Month: June 2017

Lancashire 593 (Vilas 244, Davies 115, McLaren 107; Berg 4-111) beat Hampshire 395 (Bailey 127, Abbott 97*) and 168 (Anderson 4-20, McLaren 3-41, Jarvis 3-49) by an innings and 30 runsScorecard James Anderson’s second-innings figures of 4 for 20 confirmed his return to fitness © Getty Images The final day of this game began with Hampshire’s batsmen hoping that the weather might save them only to find the Mancunian climate…

Afghanistan and Ireland may not play the new Test league if the ICC Board ratifies the current proposal © International Cricket Council Efforts to contextualize international cricket are a step closer to reality after the ICC’s chief executives committee (CEC) worked out a viable schedule for a Test and ODI league. Option C, as the proposal is known, sees a rolling Test league starting in 2019, in which the top…

Durham 402 (Clark 109, de Lange 5-95) and 158 for 1 (Cook 89*, Steel 51) beat Glamorgan 295 (Selman 103, Rushworth 5-52) and 263 (Ingram 70*, Carey 49) by nine wicketsScorecard Jack Burnham was at the crease as Durham sealed their first win of the season © Getty Images Durham coasted to their first Specsavers County Championship win of the season when they made light work of reaching a target…

This effectively means that the Afghanistan and Ireland are now the 11th and 12th members of Test match cricket.The last team to be granted such a status was Bangladesh which was almost two decades ago.Afghanistan and Ireland witnessed a historic occasion in the game of cricket when their respective cricket boards – the Afghanistan Cricket Board and Cricket Ireland, were confirmed as Full Members of the International Cricket Council. This…

Worcestershire 336 (Clarke 142, Leach 57*) and 401 for 6 (Mitchell 142, Clarke 110*) beat Kent 260 (Coles 47) and 474 (Denly 227, Rouse 68) by four wicketsScorecard Joe Clarke’s unbeaten 110 sealed a memorable win © Getty Images Joe Clarke sealed back-to-back centuries as he and Daryl Mitchell powered Worcestershire to the victory that lifts them into the Specsavers County Championship Division Two promotion places as they overcame Kent…

India captain Virat Kohli, a couple of days after Anil Kumble stepping down as India coach, has broken his silence and said “Anil bhai has taken the decision to step out and we will respect that decision”. During the Champions Trophy, when quizzed on the matter, Kohli maintained silence and said there are plenty of speculations going around and they are by people who are not even part of the…

England will get USD 266 million less than India while six other cricket boards, Australia, Pakistan, West Indies, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, will get USD 128 million each. Zimbabwe will get only USD 94 million. The ICC has agreed to give BCCI USD 405 million as per its new revenue sharing model which was confirmed during the international board’s annual conference in London. ICC had earlier decided to…

Afghanistan and Ireland could join the ranks of full Test-playing nations if they receive the backing of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) conference on Thursday. Afghanistan and Ireland could join the ranks of full Test-playing nations if they receive the backing of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) conference on Thursday.The body is expected to vote on admitting the two nations into the elite group that is permitted to play in…

With the absence, of Shanon Gabriel, the onus will be on Alzarri Joseph and Jason Holder to lead the pace attack. Joseph is a raw talent and has played only seven ODIs so far but has a decent economy rate of 6.11 and an average of 32.08 and strike rate of 31.5 West Indies will host India for a five-match One-day International (ODI) series in the Caribbean Islands. With the…