Gloucestershire 409 (Hammond 112, Bancroft 53, Kaul 5-76) and 319 for 5 dec (Bancroft 130*, van Buuren 67) beat Northamptonshire 171 (de Lange 5-42) and 301 (Gay 74, Nair 61, Procter 60, de Lange 3-58, Singh Dale 3-69) by 256 runs Gloucestershire pace bowler Marchant de Lange led the charge with three wickets to set…
Match abandoned without a ball bowled Gujarat TItans vs Kolkata Knight Riders A combination of lightning and rain forced the first abandoned game of IPL 2024 in Ahmedabad on Monday, and in the process confirmed two things: Kolkata Knight Riders’ top-two finish in the league stage and Gujarat Titans’ elimination from playoff contention. Only a…
Kent 407 (Leaning 179*, Bell-Drummond 67, Swanepoel 54, Leach 3-37) and 146 for 4 (Finch 48*) drew with Worcestershire 618 for 7 dec (Holder 123*, Roderick 117, Waite 100*, Hose 90, Kashif 72, Evison 3-58) Kent survived some occasional alarms to bat out a draw with Worcestershire on the final day of their Vitality County…
Stuart Broad has warned that England’s onus on blooding a new generation of fast bowlers in the wake of James Anderson’s retirement could leave Ben Stokes with a “quite scary” lack of experience for the forthcoming Test series against West Indies and Sri Lanka. Anderson is set to play against West Indies at Lord’s on…
Match details Delhi Capitals (6th place) vs Lucknow Super Giants (7th place)Delhi, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT) Big picture: LSG, DC or neither? Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants are in a tough spot ahead of their game on Tuesday. DC need to win big, and then hope an improbable sequence of other results falls in…
Nottinghamshire 503 (Hameed 247*, Stone 90, Balderson 4-102) and 81 for 1 beat Lancashire 331 (Jennings 91, Bruce 73, Stone 3-56) and 252 (Hurst 104, Hartley 50, Pennington 4-61) by 72 runs A maiden first-class century from young wicketkeeper Matthew Hurst salvaged some pride for Lancashire but could not stop Nottinghamshire completing their first victory…
Hampshire 503 (Orr 126, Prest 102, Brown 67, Parkinson 4-176) and 62 for 2 drew with Durham 432 (Bedingham 144, Lees 71, Raine 52*, Dawson 5-184, Organ 4-101) Felix Organ and James Vince put on 53 to take Hampshire out of a mini-collapse to complete a Vitality County Championship stalemate with Durham which had been…
Kemar Roach believes that James Anderson will be remembered as “one of the greatest” fast bowlers in history when he retires from international cricket this summer – but has challenged his West Indies team-mates to “ruin” Anderson’s final Test match by beating England at Lord’s in July. With Shamar Joseph and Alzarri Joseph also at…
While the ongoing IPL may be a certifiable run-fest, the current school of thought surrounding the upcoming T20 World Cup is that conditions in the USA and Caribbean might be a little less batter-friendly. At least, that’s the working assumption Sri Lanka’s selectors were going on when they named their 15-man squad for the tournament….
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Netherlands have called up Daniel Doram, the Leeward Islands left-arm spinner, to a full T20I squad for the first time. The T20 World Cup clashes with the start of the Vitality Blast, England’s county T20 competition, which has forced Associate players to choose between their primary employers and their national teams. Bas de Leede (Durham)…
The other members of England’s World Cup squad who have been at the IPL – Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Phil Salt and Reece Topley – will begin to return home in the next few days and are expected back in the country this weekend. They will meet up in…