Lancashire 37 for 1 trail Hampshire 246 (Gubbins 101*, Fuller 55, Hasan 5-45) by 209 runs Anderson, who was left out of England’s tour to the West Indies, has been given the green light to return to the Test side by new captain Ben Stokes and managing director Rob Key. At the Ageas Bowl, he produced a flawless new ball spell on his way to 3 for 24. Pakistan fast…
Somerset 351 for 4 (Renshaw 129, Abell 70, Lammonby 56) vs Warwickshire The current issue of Somerset Life contains a feature entitled “Twelve Reasons to Visit the Quantocks”. Fair enough but anyone sitting on the top deck of the Marcus Trescothick Pavilion this benign afternoon would have been able to name four dozen such justifications. This, after all, is the view some have been denied for three years. Last September,…
The bare stats will tell you Arshdeep Singh just has three wickets in eight games at IPL 2022. It won’t tell you how well he has bowled at the death. It won’t tell you how he’s gone from being a 130s kph bowler to a 140 kph bowler. It won’t tell you the kind of pressure he has built up front with the new ball with his late swing in….
Delhi Capitals 150 for 6 (Warner 42, Powell 33*) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 146 for 9 (Rana 57, Shreyas 42, Kuldeep 4-14, Mustafizur 3-18) by four wickets Part of Kolkata Knight Riders, Kuldeep Yadav didn’t get a single game last IPL. The reason perhaps is that in the two preceding IPLs, he picked just five wickets in 45 overs. In seven overs this year against the franchise that let him…
Middlesex 142 for 2 (Stoneman 80*) trail Leicestershire 149 (Helm 3-23, Shaheen 3-54) by seven runs Shaheen Shah Afridi and Tom Helm took three wickets apiece as Middlesex’s potent seam attack shone again on the opening day of their LV= Insurance County Championship clash against Leicestershire at Lord’s. The Seaxes, who dismissed Glamorgan cheaply twice to secure an innings victory last week, bowled their visitors out for 149, with Afridi…
Surrey 294 for 4 (Smith 111*, Pope 84, Curran 57*) vs Gloucestershire Jamie Smith served up defiance aplenty to register a hard-earned hundred and give Surrey the upper hand on day one of the LV=Insurance County Championship match against Gloucestershire at Bristol’s Seat Unique Stadium. Without a score of note in two previous outings this season, the 21-year-old found his touch to raise 111 not out from 238 balls, holding…
Sussex 82 for 1 (Haines 54) trail Durham 223 (Trevaskis 88, Clark 3-21, Beard 3-51) by 141 runs Sussex enjoyed their best day of the season in the LV= County Championship, dismissing Durham for 223 before skipper Tom Haines made his third half-century of the season as they reached 82 for one on the first day at Hove. Durham’s total represented something of a fightback after they had been 75…
Daniel Vettori, the former New Zealand and Royal Challengers Bangalore captain, believes Varun Chakravarthy “needs a Plan B very soon”. His lack of a counter against top-quality batters who have figured out the methods that previously brought him much success could be one of the reasons for his massive dip in form this IPL season, Vettori said on ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time Out. On Thursday, Knight Riders left Chakravarthy out of…
Derbyshire 282 for 5 (Guest 109, Madsen 70, Masood 60) vs Glamorgan Shan Masood’s remarkable start to the season continued but he was overshadowed by a century from Brooke Guest that gave Derbyshire the advantage on the opening day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match at Derby. The Pakistan batter scored 60 before falling to Michael Hogan, who was the pick of the Glamorgan attack with 3 for 45, but…
Kent 270 for 6 (Bell-Drummond 109, Cox 68, Robinson 58, Rauf 3-52) vs Yorkshire A second century in as many games for Daniel Bell-Drummond helped Kent recover from early strife to claim the opening day’s honours in their LV= Insurance County Championship fixture against Yorkshire at Headingley. This Division One clash features two counties dealing with injury issues, but it was the visitors who will be much the happier after…