Month: June 2021

Report Three debutants for Sri Lanka, whose XI combined have fewer ODI caps than Eoin Morgan England have won the toss and chosen to bowl at Chester-le-Street, against a substantially depleted Sri Lanka side featuring three debutants. The suspension of the three cricketers who breached the bio-bubble on Sunday night, plus injuries to Avishka Fernando and Dhananjaya de Silva, and a fever to Oshada Fernando have left Sri Lanka with…

News Tammy Beaumont consolidates top spot after hitting run-a-ball 87 not out Mithali Raj has returned to the top five among women batters in ODIs after scoring 72 in her side’s eight-wicket loss to England in the first ODI in Bristol on Sunday. Raj, who gained three places on the table, got into the top five for the first time since October 2019, after adding 56 with Punam Raut and…

Report Conway and Gregory co-star in crushing ten-wicket victory at Canterbury Somerset 169 for 0 (Banton 107*, Conway 51*) beat Kent 168 for 8 (Gregory 4-27) by ten wickets There have not been many nights as extreme like this in the history of the Blast. A thick mist hung over Canterbury for much of the evening, so sinister that one half expected Sherlock Holmes to come springing out of the…

Report First home fixture of the Vitality Blast is washed out without a ball being bowled Bleak scenes at the Ageas Bowl as Hampshire’s match with Middlesex is washed out   Hampshire versus Middlesex – match abandoned Hampshire Hawks’ hopes of a happy homecoming was ruined by rain after Monday’s Vitality Blast clash with Middlesex was washed out without a ball being bowled at the Ageas Bowl. A torrential downpour…

News Club will be permitted 19,000 spectators for match in July in extension of government pilot The third ODI between England and Pakistan at Edgbaston next month will be permitted an 80 percent capacity crowd, in the latest steps of a government pilot scheme geared towards the return of full stadiums in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. The match, a day-night contest on July 13, is set to be…

Preview Banishment of three players leaves tourists in greater disarray after England dominated T20Is Big picture When the cry went up in the wake of an abject T20I series: “Something must be done about Sri Lanka’s batting”, this probably wasn’t the solution that anyone had envisaged. An evening spent milling about by a bench in Durham’s Market Square for Kusal Mendis, Niroshan Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka has left the squad…