Cricket Australia [CA] has reduced the WBBL season to 40 games plus finals to bring it in line with the BBL and fit within a burgeoning women’s cricket calendar, while also creating a new state-based T20 competition that will sit alongside the WNCL (Australia’s female 50-over competition) to create additional player opportunities for domestic players with payments to be raised. CA made the announcements as part of a ten-year Women…
Salt on aggressive approach in powerplay: 'It's about putting the odds in your favour'
Phil Salt brought up his fourth fifty at Eden Gardens in IPL 2024 to help Kolkata Knight Riders roll over Delhi Capitals by seven wickets with 21 balls to spare in their chase of 154. Salt smashed 68 off just 33 balls, with 60 of those runs having come in the powerplay itself. During that phase, he clubbed seven fours and four sixes as KKR raced to 79, which was…
Varun and Salt star in comprehensive KKR win
Kolkata Knight Riders 157 for 3 (Salt 68, Shreyas 33*, Venkatesh 26*, Axar 2-25) beat Delhi Capitals 153 for 9 (Kuldeep 35*, Pant 27, Varun 3-16, Harshit 2-28, Arora 2-29) by seven wickets Having just hosted a run-fest where 262 was chased down with eight balls to spare, Eden Gardens reverted to a former template familiar to fans of its home team, and Kolkata Knight Riders returned to winning ways…
Handscomb run out for 99 as Leicestershire shut out Northamptonshire
Leicestershire 452 for 8 dec (Handscomb 99, Rehan 85, Kimber 65, Scriven 54*, Sanderson 4-92) drew with Northamptonshire 453 for 7 dec (Bartlett 126*, Gay 88, Procter 64) Australian Test batter Peter Handscomb and England allrounder Rehan Ahmed played the starring roles as Leicestershire snuffed out Northamptonshire’s hopes of bowling themselves to a first Division Two victory of a Vitality County Championship season so-far dominated by rain-affected draws. Leicestershire replied…
Ollie Price fifty frustrates Middlesex ambition
Gloucestershire 322 (Hammond 81, van Buuren 75, Brooks 3-55) and 127 for 3 (Price 52*) drew with Middlesex 203 (de Lange 6-49) and 449 for 7 dec (Higgins 155, Holden 111, Eskinazi 65*) Gloucestershire’s long wait for a Vitality County Championship victory on home soil continued as their Second Division match against Middlesex at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol petered out into a draw. On a day which began…
Chris Jordan set for T20 World Cup recall as Chris Woakes misses out
Chris Jordan is set for an England recall as part of their provisional T20 World Cup squad, which will be announced on Tuesday. Jordan earned the last of 88 T20I caps at the end of the 2023 summer against New Zealand, and missed the white-ball tour of the Caribbean in December. However, with Jamie Overton ruled out through injury, Jordan is the beneficiary as a bowler capable of valuable cameos…
Lammonby-Umeed stand holds off Worcestershire on final afternoon
Somerset 309 for 9 dec (Banton 92, Holder 3-72) and 190 for 4 (Lammomby 81*, Umeed 60) drew with Worcestershire 451 for 9 dec (Roderick 122, Libby 97, Ball 3-72) Tom Lammonby continued his excellent start to the season and played a major role in Somerset earning a hard-fought draw against newly promoted Worcestershire at Kidderminster. Lammonby dug in to score his third half-century of the season in addition to…
Jacob Bethell's best puts victory beyond Nottinghamshire's hopes
Nottinghamshire 400 (Duckett 218, Haynes 74, Slater 65, Hannon-Dalby 5-78) and 75 for 1 drew with Warwickshire 361 (Bethell 93, Barnard 69, James 3-65, Pennington 3-74) Another stalemate landed in the ocean of early-season Vitality Championship draws as the match between Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire petered out at Edgbaston. In reply to 400 all out, Warwickshire extended their first innings to 361, Jake Bethell posting a career-best 93 (163 balls), before…
Wayne Madsen, Aneurin Donald secure the stalemate for Derbyshire
Yorkshire 450 for 5 dec (Brook 126*, Root 119, Lyth 97) and 59 for 1 drew with Derbyshire 447 (Madsen 104, Donald 97, Chappell 78, Guest 75) Wayne Madsen completed a courageous century and new signing Aneurin Donald added 97 as Derbyshire’s batters comfortably secured a Vitality County Championship draw against Yorkshire at Headingley. Derbyshire started day four on 190 for three in their first-innings reply to Yorkshire’s 450 for…
Browne breaks century drought in style as Essex draw with Durham
Durham 358 (Ackermann 112, Robinson 90, Bedingham 52) and 131 for 2 (Lees 48*) drew with Essex 488 (Browne 184, Khushi 107, Parkinson 5-131) Essex’s Nick Browne scored his first Championship century for over a year and Callum Parkinson collected his maiden five-wicket haul for Durham, but the Vitality County Championship at the Seat Unique Riverside ended in a draw. Such an outcome had always appeared probable once the third…