Month: April 2022

Sunrisers Hyderabad 152 for 3 (Markram 41*, Pooran 35*, Chahar 2-28) beat Punjab Kings 151 (Livingstone 60, Malik 4-28, Bhuvneshwar 3-22) by seven wickets Sunrisers Hyderabad’s sensational seam attack handcuffed Punjab Kings’ big-hitting line-up, despite Liam Livingstone‘s 33-ball 60, to give them their fourth successive victory in IPL 2022. Sunrisers are now fourth on the table with eight points. Livingstone continued to roll out the boundaries, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T…

Rob Key, the former Kent and England batter who subsequently forged a successful career in broadcasting, has been appointed by the ECB as its new managing director of England men’s cricket. Key will take up the role immediately, stepping down from his TV work with Sky Sports. The 42-year-old, who retired from playing in 2016, will be responsible for the England men’s strategy and performance pathways, as well as a…

Nawaz had recently been Bangladesh’s Under-19 coach, and had overseen that side’s victory in the 2020 Under-19 World Cup. The term of his appointment is two years. Also appointed to Sri Lanka’s coaching staff is former seam bowler Chaminda Vaas, who has been bowling coach in several stints over the past 10 years. Piyal Wijetunge, for years the lead spin bowling coach in the country, has also been added to…

Kent260 (Compton 104*, Crawley 54, Parkinson 4-66) and 81 for 6 (Compton 20*, Parkinson 2-22) trail Lancashire 506 by 165 runs When this Championship season began nine days ago, Ben Compton had played ten first-class matches in his life and had scored two hundreds, both for the Mountaineers in Zimbabwe’s Logan Cup. He was 28 years old. He had been signed on a two-year contract by Kent, whose director of…

Gloucestershire 227 and 253 for 6 (Bracey 112*) lead Yorkshire 376 (Brook 101, Dale 4-72) by 104 runs Called into England’s squad as top-order cover for the series against New Zealand last June, he found himself keeping wicket and batting at No. 7 after Ben Foakes slipped in the dressing room at the Kia Oval and tore a hamstring. The malaise remained when he retreated back to county cricket, but…

Nottinghamshire 302 and 224 for 8 (Duckett 95, van der Gugten 4-51) lead Glamorgan 379 (Northeast 85, Lloyd 76, van der Gugten 62) by 147 runs Glamorgan will enter the final day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Nottinghamshire feeling that they are in a strong position to complete their first victory in a red-ball match at Trent Bridge since 1998. Building on a lead of 77 on…

Royal Challengers Bangalore 189 for 5 (Karthik 66*, Maxwell 55, Thakur 1-27) beat Delhi Capitals 173 for 7 (Warner 66, Pant 34, Hazlewood 3-28, Siraj 2-31) by 16 runs Glenn Maxwell‘s 34-ball 55 helped Royal Challengers overcome a poor start. Then, continuing his superlative form, Dinesh Karthik struck an unbeaten 34-ball 66* laced with five fours and as many sixes to propel his side to 189. That, in the end,…

Durham 428 & 239 for 2 (Jones 108, Dickson 84) lead Leicestershire 273 (Ackermann 81, Azad 66, Potts 6-58) by 394 runs Matty Potts claimed career-best figures to give Durham hope of forcing victory against Leicestershire in their LV= Insurance County Championship Division Two match at the Riverside. Potts delivered an outstanding spell with the old ball to remove Hassan Azad and allow the hosts to break into the Leicestershire…

Surrey 467 (Pope 127, Amla 73, Jacks 72, Patel 58, Barker 4-80) beat Hampshire 223 (Barker 57, Overton 5-54) and 227 (Weatherley 87, Vince 57, Clark 4-55) by an innings and 17 runs There are any number of vacancies to be filled at the top of English cricket right now – captain, coach, director of cricket, head of paperclips*. But with Jofra Archer, Mark Wood and Olly Stone all at…

Sussex 174 and 278 for 2 (Haines 164*, Pujara 57*) trail Derbyshire 505 for 8 dec by 53 runs Sussex skipper Tom Haines led from the front with a superb career-best century to frustrate Derbyshire on the third day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match at Derby. The 23-year-old batted through the day for an unbeaten 164 from 289 balls and with Indian Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara scoring 57 not…