Month: May 2021

News New Zealand allrounder available for nine group-stage games as replacement for Mitchell Marsh Middlesex have further strengthened their squad for this year’s Vitality Blast by bringing in New Zealand allrounder Daryl Mitchell. Having signed Paul Stirling for the start of the tournament, Mitchell will come in for the last nine group games. The pair were recruited after Middlesex lost out on the services of Mitchell Marsh, with the Australia…

News Meeting on June 1 also to debate on expansion of teams at World Cups The ICC Board will meet on June 1 to discuss India’s host status of the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup, now less than six months away. It is unlikely that a final call will be taken then on whether the tournament goes ahead in India, but members are expected to get into the details of…

News The series against Scotland will be Ireland’s first under Joyce, who was appointed coach nearly two years ago Ed Joyce has been joking this week about his unbeaten record as Ireland Women’s coach in ODI cricket. It might sound arrogant, but only without the crucial context: 23 months after he was appointed, they still haven’t played one under him. That wait is set to continue for a while yet,…

News Campaigners achieve aim of gender equality with commitment to T20 double-header From 2022, the women’s Varsity match is set to be played on the main Lord’s square, having previously been limited to the smaller Nursery Ground (top)   The women’s Varsity match looks certain to be played on the main square at Lord’s for the first time following pressure on Marylebone Cricket Club and the universities’ cricket clubs. While…

Warwickshire 159 for 7 (Bresnan 47*, Sibley 43, Siddle 4-36) vs Essex That long-awaited return to a county cricket ground proved to be slow, bleak and joyless. And that was just Dom Sibley‘s innings. But by the time a filthy squall of rain blew across Chelmsford at 4.30pm to coat the ground in an unseasonably wintery glow of floodlights (and drive away each and every one of the 100-odd diehards…

Report Timm van der Gugten claims 2 for 0 as Glamorgan make early inroads Sam Billings is the first player back from this year’s IPL to feature in the Championship   Kent 70 for 2 (Robinson 43, van der Gugten 2-0) vs Glamorgan Sam Billings always seems such an upstanding, action-man type of chap that when it was announced he had got out of India ahead of most of the…