Bad light brought about an early finish for the second successive day in the third and final Test at The Oval, frustrating an England side seeking to complete their first men’s summer Test whitewash since 2004.
Joe Root’s brace of hundreds at Lord’s took him past Sir Alastair Cook as England’s all-time leading Test centurion. Here we take a look at the stats behind his extraordinary Test career.
Master and apprentice is a phrase you often hear when Joe Root and Harry Brook are at the crease together. Yet the roles could so readily have been reversed in the Second Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s, after the Decision Review System had both men lbw to balls clipping leg-stump.
SUSSEX GO into the final day of their County Championship match against Derbyshire as clear favourites to extend their lead in the second division with their sixth victory of the season.