Report Mullaney’s declaration challenged Vilas’s batsmen to score 444 in a little over four sessions Lancashire168 and 115 for 1 (Wells 57*, Balderson 45*) need 329 runs vs Nottinghamshire 272 and 339 for 8 dec (Moores 97, James 91, Bailey 3-84) The morning’s warm haze was replaced by the evening’s sharply cut shadows on the third day of this match at Trent Bridge and in similar fashion the precise shape…
Report Slow grind towards 296-run target makes for a day for the purists at Edgbaston Warwickshire 116 and 139 for 2 (Yates 70*, Sibley 47) require a further 157 runs to beat Hampshire 89 and 322 (Barker 75, Norwell 4-72) TS Eliot’s J Alfred Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons. At Edgbaston, Dom Sibley and Rob Yates preferred to measure theirs out in dot balls. Prufrock reflected upon…
Report Pair score maiden first-class tons for Derbyshire’s highest sixth-wicket partnership but hard work remains Derbyshire 318 for 8 (Guest 116, Dal 106) trail Leicestershire 528 by 215 runs A record-breaking stand between Brooke Guest and Anuj Dal rescued Derbyshire on the third day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match against Leicestershire at Derby. The pair scored maiden first-class centuries as they passed Derbyshire’s previous highest sixth-wicket stand of 212…
Report Seventh-wicket pair add 163 but follow-on mark remains distant as Durham close in Glamorgan 97 and 333 for 7 (Douthwaite 96, Salter 82*, Rutherford 71) trail Durham 503 for 8 dec by 273 runs Dan Douthwaite and Andrew Salter put on a stand of 163 for the seventh wicket for Glamorgan to defy Durham on day three of their LV= Insurance County Championship Division Two clash at Emirates Riverside….
Report Surrey’s last-wicket pair post career-best scores before Gay and Keogh keep hosts in the hunt Amar Virdi is among the young English spinners thriving in the Bob Willis Trophy Northamptonshire 171 and 106 for 2 (Keogh 46*, Gay 44*) need 214 runs vs Surrey 252 and 238 (Jacks 50, Virdi 47, Atkinson 41*, Kerrigan 4-36) Surrey’s Amar Virdi and Gus Atkinson made career-best scores in an enterprising last-wicket…
Report Middlesex post highest total in their history, Sussex without loss in reply but still 573 adrift Sussex 103 for 0 (Haines 73*, Orr 17*) trail Middlesex 676 for 5 dec (Robson 253, Stoneman 174, White 110*, Andersson 88) by 573 runs Sam Robson scored a career-best 253 and Robbie White his second successive century as Middlesex piled up the highest total in their history. White was unbeaten on 110…
News Anisa Mohammed to lead the team again in the absence of regular captain Stafanie Taylor Qiana Joseph, as a 16-year-old, gets her first West Indies cap from Ezra Moseley Qiana Joseph, the 20-year-old left-arm seamer, returned to West Indies Women’s ODI squad that will face South Africa in a five-match series starting September 7. Joseph had broken into the side as a teenage tearaway back in 2017. She…
News Bangladesh had been skittled for just 76 in the third T20I Bangladesh’s batting coach Ashwell Prince found the batters to be “too aggressive” when chasing New Zealand’s 129 target in the third T20I in Dhaka. He said that they could have chased down the total had they been a bit more circumspect, rather than going all guns blazing to get bowled out for 76 in 19.4 overs. “I think…
Ben Stokes is likely to miss the initial cut for the T20 World Cup © Getty Images Ben Stokes is set to be omitted from England’s initial 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup in October and November, and may yet miss the tournament entirely, after Chris Silverwood said that the selectors would “leave it late” to decide on his involvement. Stokes has not featured at any stage of the…
Report Stevens, Gilchrist, Stewart claim three wickets each as visitors lose by an innings and 56 runs Kent 393 (Leaning 97, Billings 72, Stevens 66, Pennington 4-80) beat Worcestershire 133 (Cox 41*, Gilchrist 5-38, Milnes 4-35) and 204 (Leach 49* Gilchrist 3-36, Stevens 3-49, Stewart 3-51) by an innings and 56 runs Kent have beaten Worcestershire by an innings and 56 runs on day three of their LV= Insurance County…