Hetmyer left Mumbai on Monday morning on the back of another high-impact cameo – 31 not out off 16 balls against Punjab Kings that helped seal a chase of 190. James Neesham, Daryl Mitchell, Karun Nair, Rassie van der Dussen and Nathan Coulter-Nile might now be in the running to fill the vacancy he’s left behind in the batting order. Source: ESPN Crickinfo
Ben Stokes, England’s new Test captain, has confirmed that Joe Root will move back to No. 4 in the order when the team returns to action against New Zealand next month. Root, Stokes’ predecessor who stood down after five years in the role, had moved up to No. 3 for England’s most-recent series, a 1-0 defeat in the Caribbean. Root averages 51.27 at four, almost 12 runs higher than his…
Warwickshire 315 and 4 for 0 trail Lancashire 361 (Jennings 110, Wells 80, McAndrew 4-85) by 42 runs A four-day match in which 10 wickets fall in the first five sessions cannot easily accommodate the loss of the sixth; not, at any rate, if a draw is to be avoided. So the easy consensus as the rain fell on Emirates Old Trafford on Friday was that this game was heading…
Leicestershire 320 and 158 for 7 (Azad 58, Neser 3-36) lead Glamorgan 437 (Cooke 52) by 41 runs An effective lower-order batting display and wickets for Michael Neser and David Lloyd have left Glamorgan in a very strong position going into the final day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Leicestershire in Cardiff. Glamorgan started the day on 305 for 5 and a fifty from Chris Cooke and…
Worcestershire 309 (Leach 62, Potts 6-62) and 85 for 2 need a further 357 to beat Durham 580 for 6 dec and 170 for 1 dec (Dickson 105, Lees 60*) Two centuries in the match for Sean Dickson, the second of them a rip-roaring affair made at a pace that only Ben Stokes has ever outdone in Durham’s history, and then only on the previous day, have prepared the ground…
Sussex 392 and 236 for 3 (Pujara 125*, Alsop 66) lead Middlesex 358 (Hollman 82, Simpson 71, Holden 58, Andersson 55, Robinson 5-66) by 270 runs A five-wicket haul to Ollie Robinson in his comeback match and yet another fine innings from Cheteshwar Pujara gave Sussex a firm grip on their clash against Middlesex heading into the final day at Hove. It was just 13 months ago that Robinson sensed…
Gloucestershire 179 and 111 for 2 (Scott 70*) need a further 257 to beat Hampshire 342 and 204 (Donald 89, Amir 3-33) Aneurin Donald marked his return from two years of injury hell with a tubthumping 89 as Hampshire and Gloucestershire’s topsy-turvy LV= Insurance County Championship clash set up an exciting final day. Welshman Donald hadn’t played since September 2019 due to two serious knee injuries but dug Hampshire out…
Yorkshire 425 for 5 (Brook 110*, Malan 87*, Root 75) lead Essex 403 by 22 runs Harry Brook upstaged former England skipper Joe Root as Yorkshire feasted on the Essex bowling on day three of their LV= Insurance County Championship clash at Chelmsford. Root, in what was remarkably only his 50th County Championship appearance for the White Rose despite making his debut back in April 2011, stroked his way to…
Lucknow Super Giants 176 for 7 (de Kock 50, Hooda 41, Russell 2-22) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 101 (Russell 45, Avesh 3-19, Holder 3-31) by 75 runs Lucknow Super Giants went to the top of the table, with three matches to go, with a comprehensive win against Kolkata Knight Riders, who now stood all but knocked out. Knowing the slow Pune pitch would be ill-suited to shot-making in the middle…
Khaled Mahmud, the Bangladesh team director, feels Mustafizur Rahman should not have been allowed to pick and choose the formats he wished to play, as it has led to a fast-bowling vacuum in the Test side. Mustafizur is currently playing in the IPL for Delhi Capitals, having taken eight wickets in as many matches this season. Ahead of this year’s IPL, the BCB gave Mustafizur the clearance to play in…