Somerset 224 and 101 for 4 need 161 more runs to beat Yorkshire 202 and 283 (Ballance 98*, Handscomb 70, Bess 5-80) lead by 105 runsScorecard Gary Ballance set Somerset a testing target with another captain’s innings © PA Photos Many England fans are still on his case. “Ugly cricketer,” they carp about Gary Ballance. In Yorkshire, the criticism is peremptorily waved aside. As far as Yorkshire are concerned, ugly…
Northamptonshire 218 (Newton 67, McKerr 5-87) and 247 for 4 (Newton 108, Wakely 79) lead Derbyshire 176 (Hughes 62*, Sanderson 5-52) by 289 runsScorecard Ben Sanderson spearheaded Northants’ victory © Getty Images Ben Sanderson took four second-innings wickets to push Northamptonshire back into contention for promotion from Division Two of the Specsavers County Championship with a 128-run win over Derbyshire at Wantage Road. Sanderson’s 4 for 31 on day three…
What stood about Ben Stokes’ century against Australia was that he took his time to build an innings secure in his knowledge that he had the power and range of shots to make up time later in the chase © Getty Images Experience of playing in the IPL helped Ben Stokes compile the “best innings” of his ODI career to date, against Australia at Edgbaston. Stokes plundered an unbeaten century…
Angelo Mathews’ calm demeanour ensured Sri Lanka didn’t panic after India seemed to claw their way back © Getty Images Amid Danushka Gunathilaka’s blazing recall, Kusal Mendis’ elegance, Kusal Perera’s hamstring injury and Asela Gunaratne’s match-clinching cameo, his went a little unnoticed. Angelo Mathews was steadfast in Sri Lanka’s superbly-paced chase against India, a reassuring presence for an innings that could still have gone wrong despite the excellence around him….
Match Facts June 12, 2017Start time 10.30am local (0930 GMT) Play 01:45 ‘There’s no room for complacency’ – Mathews Big Picture And so, it has transpired that two fundamentally flawed sides – seventh and eighth on the ODI rankings – now have the chance to scramble over the other into the semi-final of the most competitive one-day tournament around. How this came about deserves a brief recap. Pakistan, who barely…
Glamorgan 381 (Rudolph 111, Cooke 93, Salter 80*, Tongue 6-97, Leach 4-85) and 18 for 1 beat Worcestershire 267 (Cox 93, Barnard 60, van der Gugten 4-66) and 129 (Hogan 5-38)Scorecard Michael Hogan’s captaincy of Glamorgan has begun in fine style © Cricket Australia/Getty Images Glamorgan secured back to back victories under new skipper Michael Hogan as they completed a nine wicket success over faltering Worcestershire with a day and…
South Africa 191 (De Kock 53, Bhuvneshwar 2-23, Bumah 2-28) v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Faf du Plessis was involved in two run-outs before playing one on © PA Photos Faf du Plessis scored 36 in the quarter-final of the 2011 World Cup. He scored 36 in the virtual quarter-final of the 2017 Champions Trophy. On both those occasions, he was involved in the run-out of AB de Villiers….
Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar, who make up the Cricket Advisory Committee, have been tasked with selecting India’s next coach The three-member cricket advisory committee (CAC) tasked with finding a new coach for India will first attempt to keep hold of the incumbent, Anil Kumble. ESPNcricinfo understands the CAC will speak to both Kumble and captain Virat Kohli in an attempt to resolve differences that have emerged between…
Toss India chose to bowl v South AfricaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 03:30 Agarkar: Ashwin’s ability was never in question Both sides came into this virtual quarter-final unsure of how hard to go and when to go hard when batting first. But India were spared that “stress”, as Virat Kohli put it, as they won their first toss of the tournament and chose to chase on the ground that…
“We want to win the World Cup because it would be a revolution kind of a thing for Indian women’s cricket” © PTI When a 23-year old Mithali Raj captained the India women’s team for the first time at a World Cup, in 2005, little would she have imagined of leading the side to their best finish – runners-up to Australia – in a global tournament till date. Twelve years,…