Nottinghamshire 188 for 4 (Mullaney 63*, Hameed 49, Snater 3-54) lead Essex 99 (Browne 53, Fletcher 6-24) by 89 runs If you had to nominate a player who exemplifies the beating heart of county cricket, Luke Fletcher would be high up the list. That heart has rarely pumped as merrily as it did against the champions, Essex, as he turned in the most successful shift of his career. It was…
Gloucestershire 19 for 1 trail Middlesex 210 (White 76*, Payne 5-31) by 191 runs This wasn’t exactly an advert for Championship cricket. More a case of Championship cricket for adverts (specifically of the erectile dysfunction variety, as it happens) as Sky Sports cobbled together a lo-fi means to fill an IPL-shaped void in their scheduling. The solution? The dispatching of their heavies – Athers, Nasser, Keysy and Wardy – to…
Warwickshire 271 for 7 (Yates 104, Burgess 65*) vs Worcestershire It’s been a long time since Warwickshire produced an opening batter with the potential to play Test cricket for England, but in Rob Yates they may just have done so. It’s probably unwise and almost certainly unfair to set such expectations for Yates. He’s just 21, after all, and has more than a year left at university. Indeed, with rain…
Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Sam Robson, 11.6 ov), 2-48 (Max Holden, 21.4 ov), 3-61 (Peter Handscomb, 30.4 ov), 4-78 (Nick Gubbins, 36.2 ov), 5-117 (John Simpson, 51.4 ov), 6-159 (Martin Andersson, 65.1 ov), 7-184 (James Harris, 72.5 ov), 8-195 (Ethan Bamber, 77.4 ov), 9-210 (Thilan Walallawita, 80.3 ov), 10-210 (Tim Murtagh, 80.5 ov) Source: ESPN Crickinfo
Report Lewis Gregory takes 4 for 26 as hosts are bundled out inside 41 overs shortly after lunch George Bartlett celebrates with his Somerset team-mates after running out Sam Northeast Somerset 142 for 5 (Abell 52*) lead Hampshire 79 (Gregory 4-26) by 63 runs A fighting half-century from skipper Tom Abell helped Somerset build a 63-run lead over Hampshire on an eventful opening day at the Ageas Bowl that…
Report Pair bowl Sussex out for 106 before Rob Keogh, Saif Zaib fifties spur Northamptonshire on further Northamptonshire 214 for 5 (Zaib 66*, Keogh 66, Robinson 4-31) lead Sussex 106 (Robinson 49*, Berg 5-18, Sanderson 5-28) by 108 runs Ben Sanderson and Gareth Berg sliced Sussex apart before Rob Keogh and Saif Zaib garnered half-centuries as Northamptonshire enjoyed a dominant day in the LV= Insurance County Championship. Veteran fast bowlers…
Report Duo share 195-run stand, but visitors claim five wickets in final session to leave match evenly poised Leicestershire 306 for 6 (Evans 112, Harris 101) vs Surrey Contrasting centuries from Sam Evans, his third in as many matches, and Marcus Harris saw Leicestershire build the foundations for a big first-innings score before Surrey fought back on an absorbing first day of the LV County Championship match at the UptonSteel…
Report David Lloyd half-century helps Glamorgan on rain-affected day at Lancashire Glamorgan 117 for 3 (Lloyd 78) vs Lancashire In the age of non-stop touring, a county season which very nearly fills a six-month window, and a T20 treadmill which just keeps on spinning, the best players in the world face one another with increasing regularity. Jofra Archer’s dominance of David Warner has moved from an Ashes series into a…
News In all, eighteen women players have been offered deals, an increase of three from the last season Qiana Joseph and the uncapped Kaysia Schultz have received their first West Indies central contracts, for the 2021-22 season. Shawnisha Hector, who has played just a solitary international for West Indies – an ODI against India in 2019 – also got a central contract as West Indies look to widen their talent…
रिपोर्ट सिराज ने तीन विकेट लेकर रॉयल्स के शीर्ष क्रम को उखाड़ा रॉयल चैलेंजर्स बेंगलुरु 180 for 0 (पडिक्कल 101*, कोहली 72*) ने राजस्थान रॉयल्स 177 for 9 (दुबे 46, तेवतिया 40, सिराज 3-27, पटेल 3-47) को 10 विकेट से हराया देवदत्त पडिक्कल के लगाए गए शानदार शतक की बदौलत रॉयल चैलेंजर्स बेंगलुरु (आरसीबी) आईपीएल 2021 में लगातार चौथी जीत दर्ज करने में कामयाब रही, जहां उन्होंने राजस्थान रॉयल्स को…