Month: September 2017

3:00 AM ET Press Association Northants 202 (Procter 82, Raine 5-54) and 197 for 4 (Procter 94) beat Leicestershire 128 (Sanderson 5-39, Gleeson 5-49) and 270 (Cosgrove 80, Kerrigan 4-62) Northamptonshire’s ninth victory of the season, completed with some ease in benign batting conditions at Grace Road, had a bitter-sweet element for the men from Wantage Road. Events at Hove, where Nottinghamshire needed only to draw with Sussex to confirm…

3:00 AM ET South Africa 298 for 1 (Elgar 128*, Markram 97, Amla 68*) v Bangladesh Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details Aiden Markram used his strong bat-swing to good effect against Bangladesh Gallo Images/Getty Images Dean Elgar‘s hundred headlined the first day of the Potchefstroom, even as Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim and South Africa opener Aiden Markram may be left pondering their respective choices. South Africa finished the day at 298…

11:26 AM ET Umar Farooq Shaheen Afridi got into the record books yesterday with figures of 8 for 39 in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, the best ever by a Pakistani on first-class debut. So young is he, he was born after the turn of the millennium – April 2000 – and he was just four years old when his brother Riaz Afridi played his solitary Test match for Pakistan. Here’s a…

3:00 AM ET India Red 483 (Shaw 154, Karthik 111, Bhatt 4-154, Wakhare 3-95) and 208 (Indrajith 59, Wakhare 4-66, Bhatt 4-77) beat India Blue 299 (Abhimanyu 127, Unadkat 83, Washington 5-94, Gohil 5-121) and 229 (Bhatt 51, Washington 6-87, Gohil 3-102) by 163 runs At 17 years and 199 days, Washington Sundar had become the IPL’s third-youngest debutant BCCI Washington Sundar capped off a memorable match with career-best figures of…

Play 00:47 Stokes remains as England’s vice-captain … for now Ben Stokes and Alex Hales will not be considered for selection for England international matches until further notice, after video footage emerges that allegedly shows Stokes throwing punches in a fight outside a nightclub in Bristol. An ECB statement read: “each remains on full pay pending further ECB investigation and the on-going Police investigation into an incident in Bristol in…

3:00 AM ET Tea Sri Lanka 143 for 3 (Karunaratne 81*, Chandimal 32*, Shah 2-38) v PakistanLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Dimuth Karunaratne flicks behind square Tom Dulat/Stringer It was laboursome work, and pre-lunch indiscretions have still not been atoned for, but in batting out the second session without major worry, senior batsmen Dimuth Karunaratne and Dinesh Chandimal have begun to fit Sri Lanka’s innings with a backbone. At tea, they…

3:00 AM ET Lunch South Africa 99 for 0 (Elgar 56*, Markram 43*) v BangladeshLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Aiden Markram used his strong bat-swing to good effect against Bangladesh Gallo Images/Getty Images Dean Elgar scored his ninth Test fifty and South Africa reached 99 for 0 at lunch in a smooth first session at Senwes Park, as Bangladesh’s bowling attack struggled to make inroads. Elgar was unbeaten on 56 off…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Somerset 236 (Byrom 56, Patel 7-81) and 250 for 9 dec (Hildreth 109, Patel 5-92) beat Middlesex 142 (Leach 4-54, C Overton 3-7) and 113 (Leach 5-57, van der Merwe 4-22) Jack Leach went past 50 Specsavers County Championship wickets for the season as Somerset achieved First Division survival with a comprehensive 231-run win over Middlesex at Taunton. The result left the visitors anxiously…

Agarkar: India should look to play six bowlers (1:25) With the series won, India could try and experiment in the remaining ODIs while Australia might look to rest few bowlers as well (1:25) 3:00 AM ET 50 overs Australia 334 for 5 (Warner 124, Finch 94, Handscomb 43, Umesh 4-71) v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details It is tough to imagine an Australian side of the old 3-0 down in…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 268 and 179 for 3 (Livingstone 69*) beat Surrey 201 for 8 dec and 242 (Stoneman 98, Livingstone 6-52, Parry 4-59) by seven wickets Lancashire knocked off the final 44 runs required without losing another wicket as they beat Surrey by seven wickets at Old Trafford to clinch second place in Division One of the Specsavers County Championship. Chasing their victory target of…