Month: July 2017

Leicestershire 147 for 8 (Ronchi 46, Delport 37, Rankin 3-26) beat Warwickshire 138 for 8 (Ackermann 3-21) by nine runsScorecard Luke Ronchi’s return to Edgbaston was painful for Birmingham © ICC Leicestershire Foxes continued their 100 per cent start to the NatWestT20Blast campaign with a nine-run win over Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston. Put in, the Foxes raced to 50 in the fifth over thanks to Luke Ronchi‘s 23-ball 46, but…

Malcolm Waller felt the stand between PJ Moor and Sikandar Raza injected positivity © AFP There is a growing excitement in the Zimbabwe camp about a strong match position, which could turn into a historic win. Zimbabwe have lost 12, and never won a Test against Sri Lanka. Although the pitch is not quite as spin-friendly as was expected, a lead of 262, with four wickets in hand, translates to…

Sri Lanka interim coach Nic Pothas: ‘Our guys were phenomenal. They did their jobs’ © AFP The soft ball turned less sharply off the pitch, and the Khettarama surface itself has become easier to bat on. So said Sri Lanka’s interim head coach Nic Pothas, after Zimbabwe turned a scoreline of 59 for 5 into 252 for 6 by the end of the third day. The unbeaten pair of Sikandar…

Zimbabwe 356 and 252 for 6 (Raza 97*, Waller 57*, Herath 4-85) lead Sri Lanka 346 (Tharanga 71, Chandimal 55, Gunaratne 45, Cremer 5-125) by 262 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Sikandar Raza stalled Sri Lanka’s charge with a selection of cross-batted strokes © AFP All through the tour, Sri Lanka have had Zimbabwe cornered, and games have threatened to follow a familiar, one-sided form. Yet all through the tour, Zimbabwe…

Zimbabwe 356 and 252 for 6 (Raza 97*, Waller 57*, Herath 4-85) lead Sri Lanka 346 (Tharanga 71, Chandimal 55, Gunaratne 45, Cremer 5-125) by 262 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Sikandar Raza stalled Sri Lanka’s charge with a selection of cross-batted strokes © AFP All through the tour, Sri Lanka have had Zimbabwe cornered, and games have threatened to follow a familiar, one-sided form. Yet all through the tour, Zimbabwe…

Tea Zimbabwe 356 and 126 for 5 (Raza 45*, Moor 30*, Herath 4-47) lead Sri Lanka 346 (Tharanga 71, Chandimal 55, Gunaratne 45, Cremer 5-125) by 136 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details In four overs before lunch on the third morning, Rangana Herath changed the momentum of the Test © AFP A busy, unbroken 67-run stand between Sikandar Raza and Peter Moor brought Zimbabwe charging back into the game, after…

Innings Zimbabwe 356 lead Sri Lanka 346 (Tharanga 71, Chandimal 55, Gunaratne 45, Cremer 5-125) by 10 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Graeme Cremer claimed his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests © AFP It took Zimbabwe 20.3 overs to claim Sri Lanka’s last three wickets. It took Sri Lanka only 8.3 overs to wipe out Zimbabwe’s top four. In a seven-wicket session, Zimbabwe eked out a 10-run lead, then collapsed…

Mithali Raj has praised her team for bouncing back after successive losses to South Africa and Australia © Getty/ICC Following the 186-win against New Zealand in Derby, Mithali Raj has hailed her team as a “new India”. Needing a win in their final league game to qualify for the semi-finals of the Women’s World Cup, India shrugged off the effects of successive losses to South Africa and Australia and turned…