Henry Nicholls will lead in both four-day and one-day formats © Getty Images New Zealand A, led by Henry Nicholls, will field a strong A team in India, in the two four-day games and five one-dayers to be played against India A in late September and early October. Of the 16 players picked for the tour, 13 have played international cricket. Nicholls aside, the 15 for the four-day games includes…
The victorious Indian team with the trophy © Associated Press India were so clinical in the cross-format trouncing of Sri Lanka, that Virat Kohli’s side has drawn comparisons with perhaps the most successful rugby team in the world: the All Blacks. Kohli and his team have largely been confident in public but have veered away from effusive self-praise, nor have they dwelt much on the paucity of Sri Lanka’s performance….
Guyana Amazon Warriors 169 for 5 (Ronchi 70, Mahmudullah 3-25) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 168 for 8 (Sangakkara 57*, Rashid 3-32) by five wickets In a rematch of the 2016 CPL final, Guyana Amazon Warriors exacted revenge behind Rashid Khan‘s hat-trick and Luke Ronchi‘s cold-blooded 70 off 33 balls to knock out the defending champion Jamaica Tallawahs at Brian Lara Stadium. Tallawahs were on the back foot throughout Amazon Warriors’ chase…
Play 01:22 Roland-Jones ready for ‘special feeling’ of Lord’s Test In an ideal world England would have a settled team by now. And, in an ideal world (for them, at least), they would have wrapped up this series and gone into the final Test resting key players and mumbling platitudes about the decline of Caribbean cricket. But it’s not that way at all. Instead they face an obviously encouraged West…
Yorkshire 317 for 7 (Leaning 85, Hodd 51) v Middlesex Jack Leaning produced an invaluable half-century © Getty Images Jack Leaning and Andrew Hodd posted important half-centuries either side of tea as Yorkshire had the better of day two of their Specsavers County Championship clash with Middlesex at Headingley. After day one was washed out, this was the first day’s play of a fixture between the teams who have shared…
Play 01:42 County Championship Round-up: Stubborn Hameed frustrates Essex Lancashire 222 for 8 (Hameed 85*; Porter 4-54) v Essex Haseeb Hameed on a Wednesday morning in September. Block, block, leave alone, block, block, block. Each shot or non-shot is played again to an imaginary ball and most are punctuated by a short walk towards square-leg, the bat on the young man’s shoulder. The cricketer as contemplative ploughboy. Block, leave alone,…
Play 03:24 ‘I’m glad to be here with him’ – the Hope brothers on playing together for West Indies Few would have predicted a decider at Lord’s after the thrashing at Edgbaston but West Indies captain Jason Holder believes the confidence born out of their performance at Headingley could lift his side to victory in a “momentous” match. Only two members of this West Indies squad – Kemar Roach and…
Rory Kleinveldt enjoyed success during the evening session © Getty Images Sussex 172 (Kleinveldt 5-50) and 34 for 1 (Robson 10*) trail Northamptonshire 426 (Duckett 193) by 220 runs They don’t do boring at the County Ground and day two was no different, as 16 wickets fell to rush this game along at such a rate that Northamptonshire, not for the first time this season, might have to find something…
Hampshire 129 for 7 (Bailey 51, Holland 34*, T Curran 3-21) trail Surrey 200 (Patel 81, Foakes 47, Dawson 4-22, Edwards 3-70) by 71 runs Liam Dawson finished with four wickets © Getty Images England U-19 batsman Ryan Patel rode his luck to make his highest professional score in testing circumstances at the Ageas Bowl and give Surrey the upper hand against Hampshire. Tom Curran and Jade Dernbach toppled Hampshire’s…
Durham 217 (Wood 72, Weighell 55, Claydon 5-54) and 57 for 2 lead Kent 206 (Northeast 110, Onions 6-62) by 68 runs Sam Northeast made a battling hundred but Durham claimed a slender lead © Getty Images Kent skipper Sam Northeast scored more than half his side’s runs before he was last out for 110 in the Specsavers County Championship match against Durham at Chester-le-Street. All out for 206, with…