Month: April 2022

Apr 31: Delhi Capitals v Lucknow Super Giants, 45th Match, Wankhede Stadium Safe XI: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, David Warner (capt), Deepak Hooda, Prithvi Shaw, Krunal Pandya, Avesh Khan (vice-capt), Kuldeep Yadav, Chetan Sakariya, Mohsin Khan Captain: David WarnerEven after missing a couple of games this season, he is still the leading run-scorer for Capitals this season with 261 runs in six outings at an average of…

Middlesex 370 (Stoneman 108, Simpson 71, Hollman 45, Mike 4-15) and 52 for 0 (Stoneman 30*, Robson 22*) beat Leicestershire 149 (Helm 3-23, Shaheen 3-54) and 272 (Mike 99*, Mulder 58, Roland-Jones 3-67, Shaheen 3-93) by 10 wickets Ben Mike was left stranded on 99 as his thrilling counter-attacking innings failed to save Leicestershire from defeat in three days at the hands of Middlesex at Lord’s. Nottinghamshire-born Mike followed his…

Gujarat Titans 174 for 4 (Tewatia 43*, Miller 39*, Shahbaz 2-26, Hasaranga 2-28) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 170 for 6 (Kohli 58, Patidar 52, Sangwan 2-19) by six wickets Not for the first time this season, Rahul Tewatia and David Miller dragged Gujarat Titans out of trouble, giving the table-toppers their eighth win in nine games in the process – it’s the best-ever start by any team in an IPL…

Big picture A mix of youth and experience has taken Sunrisers Hyderabad forward, as they now have five wins from eight matches, after early jitters this season. Up against a struggling Chennai Super Kings in the southern derby at MCA Stadium on Sunday, Sunrisers begin favourites as they look to remain in the top four. In Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, Marco Jansen, and T Natarajan, Sunrisers possess one of the…

MS Dhoni will take over as Chennai Super Kings captain from Ravindra Jadeja, after just eight games in charge for the latter. A statement from CSK said Jadeja wanted to step aside to “focus more on his game”. Dhoni, who had captained Super Kings for 15 seasons, handed over to Jadeja at the start of the 2022 season. Super Kings, the defending champions, have since won two games in eight,…

Big picture Six games to go out of 14 may sound like a lot, but not when you are placed sixth in a mid-table logjam, with five teams above jostling to confirm a top-four finish, and two others below you breathing down your neck. Delhi Capitals’ rollercoaster lose-one-win-one ride has been on for six games now, and they will be looking for some consistency at this stage. Hit by Covid-19…

Yorkshire 326 for 5 (Malan 152, Brook 131*) lead Kent 291 (Bell-Drummond 109, Cox 68, Robinson 58, Rauf 5-65) by 35 runs England Test hopefuls Dawid Malan and Harry Brook contributed superb centuries to a Yorkshire revival sparked by Pakistan quick Haris Rauf on day two against Kent at Headingley. Yorkshire’s hopes of winning a second LV= Insurance County Championship game in three to start 2022 are now high having…

Warwickshire197 for 9 (Hain 54) trail Somerset 458 (Renshaw 129, Abell 70, Banton 57, Lammonby 56, Hannon-Dalby 5-89) by 261 runs No county’s home is woven more lovingly into its immediate environment than the County Ground. Even those of us who already knew this so well are surprised by the intimacy of the place and the gentle intensity with which the game is followed here. The Wickets remains the best…

Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Jake Libby, 5.1 ov), 2-49 (Ed Pollock, 9.1 ov), 3-56 (Azhar Ali, 11.4 ov), 4-100 (Brett D’Oliveira, 21.1 ov), 5-110 (Ed Barnard, 25.3 ov), 6-114 (Ben Cox, 27.3 ov), 7-129 (Jack Haynes, 31.2 ov), 8-136 (Josh Baker, 33.6 ov), 9-138 (Charlie Morris, 35.6 ov), 10-159 (Dillon Pennington, 40.6 ov) Source: ESPN Crickinfo

The inaugural Pakistan Junior League will be played from October 1 to 15, featuring six teams and 19 games, at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. It is also understood that, after the PCB invited corporate entities to be a part of the tournament, there were as many as 24 companies that came forward with a desire to be involved in different capacities. And at least three of the six existing PSL franchises…