Month: August 2017

Worcestershire 190 for 7 (Hastings 51, D’Oliveira 35*) beat Birmingham 185 for 7 (Sibley 49, Santner 3-16) by five runs John Hastings’ 20-ball 51 set up Worcestershire victory © Getty Images Worcestershire Rapids turned current form on its head by beating arch-rivals Birmingham Bears by five runs in the NatWest T20 Blast at Edgbaston. In front of a bumper crowd of 15,113 (a record for a Bears home T20 group…

Glamorgan 181 for 6 (Donald 76, Ingram 42 ) beat Surrey 175 for 7 ( T Curran 51*, Stoneman 34, Finch 33, de Lange 3-29) by six runs Tom Curran almost stole victory for Surrey © Getty Images Aneurin Donald‘s brilliant 76 off 40 balls shone out under the Kia Oval floodlights as Glamorgan strengthened their position at the top of the NatWest T20 Blast’s South Group table by squeezing…

Durham 157 for 3 (Collingwood 88*) beat Yorkshire 156 for 7 (Willey 40, McCarthy 3-33, Coughlin 3-34) by seven wickets Paul Collingwood’s T20 season goes from strength to strength © Getty Images Yorkshire’s hopes of a quarter-final place in the NatWest T20 Blast suffered another setback when they failed to complete the double over north group stragglers Durham at Chester-le-Street. After the previous night’s defeat by Derbyshire, Yorkshire made a…

Ottis Gibson (right), with Stuart Broad, is in his second stint as England’s bowling coach © Getty Images The ECB say they have yet to receive an approach from Cricket South Africa regarding the services of the England bowling coach, Ottis Gibson, who has been linked to the South African head coach’s position which will be filled as early as next week. Current coach Russell Domingo, who has reapplied for…

Vernon Philander has battled injury and illness during the England tour © Getty Images Less than a week ago, Vernon Philander was almost a hero. He’d come off his sick bed to defy a viral infection and did his best to stave off a South Africa defeat. He couldn’t, but he tried. Today, Philander was ruled out of the fourth Test with a back injury and his former captain Graeme…

“We have to play more first-class cricket and then we can find more players who can dominate the game” © Associated Press Dimuth Karunaratne has become the latest player to advocate for a stronger first-class competition in Sri Lanka, suggesting that India’s comparatively sturdy domestic infrastructure has seen them thrive in Test cricket. The number of players – both former and present – who have called for drastic change in…