News He replaces Shaheen Shah Afridi who is unavailable due to international duty Adam Milne has signed as an overseas player at Birmingham Phoenix Milne, the New Zealand fast bowler, is currently playing for Kent in the T20 Blast. He replaces Shaheen Shah Afridi at Birmingham. Afridi is unavailable due to international duty. With experience in international and franchise cricket – he’s played in the IPL and BBL – Milne…
News Hasan Ali, left out of last year’s list, rejoins it in the highest-earning Category A Hasan Ali and Pakistan captain Babar Azam are among the four players in the highest-earning Category A Senior players Mohammad Abbas, Asad Shafiq and Imad Wasim, and youngsters Haider Ali and Naseem Shah are among the players missing from the Pakistan men’s contracts list for 2021-22. Fast bowler Hasan Ali, meanwhile, has undergone…
News Storm Elsa is making its way north west through various parts of the Caribbean Australia’s training has been cancelled on Friday with a storm due to hit the island (archive picture) Australia’s preparations for the T20 series against West Indies are facing disruption with St Lucia bracing for the impact of a tropical storm over the next 48 hours. The island will go into a lockdown early on…
News Ben Sawyer has joined the national set-up as full-time pace-bowling coach Matthew Mott, head coach of the Australia women’s team, has signed a two-year contract extension which means he will remain in charge until after the defence of the T20 World Cup title in 2023. The next two years includes a host of major series and global events for Australia beginning with the visit of India in September before…
Somerset 165 for 2 (Conway 81*) beat Gloucestershire 161 for 7 (Howell 52, Gregory 5-24) by eight wickets Gloucestershire’s 161 for 7 represented a workable total on a nibbly pitch in the West Country derby at Bristol, but in Devon Conway they came up against a batter who relishes the chance to put in a serious shift. Conway’s unbeaten 81 from 65 balls would not make much of a gaudy…
Report Notts consolidate top spot despite Moores, Clarke and Budinger’s absences Nottinghamshire 156 for 4 (Patel 63*) beats Leicestershire 154 (Harrison 3-20, Fletcher 3-31) by six wickets A half-century from Samit Patel saw North Group leaders Nottinghamshire Outlaws home by six wickets with 13 balls to spare as the Foxes slumped to an eighth defeat of the Vitality Blast season. Patel hit six fours and three sixes in his unbeaten…
Report Rob Jones hits 49 not out before Hartley and Saqib Mahmood star in gritty defence Lancashire 159 for 6 (Jones 49*) beat Worcestershire 125 (Hartley 4-16, Mahmood 4-25) by 24 runs Career-bests for Rob Jones and Tom Hartley boosted Lancashire’s Vitality Blast quarter-final hopes with a battling 34-run win over Worcestershire at Emirates Old Trafford. The Lightning’s fourth win in 10 North Group games moved them above the Rapids…
Report Opener continues good form with 59 before legspinner claims 3 for 13 Middlesex 166 for 7 (Eskinazi 59) beat Sussex 103 for 9 (Sowter 3-13, Cullen 3-21) by 63 runs Nathan Sowter produced his best Vitality Blast figures of the season as Middlesex’s bowlers staged an impressive fightback to see off Sussex Sharks by 63 runs. The legspinner finished with 3 for 13, while teenage seamer Blake Cullen returned…
Report England batter hits second fifty in four Blast innings after Glamorgan slump to 104 all out Essex 108 for 2 (Lawrence 55*) beat Glamorgan 104 by eight wickets Dan Lawrence produced his second Vitality Blast fifty of the season to set up Essex Eagles’ painless eight-wicket victory over a depleted Glamorgan. Essex were only chasing 105 after an all-round frugal bowling and fielding display stunted the visitors, who had…
Report South Africa are chasing their first T20I series win in over two years South Africa opt to bowl v West Indies Temba Bavuma won his first T20I toss and decided to put West Indies in to bat for the first time in this series. A win for South Africa here will give them a series win in the shortest format for the first time in two years. Since beating…