Month: May 2017

Gloucestershire 149 and 37 for 1 trail Nottinghamshire 430 for 9 dec (Lumb 117, Pujara 112, Miles 4-123)Scorecard Luke Fletcher was among the wickets as Gloucestershire folded © Getty Images Nottinghamshire seized the initiative on the second day of their Specsavers County Championship match against Gloucestershire at Trent Bridge. The unbeaten Division Two leaders reached 430 for 9 before declaring and then unleashing their potent attack upon the visitors. With…

Dhanuka Pathirana needed 21 balls to get off the mark, but he made a match-winning half-century © Peter Della Penna Canada firmed their case for promotion to Division Two by bouncing back from Friday’s shock loss to Malaysia to thump USA by 96 runs at Kyambogo Oval. USA opted to put Canada in, persuaded by overcast conditions but by the time the first ball was bowled the sun had come…

Glamorgan 225 for 6 (Cooke 63*, Donald 51) trail Durham 342 by 117 runsScorecard Aneurin Donald made a half-century to keep Glamorgan afloat © Getty Images Glamorgan ended the second day of their Specsavers County Championship Division Two match at St. Helen’s in Swansea on 225 for 6, a first innings deficit of 117. Due to a combination of rain and bad light – in stark contrast to the first…

Essex 215 for 3 (Lawrence 78*, Bopara 33*) trail Surrey 369 (Sangakkara 200, S Curran 90, Porter 4-89) by 154 runsScorecard Kumar Sangakkara’s double-century completed Surrey’s first-innings fightback © Getty Images Sometimes, the feeling in county cricket is that the moments to savour come from the same old faces. That’s not necessarily a complaint: when Kumar Sangakkara, five centuries on the bounce, turned his 319th ball to square leg to…

Somerset 197 (Elgar 60, Abbott 4-49, Dawson 4-63) and 39 for 0 need 220 more runs to beat Hampshire 162 and 293 (Carberry 51, Bess 7-117)Scorecard Dom Bess worked his way through Hampshire’s second innings © Getty Images Teenager Dom Bess claimed a career-best 7 for 117 as Hampshire set Somerset 259 to win on the second day of the action-packed Specsavers County Championship match at Taunton. It was the…

Kent369 (Denly 119, Wiese 3-54, Philander 3-78) and 116 for 0 (Bell-Drummond 68*) lead Sussex 164 (Stevens 5-40, Harris 3-37) by 321 runsScorecard Darren Stevens’ ageless performance has put Kent in command at Tunbridge Wells © Getty Images Darren Stevens rumbles to the wicket like a taxi-driver bilked of a good fare and in warm pursuit of the miscreant. The ball, when it emerges from one of his many skilful…

England 330 for 5 (Stokes 101, Buttler 65*, Morgan 45) beat South Africa 328 for 5 (de Kock 98, Miller 71*, de Villiers 52) by two runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Ben Stokes showed no ill-effects of his knee injury as he reached his second ODI hundred © Getty Images England closed out a dramatic victory over the No. 1-ranked ODI side to take the three-match series with one to play…

Northamptonshire 238 and 53 for 2 (Duckett 25*, Buck 6*) trail Worcestershire 434 (Mitchell 161, Buck 5-90) by 143 runsScorecard Daryl Mitchell led Worcestershire’s reply with a century © Getty Images Daryl Mitchell’s 161 on the second day at Wantage Road put Worcestershire on course for a fourth consecutive victory in the Specsavers County Championship. He helped his side take a first-innings lead of 196 and Northamptonshire were 53 for…

Derbyshire 532 for 8 (Godleman 141, Thakor 132, Wilson 97) trail Leicestershire 619 (Cosgrove 188, Eckersley 158, Ackermann 118) by 87 runsScorecard Billy Godleman put Derbyshire back in the contest © Getty Images Billy Godleman led by example as Derbyshire hit back strongly on the third day of the Division Two County Championship match against Leicestershire at Derby. The Derbyshire captain made 141 from 275 balls and with former Leicestershire…

The BCCI clarified that there were no concerns with regard to Yuvraj Singh’s health © AFP Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma will miss India’s first Champions Trophy warm-up match, against New Zealand on Sunday. Yuvraj is down with viral fever, while Rohit will join the squad on Sunday. Both are expected to be ready for India’s second warm-up match, against Bangladesh on May 30. Yuvraj and Rohit were the only…