Match Facts July 6, 2017Start time: 0945 local (0415GMT) Tendai Chatara’s discipline has earned him four of Zimbabwe’s eight wickets in the series so far © AFP Big Picture One comfortable pursuit of 317 for Zimbabwe, one crushing home victory set up by Sri Lanka’s spinners – not much about this series has been predictable, and the teams are now about to venture into more uncertainty. In the past two…
The shoulder complaint that ruled Meg Lanning out of at least the match against Pakistan has been a long-running condition © Getty Images/ICC A shoulder problem has forced Australia’s captain Meg Lanning out of at least the Word Cup match against Pakistan in Leicester later on Wednesday. Rachael Haynes will be included to lead the side in her absence. Lanning aggravated a long-running shoulder complaint at training ahead of the…
Surrey 113 for 1 (Stoneman 57) trail Hampshire 648 for 7 dec (Bailey 161, Adams 144, Vince 104) by 535 runsScorecard George Bailey’s 161 piled the pressure on Surrey © Getty Images At the Ageas Bowl a year ago, Gareth Batty decided that Surrey’s first innings should bat on and on, until after tea on the first day. The reason was simple: “To piss their batters off”. Only when Surrey…
Gloucestershire 141 (de Lange 3-54, van der Gugten 3-39, Hogan 3-25) and 137 for 0 (Bancroft 62*, Dent 68* ) beat Glamorgan 117 (Donald 39, Payne 3-37) and 158 ( Norwell 6-38) by 10 wicketsScorecard Liam Norwell ensured Gloucestershire stayed on top © Getty Images Gloucestershire eased to a 10-wicket victory over Glamorgan inside two days at Cheltenham College. Having been set 135 to win, shortly after lunch on the…
Middlesex 302 for 6 (Eskinazi 178*) trail Warwiclshire 334 (Clarke 83, Lamb 51) by 32 runsScorecard Stevie Eskinazi made a career-best 178 to carry the fight for Middlesex © Getty Images The considerable fillip Warwickshire drew from dismissing Sam Robson for a third-ball duck was counterbalanced by a century from Stevie Eskinazi in which the South Africa-born batsman produced some good, aggressive strokeplay but also had to show some gritty…
Yorkshire159 for 7 (C Overton 5-78) trail Somerset268 by 109 runs Scorecard Craig Overton kept Somerset on top at North Marine Road © Getty Images The cricket on the truncated second day of this game was descript in every marvellous respect. There was a drear morning, a late start and a greenish pitch. Boundaries were rare as lottery wins and bowlers mean as winter sleet. Yet the most expensive member…
Durham 274 for 8 (Richardson 64, Coughlin 62*, Tahir 5-98) trail Derbyshire 368 (Critchley 102, Godleman 98, Madsen 54) by 94 runsScorecard Imran Tahir made an instant impression for Derbyshire © AFP Imran Tahir raised Derbyshire’s hopes of back-to-back victories by taking five wickets on his debut as Durham collapsed on the second day of the Division Two match at Chesterfield. The South African, who is playing for his sixth…
Chris Gayle has not played international cricket since the end of the 2016 World T20 © AFP West Indies have recalled Chris Gayle to their 13-man squad for the one-off T20I against India. The match is set to take place in Gayle’s home ground of Sabina Park in Jamaica. Gayle came in at the expense of Lendl Simmons, who scored 6, 17* and 15 in the series against Afghanistan, West…
Northamptonshire 180 for 1 (Duckett 101*, Newton 57) trail Kent 701 for 7 dec (Dickson 318, Denly 182) by 521 runsScorecard Sean Dickson made the highest score by a Kent batsman since 1934 © Getty Images Sean Dickson plundered 318, Kent’s highest individual score on home soil, and put on 382 with Joe Denly in the biggest partnership in the county’s history as a host of records tumbled at Beckenham….
Making his Test debut in Chennai, Liam Dawson offered England control with the ball and scored an unbeaten 66 in their first innings © AFP England look likely to go into a Lord’s Test with two spinners for the first time in almost a quarter of a century on Thursday. Barring a late change of heart, it seems Joe Root’s first Test as captain will see Liam Dawson bat at…