Derbyshire 368 (Guest 109, Madsen 70, Masood 60) and 170 for 2 (Madsen 58*, Masood 42, Guest 40*) lead Glamorgan 387 (Labuschagne 130, Lloyd 84, Lakmal 5-82) by 151 runs Derbyshire’s Shan Masood fell agonisingly short of a world record on the third day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match against Glamorgan at Derby. The Pakistan opener was out for 42, failing by three to beat the most first-class runs…
Durham 223 (Trevaskis 88) and 169 for 0 (Dickson 110*, Lees 50*) trail Sussex 538 (Pujara 202, Rizwan 79, Alsop 66, Haines 54, Clark 50, Trevaskis 5-128) lead ) by 146 runs An unbroken opening stand of 169 between Alex Lees and Sean Dickson gave Durham an excellent chance of saving their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Sussex at Hove after they had conceded a first-innings lead of 315….
Lancashire 240 (Bailey 59, Salt 55, Barker 5-67) and 9 for 0 need 342 runs to beat Hampshire 246 (Gubbins 101*, Fuller 55, Hasan 5-45) and 344 (Gubbins 130, Brown 72, Anderson 3-36) Nick Gubbins scored twin centuries in an LV= Insurance County Championship match for the first time in his career as Hampshire set Lancashire 351 to win at the Ageas Bowl. Left-handed batter Gubbins followed his innings-rescuing 101…
Kent 291 (Bell-Drummond 109, Cox 68, Robinson 58, Rauf 5-65) and 118 for 2 (Compton 67*, Leaning 31*) trail Yorkshire 571 (Brook 194, Malan 152, Bess 98) by 162 runs Harry Brook fell narrowly short of a maiden career double-century before lunch on day three as Yorkshire edged towards victory in their LV= Insurance County Championship clash with Kent at Headingley. Brook, Division One’s second-leading run-scorer behind unbeaten Kent opener…
Mumbai Indians 161 for 5 (Suryakumar 51, Varma 35, Ashwin 1-21) beat Rajasthan Royals 158 for 6 (Buttler 67, Meredith 2-24, Shokeen 2-47) by five wickets Nine games in, Mumbai Indians have their first win of IPL 2022, giving a perfect 35th birthday gift for the captain Rohit Sharma. That the win came against Rajasthan Royals, touted to go all the way on current form, should come as a massive…
Nottinghamshire 266 (Hameed 53, Duckett 50, Broad 45*) and 233 for 5 (Duckett 78, Clarke 61*) beat Worcestershire 159 (Paterson 8-52) and 339 (Barnard 163*, Cox 55, Fletcher 4-65, Broad 4-72) by five wickets Normal service has been resumed as Nottinghamshire, beaten in their first home match of the season by Glamorgan, made it six wins in seven at Trent Bridge with a five-wicket defeat of Worcestershire. The prospect of…
Somerset 458 (Renshaw 129, Abell 70, Banton 57, Lammonby 56, Hannon-Dalby 5-89) beat Warwickshire 209 (Hain 54, Davey 3-30) and 167 (Brooks 4-44) by an innings and 82 runs Jack Brooks played six first-class matches for Somerset last year and took 12 wickets at 41.58 apiece. They are not impressive statistics but some context is required. The former Northamptonshire and Yorkshire bowler was recovering from torn ligaments in his thumb…
Gloucestershire 443 for 2 (Dent 207*, Harris 124, Hammond 75*) trail Surrey 603 (Smith 234*, Clark 137, Pope 84, Curran 64) by 160 runs Rediscovering his best form when it was most needed, Chris Dent scored a superb double-hundred and batted all day to frustrate First Division leaders Surrey and usher Gloucestershire towards safety on day three of this LV= Insurance County Championship match in Bristol. Responding to Surrey’s imposing…
Essex193 (Snater 79*, Sanderson 4-24) and 149 for 3 (Critchley 44*, Walter 40*) trail Northamptonshire 390 (Procter 113, Berg 75, Young 63) by 48 runs Paul Walter and Matt Critchley staged a belligerent rearguard action to frustrate Northamptonshire’s hopes of claiming a morale-boosting victory at Chelmsford. The fourth-wicket pair came together at 58 for 3 shortly before tea and were still there at stumps having put on 91 valuable runs…
May 1: SRH vs CSK, 46th Match, Pune Safe XI: MS Dhoni, Robin Uthappa, Rahul Tripathi (capt), Aiden Markram, Shivam Dube, Abhishek Sharma (vice-capt), Washington Sundar, Dwayne Bravo, T Natarajan, Maheesh Theekshana, Umran Malik Captain: Rahul TripathiSunrisers’ No. 3 Tripathi loves batting against Super Kings: he has 232 runs at an average of 33.14 and a strike rate of 150.65 against them. He has been aggressive against pace bowling this…