Sep 25, 2019 George Dobell in Taunton Essex 25 for 0 trail Somerset 203 (van der Merwe 60, Abell 45, Harmer 5-105, S Cook 4-26) by 178 runs Andy Hurry has insisted Somerset can still win their first County Championship title despite a wash-out on the third day of their match against Essex. Somerset need to defeat Essex if they are to leapfrog them to the title on the final…
Sarfaraz Ahmed leaves after a press conference © AFP Has Pakistan’s ODI team progressed since the 2017 Champions trophy? Ten months before Pakistan won the Champions Trophy in 2017, the death of Pakistan’s limited-overs cricket had been pronounced, and who cared what they did with the ashes? Pakistan had spent the summer prancing about England, getting pummelled ODI after another by a team that had just a year earlier failed…
12:33 PM ET Even as the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) made history by electing a woman president, a first for state associations, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) has ruled that the TNCA’s constitution does not comply with the one the BCCI registered last August. Without a certificate of compliance from the CoA, no state association can send a representative to the BCCI elections, which are scheduled for October 23….
Leus du Plooy struck an unbeaten century © Getty Images Derbyshire 304 for 7 (du Plooy 100*, Hosein 57, Bamber 5-93) drew with Middlesex 260 (Robson 93, Malan 72) Leus du Plooy became the first Derbyshire player to hit first-class centuries at home and away against Middlesex as their County Championship clash at Lord’s ended in a draw. The 24-year-old, who hit his maiden Championship ton when the sides drew…
Sep 25, 2019 ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 155 (Gleeson 6-43) and 40 for 0 (Horton 30*) lead Lancashire 170 (Croft 44, Mike 3-41) by 25 runs Leicestershire’s bowlers needed just 47.3 overs to bowl Lancashire out after play finally got underway on the third day of the Specsavers County Championship match at the Fischer County Ground. Overnight rain on an already sodden outfield – no play at all had been…
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3:00 AM ET Gloucestershire 220 for 7 (van Buuren 93, Charlesworth 77*) drew with Northamptonshire As non-Test match grounds with English coaches and only five seasons in the first division between them, Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire share much that is unfashionable about cricket. That makes success all the sweeter when it comes. And so, with dual promotion secured and rain lashing the County Ground, players mingled in the home dressing room…
8:10 AM ET Vishal Dikshit in Mumbai Ajinkya Rahane, India’s Test vice-captain, has said that he found it “hard” to see a batsman like Rohit Sharma sitting out of the two Tests in the West Indies last month. Rohit has been touted as an opening option for the upcoming Test matches at home against South Africa, and Rahane, who returned to form with a century and two half-centuries in the…
© BCB Bangladesh Cricket Board director Lokman Hossain Bhuiyan, also the director-in-charge at Mohammedan Sporting Club, has been arrested for “illegal possession of liquor” by the country’s anti-corruption unit in Dhaka. Lokman’s arrest by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) came three days after a raid in the club premises unearthed evidence of illegal gambling. “We found five bottles of foreign liquor kept at his home without a license. He was…
N Srinivasan (L) and Niranjan Shah (R) with then BCCI president Sharad Pawar in 2007 Sep 25, 2019 ESPNcricinfo staff N Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah, two members of the old guard who became ineligible to hold office in the BCCI following the board’s constitutional reforms, will continue to have close links to the administration of their home states with their children now assuming top positions in their respective associations. Rupa…