Month: April 2021

Gloucestershire’s chief executive Will Brown has admitted his frustrations about the fact Bristol will not host any matches – men’s or women’s – in the inaugural season of the Hundred, and expressed a strong desire to bring the tournament to the South West of England in future seasons. Fixtures in the competition were initially planned to be played around the country, with men’s games staged at the eight major Test…

Midway through last season’s Bob Willis Trophy campaign, Jamie Overton took the agonising decision to call time on his career at Somerset, and seek out pastures new at The Kia Oval, where he hopes to find the freedom to break out of the constraints that he had found himself in at Taunton, and fulfil his ultimate goal of breaking into the England team. But no-one gets to break lifelong ties…

Big picture Christmas in July? No, it’s cricket in April, which is still somewhat of a rarity for South Africa as the country approaches autumn. Three years ago, a Test series against Australia finished on April 3, but we have to go back more than a decade for anything that started in this month. South Africa hosted Australia for five ODIs between April 3 and 17 in 2009. The current…

This time last year, England’s women’s cricketers were making the best of a bad situation – working through training programmes in makeshift home gyms and backyard nets, enjoying the prospect of doing something “normal” at the weekends, like going for country walks. But the novelty quickly wore off and the situation turned increasingly bleak. What was meant to be the best year, building on a surge in energy produced by…

Ollie Pope unfurls a cover drive © BCCI Ollie Pope believes that India paid England a back-handed compliment in preparing a trio of spin-friendly wickets for the final three matches of this winter’s Test tour, after revealing how Virat Kohli warned him midway through England’s first-Test victory in Chennai that life for the batsmen was about to get much tougher. After winning the toss and batting in the series opener…