Month: April 2018

3:00 AM ET George Dobell at Taunton Worcestershire 153 for 8 trail Somerset 202 (Renshaw 101*, Barnard 5-52) 49 runsScorecard Somewhere in Australia, Cameron Bancroft will be checking the scores and shaking his head ruefully. Matt Renshaw has already claimed (reclaimed, you might argue) Bancroft’s place in the Australia side. Now he is sleeping in his bed (Somerset had already arranged the accommodation), driving his car (ditto) and performing his…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Middlesex 45 for 3 trail Derbyshire 265 (Viljoen 60*, Harris 4-68) by 220 runsScorecard South African fast bowler Hardus Viljoen rescued Derbyshire with the bat on a keenly contested opening day of the Division Two match against Middlesex at Derby. Viljoen scored his first fifty for the county as the home side recovered from 167 for 7 to 265 and then reduced Middlesex to…

3:00 AM ET Nottinghamshire 53 for 4 (Brooks 3-11) trail Yorkshire 256 (Hodd 62, Fletcher 4-47) by 203 runsScorecard Cricket’s changing landscape was there for all to see at Headingley. Behind the arm at the rugby end of the ground, the clanking and hammering told of a new stand rapidly taking shape. And, as spectators soaked up the sunshine on an entertaining, helter-skelter day, conversation often turned to the ECB’s…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Sussex 254 for 7 (Wright 88, Brown 64) v LeicestershireScorecard Ben Raine took two wickets in two balls in the final session to wrest the initiative back for Leicestershire at the end of an absorbing first day of their Specsavers County Championship match against Sussex at the Fischer County Ground. Raine produced fine seaming deliveries to bowl first Luke Wright, who had looked set…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Durham 91 (Henry 5-28) and 13 for 1 trail Kent 169 (Kuhn 54) by 65 runsScorecard Aiden Markram endured a nightmare start to his Durham career as he collected a pair on day one of his side’s Specsavers County Championship Division Two clash against Kent, as 21 wickets fell at the Emirates Riverside. Markram and his team-mates were skittled out in one session in…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Warwickshire 113 for 3 (Hain 51*) trail Northamptonshire 147 (Sidebottom 6-35) by 34 runsScorecard Ryan Sidebottom took a career-best 6 for 35 as Warwickshire enjoyed a dominant first day at Wantage Road, bowling Northamptonshire out for just 147 before closing 113 for 3, trailing by 34. Sidebottom, playing in just his ninth first-class game, tore through the Northants lower order after lunch to take…

3:00 AM ET Big picture Four games into the season, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Daredevils occupy the bottom two spots on the IPL table. It’s not an unfamiliar position for either team. Both are coming off heavy defeats, and both have pressing issues to sort out if they are to make anything of this season. Royal Challengers Bangalore: lost to Mumbai Indians by 46 runs, lost to Rajasthan Royals…

3:00 AM ET Kolkata Knight Riders: defeated Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets, defeated Delhi Daredevils by 71 runs, lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad by five wickets, defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by four wickets Kings XI Punjab: defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 15 runs, defeated Chennai Super Kings by four runs, lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by four wickets, defeated Delhi Daredevils by six wickets Big picture Chris Gayle v Andre Russell. Gayle…

Agarkar: Royals missing the X-factor (4:31) Ajit Agarkar and James Faulkner pick their XIs for Super Kings v Royals (4:31) 3:00 AM ET Toss Chennai Super Kings chose to bowl v Rajasthan RoyalsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Ajinkya Rahane called correctly as Rajasthan Royals elected to bowl in Pune, Chennai Super Kings’ new home ground for the remainder of the season. The MCA Stadium, incidentally, has also played host to…