

Great to see Middlesex promoted back to Division One. :)

Dawid Malan thumped an unbeaten 78 to help England to a comprehensive 67-run win over Pakistan in the seventh Twenty20 international to take the series 4-3.

 

Having been asked to bat first in Lahore, England piled on the runs with Malan making Pakistan pay for dropping him on 29 and 62 as he lifted the visitors to 209-3.

 

Harry Brook's fine form continued as he made 46 not out from 29 balls - having been dropped on 24 - in an unbroken stand of 108 with Malan.

England will travel to South Africa for three rearranged one-day internationals in January and February next year.

 

The three-match series was originally due to be played in 2020 but England flew home after the Twenty20 leg following Covid-19 concerns.

 

The first two matches will be in Bloemfontein on 27 January and 29 January before the third in Kimberley on 1 February.

 

The sides drew a ODI series in England 1-1 earlier this summer.

Azeem Rafiq and Andrew Gale are among five current and former players reprimanded by the England and Wales Cricket Board for historical social media posts of a racist nature.

 

Rafiq had previously apologised for a Facebook exchange from 2011 containing anti-Semitic messages.

 

Former coach Gale was suspended by Yorkshire for a tweet from 2010.

 

England batter Danni Wyatt, Somerset's Jack Brooks and Birmingham Phoenix's Eve Jones have also been reprimanded.

 

All five admitted to the posts.

 

Allegations made by former Yorkshire spinner Rafiq, 31, sparked the racism scandal that has dogged English cricket for much of the past two years.

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England missed the chance to complete a series clean sweep over Australia when their third Twenty20 match in Canberra was curtailed because of rain.

 

Two rain delays had already seen the match reduced to 12 overs per side, but a third delay three overs into Australia's reply saw the game called off.

 

Australia, chasing a Duckworth-Lewis-Stern-revised total of 130, were 30-3 at that stage, with Chris Woakes taking all three wickets, including two in the first two balls of the innings.

 

England had earlier reached 112-2 either side of two stoppages, with captain Jos Buttler smashing 65 from just 41 balls.

 

They now have just one more warm-up game against Pakistan on Monday before their World Cup opener against Afghanistan on 22 October.

Namibia off to a cracking start against Sri Lanka I’m the first match of the T20 World Cup.

Namibia cause an upset in game 1 beating Sri Lanka by 55 runs.

That was a big upset when you consider that Sri Lanka recently won the Asia Cup.