Month: April 2022

Derbyshire 437 for 4 (Masood 219, Madsen 94, McKiernan 63*) lead Leicestershire 213 (Evans 63, Conners 4-62) by 224 runs Pakistan international Shan Masood became the first player in Derbyshire history to post back-to-back double centuries as Leicestershire’s bowlers were put to the sword on day two of the LV= Insurance County Championship match at the Uptonsteel County Ground. The 32-year-old opener was out for 219, having hit 24 fours…

Rajasthan Royals 222 for 2 (Buttler 116, Padikkal 54, Samson 46*) beat Delhi Capitals 207 for 8 (Pant 44, Prasidh 3-22) by 15 runs The end was chaotic with Delhi Capitals threatening to call their players back and sending an assistant coach on to the field to get a call overturned, but the serenity of yet another Jos Buttler hundred trumped all else in the final equation. Buttler began looking…

Sussex 169 for 5 (Pujara 85*) trail Worcestershire 491 (D’Oliveira 169*) by 322 runs Worcestershire club captain Brett D’Oliveira continued his prolific start to the 2022 campaign with an unbeaten 169 on day two of the LV=Insurance County Championship match with Sussex at New Road. His predecessor as captain, Joe Leach, then picked up three wickets in seven balls late in the day to put Worcestershire in control as the…

Essex 168 (Westley 80, Briggs 4-31) and 0 for 1 trail Warwickshire 385 (Burgess 170, Lamb 71) lead by 217 runs Legend has it that Nottinghamshire used to shout down the pit when they needed a new fast bowler. Modern-day Warwickshire take a more genteel approach when they want a wicketkeeper, driving down to Sussex to find a gloveman in search of opportunity. But genteel was hardly the word as…

Yorkshire 296 (Brook 84, Malan 64, Thompson 51, Berg 5-58) and 85 for 1 (Lyth 41*, Karunaratne 36) lead Northamptonshire 204 (Gay 65, Thompson 4-54) by 177 runs Adam Lyth and Dimuth Karunaratne shared an opening partnership of 73 as Yorkshire seized control of their LV= Insurance County Championship game against Northamptonshire. The pair quickly built on their side’s first-innings advantage of 92 at Wantage Road, having bowled Northamptonshire out…

Surrey 204 for 5 (Foakes 63) trail Somerset 337 (Abell 150*, Hildreth 54, Topley 3-62, Clark 3-66) by 133 runs Ben Foakes tucked Josh Davey off his pads, jogging through for a single to take him from 39 to 40. Four-and-a-half thousand miles away, Jos Buttler leaped and punched the air to celebrate his third hundred of the season for Rajasthan Royals, his fourth in his last eight IPL innings….

Abid had been on conservative cardiac rehabilitation since December last year and was allowed to play a local T20 tournament in Faisalabad recently. He started with walking on treadmills and was gradually allowed to run at a certain pace in the field. He started hitting the nets last month at the High Performance Centre in Lahore and he was cleared to play competitive cricket by the PCB after undergoing several…

Hampshire 337 for 4 (Vince 111, Gubbins 69, Dawson 63*) lead Kent 305 (Barker 6-53) by 32 runs The breeziest of hundreds from James Vince helped grease the wheels for Hampshire on a chilly afternoon in Canterbury, the visitors pushing into a first-innings lead with alacrity after wrapping up Kent inside the first hour of day two. The Vince cover drive, so often a double-edged sword, was shown to be…

Glamorgan 122 (Roland-Jones 3-34, Shaheen 3-35) and 104 for 6 (Neser 22*, Northeast 21*, Roland-Jones 3-35) trail Middlesex 336 (Simpson 104*, Roland-Jones 65, Stoneman 53, Harris 4-68) by 110 runs Middlesex took a stranglehold on their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Glamorgan in Cardiff as the home side finished 104 for 6 in their second innings, still 110 runs behind. An undefeated John Simpson hundred and a fifty from…

Apr 23: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 36th Match, Brabourne Stadium Safe XI: Dinesh Karthik, Nicholas Pooran, Kane Williamson, Faf du Plessis, Rahul Tripathi (vice-capt), Glenn Maxwell (capt), Aiden Markram, Josh Hazlewood, Harshal Patel, T Natarajan, Umran Malik Captain: Glenn Maxwell Glenn Maxwell has been impressive this season, having scored 112 runs in four matches at a strike rate of 193.10 so far. Against Sunrisers Hyderabad last season, he…