James Anyon has retired after a 13-year career © Getty Images James Anyon, the Sussex fast bowler, has retired from first-class cricket due to persistent injury problems. Anyon missed all of 2015 and much of the 2014 season and has agreed not to have his contract renewed. Anyon, 32, took 199 first-class wickets for Sussex after joining from Warwickshire in 2010. With an increasingly muscular frame, he topped 50 wickets…
James Anyon has retired after a 13-year career © Getty Images James Anyon, the Sussex fast bowler, has retired from first-class cricket due to persistent injury problems. Anyon missed all of 2015 and much of the 2014 season and has agreed not to have his contract renewed. Anyon, 32, took 199 first-class wickets for Sussex after joining from Warwickshire in 2010. With an increasingly muscular frame, he topped 50 wickets…
Olawale Kuponipe In the lead up to the 2016 domestic season, ecb.co.uk is running a series of features with all 18 first-class counties. Lancashire all-rounder Tom Smith reflects on a memorable promotion campaign, the breed of youngsters coming through, and an off-season highlighted by a new arrival. Ending their 17-year wait for silverware was a special moment for Lancashire in 2015, but the icing on the cake was winning promotion…
The BCCI’s method of distributing funds to member state associations came in for scathing criticism from the Supreme Court © PTI India’s Supreme Court has heavily criticised the BCCI’s method of disbursing funds to state associations saying it was being done without any particular mechanism. In a brief hearing related to the implementation of the Lodha panel recommendations that lasted less than 90 minutes, the court also turned down the…
Joe Root remains top of the overall England MVP Rankings after completing a brilliant winter with an impressive ICC World Twenty20. The Yorkshireman, third in the Test and second in the T20 and MVP standings, is 83 points ahead of Ben Stokes overall. Root’s innings of 54 off 36 balls and two-wicket haul in the final defeat to West Indies on Sunday was the second-best T20 performance in the history…
Sussex seamer James Anyon has decided to retire from first-class cricket after failing to get fit in time for the upcoming season. The 32-year-old, who arrived from Warwickshire in 2010, missed most of the 2014 campaign and did not feature last term due to an ongoing knee injury. Anyon took 199 first-class wickets for Sussex in 63 matches and also made over 1,000 runs in his time at the 1st…
World Twenty20 2016 April 5, 2016 ESPNcricinfo staff ESPNcricinfo’s readers try to sum up the World T20 in a tweet @ESPNcricinfo Greatest 3 weeks of my life, I’ve seen some powerful hard hitters. Kinda sad it’s over — Sylvia McLite (@mclitesylvia) 4 April 2016 @ESPNcricinfo Six. Six. Six. Six. Thank you and goodnight. #WT20InATweet — Gregor (@GregorL24) 5 April 2016 @ESPNcricinfo Best 5 moments in 2016 WT20: 1. Afg beat…
West Indies team after winning the World T20 in Kolkata on Sunday. © Reuters Highlights In cricket, sledging is often a deliberate tool for players to unsettle their opponents. Harsh words, some off the cuff remarks are used to mentally disintegrate the mind of the opposing team. (World T20: Darren Sammy’s West Indies Offered Apology by Mark Nicholas For “Short of Brains” Comment) On some occasions, sledging helps a team…
Sarfraz Ahmed replaces Shahid Afridi, who resigned from his post following Pakistan’s exit from the World T20, as the new captain in the T20 format. © AFP Highlights The Pakistan Cricket Board on Tuesday named Sarfraz Ahmed as the captain of national T20 team. Sarfraz’s appointment come after Shahid Afridi resigned earlier this week after Pakistan failed miserably in the just-concluded T20 World Cup in India. (Waqar Younis Resigns as…
Double whammy: West Indies’ women’s team captain Stafanie Taylor (left) and men’s skipper Darren Sammy pose with the ICC World T20 trophies at Kolkata’s Victoria Memorial. © AFP Highlights How can any West Indies cricket achievement beat the period of dominance in which the Clive Lloyd-led teams won two World Cups (in 1975 and 1979) and were beaten in a Test series only once after 1975-76 (by New Zealand in…