Lunch Sri Lanka 183 and 209 for 2 (f/o) (Karunaratne 136*, Mathews 28*) trail India 622 for 9 dec by 137 runs Teams that follow on have to be a bit like… Johnny Bravo. They can’t think about the last dalliance that had proven way out of their league. All they can do is be ready the next time to go “heeeey mama”. Dimuth Karunaratne understood this, making 100 more…
Barbados Tridents 142 for 7 (Malik 33,Smith 28, Imad 2-16) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 130 for 6 (Simmons 53, Hosein 2-24) by 12 runs Shoaib Malik top-scored for Tridents with 33 © Ashley Allen – CPL T20 / Getty On a day when a sparse crowd of approximately 5,200 cast doubts on the financial viability of the CPL making future visits to Florida, Jamaica Tallawahs wouldn’t mind staying away. Though Tallawahs’…
Barbados Tridents 142 for 7 (Malik 33,Smith 28, Imad 2-16) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 130 for 6 (Simmons 53, Hosein 2-24) by 12 runs Shoaib Malik top-scored for Tridents with 33 © Ashley Allen – CPL T20 / Getty On a day when a sparse crowd of approximately 3,000 cast doubts on the financial viability of the CPL making future visits to Florida, Jamaica Tallawahs wouldn’t mind staying away. Though Tallawahs’…
St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 124 for 6 (Brathwaite 31, Carter 29*) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 123 for 7 (Walton 60) by four wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Rayad Emrit gave the Guyana Amazon Warriors a chance with two wickets in his first two overs © Ashley Allen – CPL T20 / Getty Carlos Brathwaite channeled his World T20 heroics from Kolkata, producing a superb late cameo to lift St Kitts…
Northamptonshire 195 for 4 (Duckett 92*) beat Worcestershire 171 for 6 by 24 runs Ben Duckett helped produce a power-packed end to Northants’ innings © Getty Images Ben Duckett made an unbeaten 92 off 54 balls as NatWest T20 Blast title holders Northamptonshire Steelbacks stepped up their challenge in the North Group by beating Worcestershire Rapids by 21 runs at New Road. Duckett and Steven Crook thrashed 106 in the…
South Africa 220 for 9 (Bavuma 46, Anderson 4-33) trail England 362 (Bairstow 99, Stokes 58, Root 52) by 142 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 01:02 ‘SA doing everything they can to survive’ Honours conferred on active sportsmen don’t always work out as their instigators might have intended – Sir Andy Murray, for one, hasn’t had much to cheer about since being asked to arise in the New Year’s Honours….
Nottinghamshire 184 for 5 (Hales 94) beat Durham 183 for 7 (Richardson 53) by five wickets Alex Hales’ barnstorming white-ball form continued © Getty Images A brutal display of ball-striking from Alex Hales powered the Notts Outlaws to a convincing victory over Durham Jets in the NatWest T20 Blast competition. The England international, who scored an unbeaten 187 to help his county win the Royal London One-Day Cup final a…
Tea South Africa 93 for 3 (Bavuma 30*, du Plessis 6*) trail England 362 (Bairstow 99, Stokes 58, Root 52) by 269 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 01:02 ‘SA doing everything they can to survive’ Temba Bavuma produced a dogged but essential innings of 30 from 62 balls on the second afternoon at Old Trafford to keep alive South Africa’s hopes of first-innings parity in the fourth Investec Test,…
File photo: Aaron Phangiso took his series tally to 10 wickets with a three-wicket haul © AFP Left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso scythed through Afghanistan A’s top-order with 3 for 39 in 10 overs to set up South Africa A’s dominant seven-wicket win, with 80 balls to spare, in the sixth and final round-robin match of the triangular series in Pretoria. After taking out Ihsanullah and Younas Ahmadzai early in their…
Play 01:27 Dasgupta: Hardik should have been brought on earlier The third day’s play at SSC was a good illustration of how difficult winning Test matches can be. You nip an opposition out in under two sessions, you ask them to bat on because you suspect the pitch will slow down quickly, and then the opposition batsmen come with a game plan, attack you, have some luck running, and at…