Jim Parks, the former Sussex and England wicketkeeper-batter, has died at the age of 90. He had been England’s oldest living Test cricketer. Parks played 46 Tests between 1954 and 1968, although his county career continued for another eight years, into his mid-40s. He later worked for the brewer Whitbread, and as marketing manager for Sussex, where he also served two terms as club president. Sussex announced that he had…
Surrey 129 (Jacks 51, Smith 3-13, van Meekeren 3-32) beat Gloucestershire 92 (Higgins 37, Curran 4-14) by 37 runs England have gone left-arm crazy in white-ball cricket, picking as many as five left-arm seamers in their 14-man squad for a three-match ODI series in the Netherlands next week. Two of them, Sam Curran and Reece Topley, combined to devastating effect at the Kia Oval on Tuesday night, ripping out Gloucestershire’s…
Derbyshire 84 for 1 (Madsen 39*) beat Yorkshire 83 for 3 (Malan 50) by nine wickets Wayne Madsen‘s unbeaten 39 off 21 balls saw Derbyshire to a nine-wicket victory over Yorkshire in his 400th appearance for the county as Falcons chased 84 in an eight-over Vitality Blast fixture at Headingley. Australian overseas allrounder Hayden Kerr set Derbyshire on their way to a second North Group win in three games with…
Essex 152 for 2 (Pepper 75*) beat Hampshire 150 for 6 (McDermott 38) by eight wickets Michael Pepper smashed his T20 best as Essex Eagles demolished Hampshire Hawks by eight wickets in their Vitality Blast clash at the Cloud County Ground, Chelmsford. Pepper dispatched four sixes to go alongside eight fours to crash a 42-ball 75 – bettering his previous best of 55 not out. Matt Critchley pummelled 45 in…
Lancashire 178 for 7 (Jennings 55) Nottinghamshire 91 (Livingstone 3-33) by 87 runs Lancashire Lightning ended a run of nine consecutive Trent Bridge defeats against Notts Outlaws by dismissing the home side for 91 – equalling the lowest score in their T20 history – and sending them crashing to a 87-run loss in this Vitality Blast North Group match, their heaviest defeat in the competition. Outlaws felt their bowlers had…
Yorkshire have brought in West Indies allrounder Dominic Drakes as a short-term replacement for Shadab Khan for four Vitality Blast games. Drakes, who was an unused member of Gujarat Titans’ title-winning squad at the IPL, is set to make his debut on Friday night against Durham at Headingley, with Shadab returning to Pakistan for their ODI series against West Indies. “We are delighted to welcome Dominic to Yorkshire for the…
West Indies 249 for 3 (Hope 119, Brooks 60, King 59*) beat Netherlands 240 for 7 (Nidamanuru 58, Vikramjit Singh 47, Hosein 2-29, Mayers 2-50) by seven wickets Shai Hope‘s 11th ODI century studded West Indian domination in the first of three ODIs against Netherlands in Amstelveen. On a blustery day with sheets of rain that reduced the game to 45-overs a side, West Indies made light work of a…
The first qualifying event for the 2024 T20 World Cup will commence in June in Europe as the ICC unveiled the process and schedule for the pathway events in the continent. The two-year qualification process sees 15 different pathway events take place, with teams from six continents vying for qualification berths. It will also mark the largest contingent of teams at the finals in the USA and the West Indies,…
David Holford, former West Indies allrounder, has died in Barbados, his homeland, at the age of 82. Reports indicate he was ailing for some time. He was a legspinner and lower-middle-order batter who featured for West Indies in 24 Tests between 1966 and 1977, picking up 51 wickets and scoring 768 runs with a hundred to his name. He captained Barbados in the 1970s and led them to five Shell…
The MCC have defended setting “premium” ticket prices for England’s first Test under new leadership against New Zealand at Lord’s this week, with a significant number of tickets still available across the first four days. The Test takes place on a bank-holiday weekend for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, meaning Thursday and Friday are both national holidays, while most schools are also on half-term holidays during the summer term. The UK…