Month: April 2021

Report Dawson and Crane spark collapse as Gloucestershire bat again Gloucestershire 320 (Higgins 73, Bracey 65, Brathwaite 60) and 14 for 0 trail Hampshire 470 (Alsop 149, Holland 114, Dawson 65, Vince 52) by 136 runs Hampshire enforced the follow-on late on day three at the Ageas Bowl after a dramatic final-session collapse saw Gloucestershire dismissed for 320 with spin twins Liam Dawson and Mason Crane taking five wickets between…

Preview David Warner’s side will be eager to string some wins together after their hat-trick of loses to begin the tournament Smith and Dhawan had put on a vital half-century stand in Delhi Capitals’ win over Mumbai Indians on Tuesday   Big Picture This will be Chepauk’s final game in IPL 2021, and setting a competitive target here remains a challenge. The average first-innings score is 154 in the nine…

Report Nine-wicket win puts team back on course after Gloucestershire loss Somerset 318 (Abell 88, Davies 59) and 115 for 1 (Lammonby 70*) beat Leicestershire 233 and 199 (Overton 5-25) by nine wickets England all-rounder Craig Overton took five for 25 as Somerset bounced back from last week’s defeat to Gloucestershire to bank 22 points from a three-day, nine-wicket victory over Leicestershire in LV=Insurance County Championship Group Two. Overton, 10…

Abu Jayed was one of the Bangladesh seamers put through his paces on an unforgiving surface   The aggregate batting average on this Pallekele pitch can only be compared to the 1997 Test at the R Premadasa Stadium, in which Sri Lanka posted a world-record 952 for 6. After seeing his bowlers suffer for three days, Sachin Tendulkar called it unfit for Test cricket. Depending on how much more is…

News Joint letter signed by staff including Graeme Smith, as crisis looms for national body CSA has until Friday to resolve a crisis that threatens the international game in the country   Cricket South Africa’s staff have warned of more than 1,000 job losses if their organisation is derecognised by the country’s sports ministry, and have asked the Members’ Council and Inteirm Board to hold a “meeting of minds” to…

Preview After their first T20I win against Pakistan, the hosts now chase their first-ever bilateral series win in the format Big picture It was about time the chickens would come home to roost on Pakistan’s middle order, but the manner of that reckoning was so grave even those predicting it were taken aback. A first-ever T20I loss to Zimbabwe, and the fourth-lowest total defended against a Full Member saw Pakistan…

Report Bamber, Roland-Jones and Murtagh pick up seven wickets in little more than an hour Middlesex 268 (Robson 95, White 72, Topley 4-56) and 18 for 0 beat Surrey 154 (Murtagh 4-28) and 130 (Burns 54, Roland-Jones 4-29) by 10 wickets The re-opening of pub beer gardens in the last two weeks has caused a significant blow to Saturday-morning productivity levels for large swathes of London’s population, not least if…