Month: July 2018

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 165 for 4 (Klinger 58, Hammond 36) beat Middlesex 160 for 7 by six wicketsScorecard Michael Klinger‘s assured half-century saw Gloucestershire resume their T20 hoodoo over Middlesex with a comfortable six-wicket win at Uxbridge. Gloucestershire’s first defeat to Middlesex at Uxbridge last season came at the 12th attempt but thanks to Klinger’s 58 that result proved the exception. The 38-year-old Australian was content…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Worcestershire 136 for 4 (Guptill 65) beat Derbyshire 135 for 9 (Pennington 2-22) by six wicketsScorecard Martin Guptill marked his return to Derby by steering the Worcestershire Rapids to a third consecutive victory in the Vitality T20 Blast by six wickets as the Derbyshire Falcons suffered a second defeat in three days. The former Derbyshire opener adjusted to a slow pitch with a run…

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Birmingham 158 for 2 (Hose 51*, Bell 50, Pollock 39) beat Yorkshire 157 for 7 (Ballance 79, Hannon-Dalby 3-37) by eight wicketsScorecard Skilful spin bowling and explosive batting powered Birmingham Bears to an eight-wicket win over Yorkshire Vikings in the Vitality Blast North group at Edgbaston. Yorkshire totalled 157 for 7 thanks principally to Gary Ballance’s high-class 79 (49 balls, six fours, four sixes)….

3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 124 for 2 (Davies 64*) beat Northamptonshire 123 for 9 (Levi 40, Parkinson 2-14)Scorecard Lancashire Lightning’s spinners bowled well on a pitch being used for its third T20 game in a week to set up their side’s very comfortable eight-wicket defeat of Northants Steelbacks in the Vitality Blast North Group match at Emirates Old Trafford. Steelbacks now have three defeats in a row…

12:25 PM ET Liam Brickhill “Muscled” is a term that might be applied quite liberally to Australia’s approach to T20 batting. They huff and puff and heave and swing at the ball as if they mean to rip the leather clean off it. Slightly built and a shade under six feet tall, Fakhar Zaman doesn’t have the hardware to follow the same method. Pakistan’s free-wheeling opener’s game instead marries hand…

11:47 AM ET Andrew Fidel Fernando No matter what the pitch looks like, South Africa will play three frontline quicks in Sri Lanka. This is at least what coach Ottis Gibson said, four days out from the first Test in Galle. He probably knows already that Sri Lankan surfaces have recently been so dusty that the home team straps three specialist spinners to the plow, often fielding only one seamer…

10:44 AM ET Liam Brickhill in Harare Two formats, eleven games, three wins. Thus ends the first chapter in Australia’s new era after their defeat to Pakistan in the final of the T20 tri-series in Zimbabwe. But while they have lost more than they have won over the last month, they have gained in experience according to new coach Justin Langer, who also hinted that Aaron Finch could assume the…

3:00 AM ET South Africans 338 (Du Plessis 79, Amla 78, Bavuma 58, Hasaranga 3-72) drew with Sri Lanka Board XI 287 (Mathews 92, Shamsi 5-45) Hashim Amla sweeps during his half-century AFP Faf du Plessis, Hashim Amla and Temba Bavuma all made half-centuries on the second day of South Africa’s practice match in Colombo, with Dean Elgar also getting a decent batting workout, hitting 43 off 48 balls. As had…

7:37 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff South Africa captain Dane van Niekerk and fast-bowling allrounder Marizanne Kapp celebrated their wedding on Saturday, becoming the second set of current international team-mates to get married after New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite and Lea Tahuhu last year. Kapp made the news of their wedding public via an Instagram post and it is understood that the event was attended by most of their South Africa team-mates….

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