Month: April 2017

Lancashire 109 (C Overton 5-47, Groenewald 3-8) and 463 (Livingstone 168, Davies 130, Gregory 5-74) beat Somerset 278 (Elgar 113*, McLaren 4-76) and 130 (Hildreth 43, McLaren 4-37) by 164 runsScorecard Ryan McLaren might be unsung but he made a matchwinning contribution © Getty Images The signing of Ryan McLaren as Lancashire’s overseas player last October did not prompt wild rejoicing in Chorley or street-parties in Bacup. “Who’s this McLaren,…

Warwickshire 332 and 435 for 8 dec (Bell 99, Ambrose 85, Barker 70*, T Curran 4-112) drew with Surrey 437 (Sangakkara 105, Sibley 56)Scorecard Ian Bell will feel that Warwickshire are on their knees no longer © Getty Images They ended the game with fewer points than their rivals, but it may well have been Warwickshire who left Edgbaston on Monday night the happier side. To have recovered from a…

Rising Pune Supergiant 160 for 6 (Tripathi 45, Rahane 38, Bumrah 2-29, Karn 2-39) beat Mumbai Indians 157 for 8 (Rohit 58, Parthiv 33, Stokes 2-21, Unadkat 2-40) by three runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Ben Stokes finished with figures of 4-1-21-2 © BCCI A spell of clever pace and length variations from Ben Stokes, which included a wicket-maiden and a tight, match-turning 19th over, helped Rising Pune Supergiant halt Mumbai…

Hampshire 455 (Vince 147, Berg 99*, Coad 4-71) drew with Yorkshire 231 (Ballance 108, Berg 4-62) and 399 for 6 dec (Ballance 203*, Lees 70)Scorecard Gary Ballance outdid every Yorkshire batsman in history © PA Photos A draw that felt like a victory. That’s how Yorkshire ranked this encounter: scoreboard pressure from the off, England’s Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow scoring 18 between them across both innings and Hampshire hellbent…

Irfan Pathan was unsold at the auction in February, after a poor 2016 season with Rising Pune Supergiant © BCCI Gujarat Lions have signed allrounder Irfan Pathan as a replacement for Dwayne Bravo, who was ruled out of the 2017 IPL with a hamstring injury. Irfan, who was unsold at the auction in February at a base price of INR 50 lakhs, posted a photograph of himself wearing a Lions…

Middlesex 507 for 7 dec (Robson 149, Gubbins 101, Eskinazi 100, Simpson 90) and 239 for 3 dec (Robson 77, Gubbins 64, Eskinazi 62) drew with Essex 295 (Lawrence 75, Wheater 64, Finn 4-51) and 160 for 8 (Roland-Jones 3-42)Scorecard Toby Roland-Jones took three wickets on the final day Sarah Ansell / © Getty Images Middlesex were frustrated by a combination of bad light and lower-order resistance as Essex clung…

Durham 419 (Collingwood 97, Jennings 87, Cook 64, Richardson 57, Miles 5-99) and 85 for 4 drew with Gloucestershire 303 (Tavare 61, Dent 59) and 320 (Dent 101, Tavare 55, Onions 4-68)Scorecard Chris Dent drives during his match-saving century © Getty Images Chris Dent completed his 12th first class century as Gloucestershire battled successfully to avoid defeat by Durham on the final day of the Specsavers County Championship match at…

Lunch Pakistan 322 for 5 (Sarfraz 53*, Misbah 47*) lead by West Indies 286 by 36 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Sarfraz Ahmed scored a brisk fifty to help put Pakistan into the lead © AFP It was cautious, streaky and unconvincing, but when did that ever reflect on a scorecard? In the morning session the Pakistan batsmen looked wobbly, especially in the first hour, but managed to take the lead,…