Essex 180 (A Cook 59, Overton 7-57) and 3 for 1 need 81 more runs to beat Somerset 109 and 154 (Davies 51, Snater 6-36) If a week is a long time in politics then a day is in county cricket. When Craig Overton walked off at lunch, he raised the ball with a proud smile to warm applause from the crowd after returning career-best figures of 7 for 57;…
Sussex 174 (Haines 41, Potts 3-43, Conners 3-47) trail Derbyshire 505 for 8 declared (Masood 239, Madsen 111, Tomson 52) by 331 runs Sussex are facing an uphill task to avoid defeat following a spectacular collapse on the second day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match at Derbyshire. After the home side racked up 505 for 8 declared, Sussex imploded, losing 6 for 63, to be bowled out in…
Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Ben Slater, 6.5 ov), 2-69 (Haseeb Hameed, 17.1 ov), 3-136 (Joe Clarke, 42.6 ov), 4-142 (Joey Evison, 44.5 ov), 5-258 (Steven Mullaney, 72.5 ov), 6-263 (Tom Moores, 73.5 ov), 7-264 (Liam Patterson-White, 74.4 ov), 8-270 (Ben Duckett, 75.3 ov), 9-283 (Brett Hutton, 82.4 ov), 10-302 (James Pattinson, 88.1 ov) Source: ESPN Crickinfo
Hampshire 152 for 7 (Brown 49) trail Surrey 467 (Pope 127, Jacks 72, Barker 4-80) by 315 runs Jordan Clark enjoyed more success against Hampshire to help put Surrey in a strong position after two days of their LV County Championship match at the Kia Oval. The 31-year-old seamer took career-best figures of 6 for 21 in their innings victory against Hampshire last year and he struck with his first…
Kent133 for 3 (Compton 60*, Crawley 54; Parkinson 3-39) trail Lancashire 506 (Croft 155, Vilas 124, Salt 97; Qadri 6-129) by 373 runs The sensible folk who suggest that we shouldn’t play first-class cricket beyond the margins of summer will have to reckon with the April we are enjoying. When Phil Salt eased Jackson Bird’s first ball of the morning to deep square-leg for a single, only the barely leafed…
Sunrisers Hyderabad 176 for 3 (Tripathi 71, Markram 68*, Russell 2-20) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 175 for 8 (Rana 54, Russell 49*, Natarajan 3-37) by seven wickets An enterprising 71 from Rahul Tripathi and an unbeaten 68 from Aiden Markram helped Sunrisers Hyderabad complete a hat-trick of wins in IPL 2022, this time beating Kolkata Knight Riders at the Brabourne Stadium, and join five more teams jostling for the second…
Leicestershire 159 for 2 (Azad 65*, Ackermann 58*) trail Durham 428 (Bedingham 191, Dickson 120, Raine 51*) by 269 runs Leicestershire dug in on day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship Division Two clash against Durham at the Riverside after the home team posted 428 in their first innings. David Bedingham‘s brilliant knock of 191 was the foundation of a strong first-innings total from the North-East outfit, while Ben…
Darren Gough was “surprised” by the level of criticism Joe Root faced in his final months as England’s Test captain and “can’t wait” to have him available to play for Yorkshire in the coming weeks. Gough, who became Yorkshire’s director of cricket in December after Martyn Moxon was sacked, was speaking during the club’s first County Championship fixture this season against Gloucestershire in Bristol. He expects Root to play “two…
After playing just two IPL matches in over two years, and almost going unsold in the mega auction this year, Umesh Yadav feels he doesn’t have anything to prove to anyone except himself, that he has “the ability, the capability, to keep improving myself”. He has so far, where he has been quick, moved the ball around, and picked up wickets, especially early on. Related Umesh Yadav: ‘The more you…
Who is Aman Khan?Aman Khan, 25, is a big-hitting batter who can also bowl useful medium pace. At the mega IPL auction earlier this year, Kolkata Knight Riders signed him for INR 20 lakh (USD 26,000 approx). He grew up in Mumbai and took up the game after watching his father play at the local level. He has played a lot of his age-group cricket alongside Shreyas Iyer, who happens…