Month: April 2017

Nottinghamshire 305 (Fletcher 92, Pattinson 59, Rushworth 5-54) and 110 for 1 (Smith 60*) beat Durham 162 (Poynter 65, Fletcher 3-23) and 250 (Jennings 102*) by nine wicketsScorecard Keaton Jennings’ first hundred since Mumbai could not protect Durham from defeat © AFP Two comfortable victories; two 22-point returns. It is Easter Monday and the trees in Broad Wood are still to be revealed in all their fragile ambition, yet the…

Match facts Gujarat Lions v Royal Challengers BangaloreTuesday, April 18, 2017Start time 2000 IST Gujarat Lions will have to get past Samuel Badree, especially in the Powerplay © BCCI Head to head Overall Royal Challengers have a 2-1 lead against Lions, including a 144-run victory, the largest margin in the IPL. Royal Challengers lost their one meeting in Rajkot, though, where Lions chased down 181. In the news Aaron Finch…

Middlesex 356 and 278 for 9 dec (Voges 92, Abbott 5-59) drew with Hampshire 438 (Rossouw 99, Carberry 98, Abbott 56, Ervine 53)Scorecard Adam Voges helped keep Hampshire at bay © Getty Images Middlesex began their Specsavers County Championship title defence with a hard-fought draw with Hampshire – after Adam Voges found prolonged support from the tail to stave off defeat. Hampshire had looked set to ease to victory after…

Kent 304 (Dickson 68, Stevens 68, Parnell 51*, Archer 7-67) and 413 for 5 dec (Northeast 173*, Dickson 89, Stevens 71*) beat Sussex 291 (Brown 90, Archer 60, Claydon 4-87) and 200 (Brown 69, Stevens 5-51) by 226 runsScorecard Darren Stevens claimed a five-wicket haul after fifties in each innings © Getty Images On the eve of the 20th anniversary of Darren Stevens‘ first-class debut, the Kent allrounder put the…

Yorkshire 381 (Handscomb 75, Rashid 65, Bresnan 61) beat Warwickshire 178 (Barker 50, Coad 5-52) and 115 (Patel 49*, Coad 5-50) by an innings and 88 runsScorecard Ben Coad claimed a ten-wicket match haul © Getty Images Ashley Giles has warned there will be “no quick fixes” to Warwickshire’s problems and told supporters to expect more pain in the months ahead. Giles, who returned to Warwickshire as director of sport…

Toss: Kings XI Punjab chose to bowl v Sunrisers HyderabadLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Mohammad Nabi became the second Afghanistan player to feature in the IPL © IDI/Getty Images Glenn Maxwell, the Kings XI Punjab captain, has chosen to bowl first against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Both teams come into this match with identical records, having won their first two games of the season, at home,…

Jonny Bairstow has played an ODI and two warm-up games for England so far this year © AFP Andrew Gale has admitted he was “disappointed” by the ECB decision to rest Jonny Bairstow from Yorkshire’s opening rounds of Championship action. Gale, Yorkshire’s new head coach, accepted the absence of Joe Root due to his heavy workload in international cricket. But Bairstow, who has hardly played since the conclusion of England’s…

File photo – Mushfiqur Rahim anchored Rupganj’s innings for the second game in a row © BCB Mushfiqur Rahim picked up his second successive Player-of-the-Match award after his eighth List-A hundred set up Legends of Rupganj‘s 68-run win over Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club at the BKSP-4 ground in Savar. Mushfiqur struck 14 fours and a six during his run-a-ball 134, and in the process he added 225 runs for the…

N Srinivasan is not eligible to be a BCCI office bearer anymore, according to the Lodha Committee’s recommendations © PTI Former BCCI president N Srinivasan will not be allowed to attend ICC board meetings later this month as the Indian board’s representative after all. That ruling was delivered on Monday by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, which had been asked by the Committee of Administrators to clarify whether…