3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Sussex 287 for 9 (Beer 75, Evans 68) beat Essex 283 for 7 (Westley 61, Lawrence 54) by one wicket Will Beer brilliantly shattered his best score for Sussex to hand his side a nervy one-wicket victory with one ball to spare in their Royal London One Day Cup match against Essex. Leg-spinner Beer arrived at the crease on 94 for 6 before he…
3:00 AM ET Paul Edwards Lancashire230 for 7 (Croft 99) beat Durham 229 (Lees 115, Maxwell 3-42) by three wickets It comes as something of a jolt to see it is nearly a decade since Lancashire last reached the knockout stage of this competition. Time was when their place at such junkets could be all but laid at the start of the season. Yet if they maintain their present form…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Glamorgan 331 for 7 (Cooke 161, Root 98) beat Gloucestershire 257 (Taylor 75, de Lange 3-41) by 74 runs Chris Cooke‘s career-best List A score of 161 guided Glamorgan to a 74-run Royal London One-Day Cup victory over Gloucestershire at Bristol. The 32-year-old South African smashed 12 fours and 8 sixes in an exhilarating 127-ball innings, sharing a fourth-wicket stand of 234 with Billy…
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Derbyshire 289 for 5 (Madsen 119*, Hughes 69) beat Warwickshire 288 for 7 (Thomson 68*, Mellor 58) by five wickets An unbeaten 119 from Wayne Madsen steered Derbyshire to a five-wicket victory over Warwickshire to keep them on course for the knock-out stages of the Royal London One-Day Cup. Warwickshire had to win to have any chance of emerging from the North Group and…
Stuart Meaker shies as Liam Dawson dives for his crease © ESPNcricinfo Ltd Hampshire 307 (Dawson 108, Markram 88) beat Surrey 254 (Stoneman 70, Dawson 2-39) by 53 runs Schoolkids! Hordes of them! Packing out the Harleyford Road side of the ground and creating a racket far removed from your average Tuesday morning in April. They were long gone, of course, by the time Hampshire had torpedoed Surrey’s last realistic…
12:46 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies and the Caribbean Premier League have agreed to move back the dates of the 2019 edition of the T20 tournament to make sure all the top West Indies players can take part in it as well as in the multi-format home series against India. The seventh edition of the tournament was earlier scheduled to be played from August 21 to September 27….
11:42 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hepburn, the former Worcestershire allrounder, has been jailed for five years at Hereford Crown Court after being found guilty of raping a sleeping women in his team-mate’s bed. Hepburn, 23, had been warned at the conclusion of his retrial earlier this month that a jail sentence was inevitable, after he had been found guilty on one count of oral rape, relating to an attack…
3:00 AM ET Toss Rajasthan Royals chose to bowl v Royal Challengers Bangalore Rajasthan Royals captain Steven Smith chose to field after winning the toss against Royal Challengers Bangalore. His opposite number Virat Kohli, who rued his luck at losing the tenth toss in the tournament, said that he would have preferred to chase given the dew factor. Royals dropped Ashton Turner and included Mahipal Lomror, the 19-year-old allrounder, who…
MS Dhoni reflects © BCCI Big picture Both teams are already through to the playoffs, but places in the top two are still up for grabs, and any slip-ups in the closing stages of the league phase could land either Delhi Capitals or Chennai Super Kings in the Eliminator. It’s not a situation either team wants to be in. Capitals have considerable momentum behind them, having won six of their…
10:05 AM ET Liam Brickhill South Africa’s anxious wait for an update on Dale Steyn‘s injured right shoulder continues, but the fast bowler has seen a specialist in Cape Town since his early return from the IPL. In two weeks, the Proteas will meet for a pre-World Cup camp, and the selectors have until May 23 to name a potential replacement – if Steyn is not fully fit by then….