5:22 AM ET George Dobell England could soon require a new batting coach after Mark Ramprakash emerged as a leading candidate for the head coach role at Middlesex. Ramprakash, who started his career with the club and had a brief spell as batting coach before taking the England role in late 2014, is understood to be on a shortlist of four or five names. Richard Johnson, the Middlesex bowling coach,…
Coach Cathryn Fitzpatrick, captain Meg Lanning and ICC women’s committee member Belinda Clark pose with the World T20 trophy 5:08 AM ET Australian cricket’s custodians are expectant that a fresh commitment to major strategic funding for the game’s lower levels will be matched – if not bettered – by local, state and federal governments to address a host of infrastructure problems unearthed by a Cricket Australia audit of facilities last…
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Oshane Thomas was the bowling star for Jamaica Tallawahs © Randy Brooks – CPL T20 / Getty Jamaica Tallawahs exacted revenge for their bungled chase in Florida exactly one week earlier, with a five-wicket win over Barbados Tridents thanks to a sterling bowling effort spearheaded by Oshane Thomas. They are now the sole team at the top of the points table. Thomas’ yorkers wreaked havoc on Tridents in the Powerplay…
3:00 AM ET Matt Roller Sussex 120 for 6 trail Middlesex 169 (Holden 50*, Jordan 3-26, Archer 3-34) by 49 runsScorecard Less than three years have passed since the domestic schedule was changed to avoid counties constantly switching between formats, but if this Sussex bowling effort was anything to go by then nothing could be easier than transitioning between T20 and a promotion charge. After a clinical quarter-final win at…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Warwickshire 116 for 3 trail Glamorgan 203 (Meschede 53*, Stone 4-28) by 87 runsScorecard Warwickshire, the Division Two leaders, had the better of the opening day against Glamorgan, the bottom club, on the opening day at Colwyn Bay. They closed on 116 for 3, 87 runs adrift, with Ian Bell undefeated on 43. Their accurate attack dismissed the home team in 49.4 overs, with only…
3:00 AM ET Somerset 374 for 8 (Azhar 89, Hildreth 81, Davies 80, Gregory 65, Brooks 4-103) v YorkshireScorecard According to psychologists there are four states of competence and as Lewis Gregory and Steven Davies struck the ball to all parts on a sunlit evening, and Somerset helter-skeltered to 374 for 8 by the close, there was little doubt among the Headingley cognoscenti which category they were minded to put…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Northamptonshire 189 for 6 (Wakely 60, Salisbury 3-38) lead Durham 129 (Procter 5-33) by 60 runsScorecard Northamptonshire edged day one of their Specsavers County Championship contest against Durham, taking a 60-run lead into day two at the Riverside. Luke Procter starred with the ball for the visitors, claiming figures of 5 for 33 to put his side in command. Ben Sanderson and Brett Hutton…
3:00 AM ET Jon Culley Kent 365 for 6 (Denly 106, Crawley 96, Kuhn 51) v DerbyshireScorecard The stat of the day here explains quite a lot about why Kent entered the final third of the Championship season with the same win-loss-draw record as Warwickshire, the leaders, but with 15 fewer points in third place. The close-of-play score already represents their second highest first-innings total of the year, only the…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 11 for 1 trail Gloucestershire 202 (Bracey 76, Roderick 41, Abbas 5-30) by 191 runsScorecard Mohammad Abbas claimed five wickets as Leicestershire bowled out Gloucestershire for 202 on the opening day of the Specsavers County Championship match at Bristol. Abbas took his wicket tally to 35 in only his seventh Championship game with 5 for 30 from 20.3 overs on a slow pitch….