Cricket

LONDON (AP) — England captain Ben Stokes has been ruled out of the fifth and final test against India with a right shoulder injury. Ollie Pope, who bats at No.

LONDON (AP) — The sales of stakes in six of the eight teams in The Hundred competition have been completed, the England and Wales Cricket Board said Wednesday. The eight partnerships are valued at 975 million pounds (around $1.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (AP) — Former Zimbabwe cricket captain Brendan Taylor is set to return to international cricket after serving a 3 1/2-year ban for breaching the sport's anti-corruption code.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Big-hitting allrounder Mitchell Owen is set to play one-day cricket for Australia after making an impressive international debut in the Twenty20 series sweep in the West Indies .

LONDON (AP) — India head coach Gautam Gambhir clashed Tuesday with ground staff at the Oval cricket stadium ahead of the final test match of an occasionally fractious series against England. England leads the series 2-1.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) — Australia completed a sweep of the Twenty20 international cricket series with a three-wicket victory over West Indies on Monday to finish its Caribbean tour with an 8-0 record.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — India's Rishabh Pant has been ruled out of the fifth and final test against England with a foot fracture.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A roller-coaster of a test cricket series between England and India is, fittingly, going down to the wire.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) — Half-centuries to Cameron Green and Josh Inglis led Australia to a three-wicket win over West Indies and extended its lead to 4-0 in a five-match Twenty20 international series on Saturday.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ben Stokes hit another century. Chris Woakes was in sight of a hat trick before he'd even completed the first over of India's second innings.