Month: September 2021

Report Avoidance of innings defeat provides crumb of comfort for Taunton faithful George Balderson and Jack Brooks shake hands after Lancashire’s ten-wicket win   Lancashire 373 (Wells 103, Croft 71, Bailey 63, Bohannon 50; Brooks 4-77, Abell 3-63) and 32 for 0 beat Somerset 90 (Blatherwick 4-28, Bailey 3-9) and 314 (Lammonby 100, Azhar Ali 50; Wells 3-9) The statisticians from cricket’s black museum were out in good numbers at…

Report Visitors make one change, with Mulder getting a go in place of Nortje Toss: Sri Lanka chose to bat v South Africa Sri Lanka have won the toss and chosen to bat, in the third T20 at Khettarama. Although they had lost the last match batting first, this is an unsurprising decision, with Khettarama surfaces generally more difficult to chase on. South Africa, who won the first two games…

News Malinga retires as the leading wicket-taker in T20Is Sri Lanka’s most successful limited-overs fast bowler Lasith Malinga has announced his retirement from T20s, the last format he was active in, to close out an illustrious career. Malinga retires from the format with 390 wickets overall – behind only Dwayne Bravo, Imran Tahir and Sunil Narine – and 107 wickets in T20Is, the most by anyone at the time of…

News The series is set to begin five days after the T20 World Cup final, leaving little breathing room in case either side makes the knockouts Pakistan’s men’s team will travel to Bangladesh in November for their first bilateral series in the country since 2015. The tour will consist of three T20Is and two Tests, which are part of the 2021-23 World Test Championship cycle. The tour is scheduled right…

News “I am unapologetic and unrelenting in my belief that we need to play a braver style of play” “My job is to try and build something at KKR that is going to last far longer than I am going to last for the franchise”   Seven matches. Just two wins in those. And Kolkata Knight Riders are seventh on the table of eight in IPL 2021 as the second…

News Lee’s team-mate Ayabonga Khaka also gained a spot to move to No. 7 among the bowlers This is the second time this year that Lizelle Lee has topped the ODI batting charts   A stellar run of recent form has pushed South Africa batter Lizelle Lee to the top of the ODI batting rankings for the second time this year. With 762 ranking points, Lee is jointly atop the…