Month: July 2017

A development tour of South Africa has become the first casualty of Australian cricketers’ pay dispute with the sport’s national governing body. The ACA on Thursday said the Australia A tour will not go ahead, the first time Australian players have boycotted any tour. The Australia ‘A’ side boycotted their tour to South Africa over the pay dispute with sport’s national governing body. The 19-member squad led by Usman Khawaja…

Sussex 262 (McKay 4-59) and 74 for 1 lead Leicestershire 281 (Jordan 3-66, Archer 3-51 ) by 55 runsScorecard Chris Jordan bore a heavy load at Arundel © Getty Images Sussex have a slight advantage over a Leicestershire side looking for their first win of the season after two fluctuating days of their Specsavers County Championship match at Arundel. The hosts conceded a first-innings deficit of 19 after bowling out…

Despite not losing too many wickets, it was the slow run-rate that ultimately saw Sri Lanka lose the match. With this win, India registered their fourth win on the trot. After registering a hat trick of victories the Indian women’s team went one better on Wednesday as they won their fourth game on the trot after beating Sri Lanka by 16 runs. While it was not a comprehensive win for…

Middlesex 334 (Eskinazi 178*) and 234 for 9 ( Compton 49, Higgins 45) beat Warwickshire 334 (Clarke 83, Lamb 51) and 233 (Trott 99, Helm 5-59) by one wicketScorecard Success for Dawid Malan as Middlesex stand-in skipper © Getty Images A match that might have finished in an historic tie just went the way of Middlesex after a tense and absorbing conclusion, providing the defending champions with only a second…

Ramiz Raja feels Test cricket popularity in Asia is not as high it used to be because of the various T20 leagues coming up. Former Pakistan batsman suggested to have a window for World Test Championship. Former Pakistan batsman Ramiz Raja feels that there should be a two-month window only for Test matches to increase the popularity of the longest format of the game and also requested the International Cricket…

Somerset 268 and 281 for 4 dec (Hildreth 101*, Rouse 69) beat Yorkshire 213 (C Overton 5-87, Groenewald 3-43) and 157 (C Overton 4-47, Leach 4-51) by 179 runsScorecard Craig Overton was at the centre of Somerset’s triumph © Getty Images The warnings were there for Somerset in their first match of the season, slightly less than three months ago, when they began their Division One campaign with an eight-wicket…

Durham 301 (Coughlin 73*, Tahir 5-110) and 285 for 4 (Burnham 93*, Pringle 62*, Richardson 62) beat Derbyshire 368 and 214 (Hughes 108) by six wicketsScorecard Jack Burnham guided Durham to victory © Getty Images Jack Burnham and Ryan Pringle showed character as well as skill to take Durham to a six wicket win in an absorbing Division Two match against Derbyshire at Chesterfield. The pair shared an unbroken stand…