Month: April 2016

Gloucestershire have announce the signing of a five-year partnership agreement with the Brightside Group which will see the County Ground renamed as The Brightside Ground, Bristol. The deal will also see a new shirt sponsorship for the team’s T20 kit and Gloucestershire chief executive Will Brown hailed the agreement as an “historic moment” for the county. “The partnership with the Brightside Group represents an historic moment for Gloucestershire Cricket,” Brown…

Darren Sammy will awake to hear his players are invited to meet the WICB for the first time © Getty Images By claiming their second World Twenty20 title in dramatic circumstances, West Indies’ breakaway T20 players may have finally won themselves the place they have been seeking at the WICB negotiating table. Reacting to the extreme criticism thrown at him and his board, the WICB president Dave Cameron announced that…

03 April 2016 | David Clark    Tweet                 Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the final over to deny England at the death in a dramatic World Twenty20 final in Kolkata. The West Indies were brilliant with the ball and in the field as they restricted England to 155 for nine after Darren Sammy won his sixth toss out of six in the tournament and…

England captain Eoin Morgan felt his side came up short with the bat rather than the ball in the ICC World Twenty20 final. Carlos Brathwaite smashed four successive sixes in the final over to clinch a dramatic four-wicket victory for the West Indies in Kolkata. Ben Stokes was the unfortunate bowler, but Morgan believes England’s problems stemmed from a batting display that saw them slump to 23 for three and…

Afghanistan’s success at World T20 2016 has spurred a bigger push for more opportunities for Associate teams © Associated Press ICC chief executive David Richardson said that he believes the current format of the World T20 has proven to be a success, but says he will push for at least two more teams to be added to the first and second round in future competitions. Richardson made the comments ahead…

Head Coach Trevor Bayliss was optimistic about England’s future despite the disappointment of seeing West Indies pip his side to the ICC World Twenty20. Carlos Brathwaite thrashed four sixes in a row to grab a dramatic victory in the final over, after England had posted 155 for nine. Joe Root had underpinned England’s total with 54, and then took two quick wickets to derail the Windies’ chase. However, Marlon Samuels…

Ben Stokes on his haunches in disappointment as Carlos Brathwaite hit him for four consecutive sixes in the final over © Getty Images Eoin Morgan, the England captain, says his team will share the pain of their agonising final-over defeat in the World T20 final against West Indies in Kolkata, just as he hopes they will share the triumphs he believes they will produce in the future. It was England’s…