Month: June 2017

Mohammad Amir is set to make his debut against Middlesex in the Specsavers County Championship day/night match next week. The seamer is available for all NatWest T20 Blast and Specsavers County Championship matches until the end of the season. Mohammad Amir is set to make his debut against Middlesex in the Specsavers County Championship day/night match next week. Essex Head Coach Chris Silverwood said, “I think everyone has seen in…

Players and owners during the T20 Global League Launch in London Two South African businessmen, two IPL franchises, two PSL franchises, and representatives from Hong Kong and Dubai were unveiled as the owners of the eight teams in South Africa’s T20 Global League. The owners, the cities and their marquee players were unveiled at an event in London on Monday. Durban, Benoni, Pretoria, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Port…

Middlesex 446 (Robson 159, Stirling 111, Sidebottom 3-69, Rashid 3-94) beat Yorkshire 208 (Ballance 69*, Higgins 3-32, Finn 3-58) and 174 (Rayner 4-35) by an innings and 64 runsScorecard Tim Murtagh undermined Yorkshire’s hopes of survival at Lord’s © Getty Images On the day of the summer solstice, the reigning county champions have their first victory of summer. Yorkshire were not defeated so much as eviscerated and did not even…

Pakistan outplayed India in every department of the game and defeated their arch-rivals by a whopping 180 runs. It is the first time ever that Pakistan have managed to get the better of India in the final of an ICC tournament. If the 2017 Champions Trophy were to have had another two games, Pakistan might be scoring 750 and bowling teams out for negative 12 by the end of it….

Gruny was USA’s leading scorer at their last international competition in 2012 © Peter Della Penna Batsmen Nadia Gruny and Shebani Bhaskar anchor a USA batting unit ready to resume international competition for the first time in more than five years after they were named in a 14-player squad for the ICC Europe T20 Qualifier this August. The squad was picked after the conclusion of a series of trials held…

This is one victory that Pakistan fans will remember for long. It has been an ultra-quick turnaround from no-hopers to champions for the Pakistan players and the manner in which the team won the match was really impressive. Rarely have I seen Pakistan deliver such a clinical performance in a tournament decider and annihilating hot favourite India came as a pleasant surprise. This Pakistan side has made me and the…

Ajit Wadekar was India’s first full-time coach George Stroud/Daily Express / © Getty Images Ajit Wadekar, 1992-96 Wadekar’s tenure marked the decisive shift from ad hoc team managers running Indian teams on a tour-wise basis to having a full-time coach who had a longer tenure. Over his four-year tenure, Wadekar forged a strong working relationship with captain Mohammad Azharuddin, and India dominated at home for the best part of this…

England women 132 for 3 (Beaumont 51*) beat New Zealand women 130 (Martin 36, Marsh 3-7) by seven wicketsScorecard Tammy Beaumont struck an unbeaten 51 off 76 balls © Getty Images England Women finalised their preparation for the ICC Women’s World Cup with a seven-wicket victory over New Zealand at Derby, the venue for Saturday’s opener against India. A disciplined and collective bowling performance saw New Zealand dismissed for 130…

Nottinghamshire 548 for 9 (Patel 247, Taylor 61, Broad 50*, Klein 6-142) beat Leicestershire 134 (Pattinson 5-33) and 134 (Fletcher 3-16) by an innings and 280 runsScorecard James Pattinson claimed an eight-wicket match haul © Getty Images Another ruthlessly efficient bowling performance from Nottinghamshire swept them to their fifth victory of the Specsavers County Championship season and strengthened their lead at the top of the Division Two table. After being…