Report Visitors make light work of final day in Cardiff as Zafar claims 6-43 from 18 devastating overs Gloucestershire 419 (Dent 75, Price 71, van Buuren 65) and 15 for 0 (Dent 11*, Hammond 4*) beat Glamorgan 309 (Byrom 78, Lloyd 73, Rutherford 62) and 124 (Gohar 6-43) by 10 wickets It took Gloucestershire a mere 78 minutes to polish off Glamorgan on the fourth and final day of their…
News Aiden Markram, Mustafizur Rahman and Tom Latham also move up rankings Quinton de Kock, the South Africa wicketkeeper-batter, has jumped to a career-high eighth in the ICC’s Men’s T20I Player Rankings, following a productive series against Sri Lanka. de Kock, with 153 runs, topped the run-charts in the three-match series which South Africa won 3-0. He capped it off with an unbeaten 46-ball 59 in the third T20I, helping…
News The exercise will be a rehearsal for both the local governments in the UAE and the BCCI for the T20 World Cup Crowds are likely to be allowed at the IPL for the first time since the 2019 edition. ESPNcricinfo understands IPL chief operating officer Hemang Amin relayed that information to the franchises on Tuesday, saying fans will be “back” for the second half of the IPL in “reduced…
News An artificial-intelligence-based stats query tool that can answer questions put to it in regular English Remember the stats scrapbook? The question is a giveaway to my vintage. How many of you will know how it was to keep track of cricket before ESPNcricinfo came along? I kept my own database: pages and pages of averages and records clipped from magazines and newspapers and pasted into large notebooks. Because everything…
News The pink ball and an unknown venue will add to the challenging elements for the day-night Test against India Alyssa Healy is looking towards Rohit Sharma for a formula to find cross-format success opening the batting as she prepares for the multi-format series against India that will include a pink-ball Test. Healy, who has played four previous Tests, admitted it will be a challenge to prepare for the format…
Report Dwayne Bravo’s decision to bowl was justified by a superb collective bowling effort St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 181 for 3 (Lewis 77*, Gayle 42) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 178 for 9 (Hetmyer 45*, Jaggesar 2-19, Fawad 2-22) by seven wickets Coming off an unbeaten century in his last innings, Evin Lewis continued his sizzling hot form by scorching the Guyana Amazon Warriors bowling unit during his 77* off…
Report Mullaney dubs Ageas Bowl pitch “unacceptable” as Vince says Championship “is in our hands” Hampshire 226 (Gubbins 54) and 178 (Vince 52, Patterson-White 5-41) beat Nottinghamshire 155 (Slater 55, Patterson-White 53, Barker 7-46) and 127 (Dawson 5-45) by 122 runs Nine wickets in the final session meant Hampshire beat Nottinghamshire to leapfrog them at the top of the County Championship table and put them in pole position to win…
Report Defending champs Knight Riders crumble late in tall chase as Wiese claims second five-for of CPL 2021 St Lucia Kings 205 for 4 (Deyal 78, David 38*, Wiese 34*) beat Trinbago Knight Riders 184 (Narine 30, Ramdin 29, Pollard 26, Wiese 5-39) by 21 runs St Lucia Kings booked their place in the CPL final, knocking out defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders in a pulsating contest by 21 runs….
Report Zafar Gohar’s 3 for 7 then adds to hosts’ woes in Cardiff Glamorgan 309 and 57 for 6 (Zafar 3-7) trail Gloucestershire 419 (Dent 75, Price 71, van Buuren 65) by 53 runs Gloucestershire went through the 400 barrier for the first time this season to put hosts Glamorgan under severe pressure as they established a first-innings lead of 110 runs on day three of their LV= Insurance County…
Opener Finn Allen was among the few batting positives for New Zealand in the recently concluded low-scoring T20I series in Bangladesh. While he missed the first two matches to complete his recovery from covid-19, he returned to make scores of 15, 12 and 41 in spin-friendly Dhaka surfaces. New Zealand’s stand-in coach Glenn Pocknall, who has overseen Allen’s progress at Wellington Firebirds, believes the 22-year old batter has benefited from…