Month: April 2021

Report Ryan Higgins leads way with four wickets as only James Hildreth offers resistance among Somerset batters Gloucestershire 309 (Bracey 118, Taylor 56, Dent 50) and 28 for 1 (Bracey 10*, Overton 1-20) need 125 runs vs Somerset 312 and 149 (Hildreth 64, Higgins 4-29) Gloucestershire’s seam attack put them in sight of a first County Championship win at Taunton since 1993 on the third day of the match with…

Report Batsman to the rescue with 129*, Ollie Robinson shows his class with four wickets for Sussex Glamorgan 285 and 258 for 5 (Carlson 129*, Robinson 4-59) lead Sussex 481 (van Zyl 113, Garton 97, Haines 87, Robinson 67*, Thomason 67) by 62 runs Kiran Carlson scored his second hundred of the match as Glamorgan brought themselves back into the contest against Sussex in the LV=Insurance County Championship. Sussex finished…

Haider Ali didn’t enjoy too much success in his new role at No. 5 during the South Africa tour © Getty Images While the top-order trio of Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Fakhar Zaman shone brightly during Pakistan’s 3-1 T20I series win in South Africa, the performances of the middle and lower order weren’t quite as convincing. The final match of the tour was a case in point: Pakistan slipped…

News However, the head coach cautions against knee-jerk reactions following the 1-3 T20I series defeat against Pakistan Head coach Mark Boucher has accepted “a massive amount of responsibility,” for South Africa losing eight out of their 11 series in his time in charge so far but believes the national men’s team is “on the right path.” Speaking after their 1-3 defeat to Pakistan in the recently concluded T20I series, their…

Virat Kohli drives against the spin as Dinesh Karthik watches © BCCI Big picture The Royal Challengers Bangalore and Virat Kohli are not in this position very often: top of the table, the only unbeaten side after two rounds of games, and with a chance to complete a hat-trick of wins in IPL 2021. But they would be wary of reaching grand conclusions just yet, because the last time they…

News “It has absolutely nothing to do with ego; just the simple demands of the moment and the team.” Sanju Samson came within a few meters of winning the Rajasthan Royals’ match against the Punjab Kings, after refusing a single off the penultimate ball   Rajasthan Royals’ captain Sanju Samson believes it will soon be a norm rather than an exception for well-set batters to deny singles in the death…

Preview Both teams are strong at the top but have a tendency of losing steam towards the end of their innings Nortje can now resume his partnership with Kagiso Rabada to provide the pace blast they had last year   Big picture In the blue corner, we have Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant and others. In the red, there are KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Nicholas Pooran and friends. The…