Mumbai Indians 177 for 6 (Kishan 45, David 44*, Rohit 43, Rashid 2-24) beat Gujarat Titans 172 for 5 (Saha 55, Gill 52, Ashwin 2-29) by 5 runs Almost out of the tournament, needing a lot of permutations and combinations in the rest of the tournament to stay alive, Mumbai Indians still gave their raucous home crowd something to cheer about, defending eight runs in the last over with six…
Glamorgan 305 for 5 (Carlson 91, Northeast 84) trail Leicestershire 320 (Patel 82, Azad 64, Labuschagne 3-65) by 15 runs Glamorgan reached 305 for 5 at the end of the second day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Leicestershire, still 15 runs behind on first innings. The day started with Leicestershire still batting with two wickets in hand. A useful stand between Callum Parkinson and Chris Wright took…
Hampshire 342 (Organ 107, Vince 78) and 28 for 4 (Amir 3-22) lead Gloucestershire 179 (Abbas 6-45) by 191 runs Mohammad Abbas celebrated his first LV= Insurance County Championship five-wicket haul of the season but Gloucestershire’s ripsnorting evening session snatched the momentum from Hampshire. Hampshire looked set for a first-innings lead in excess of 200 after Abbas ripped through the visitors with a textbook showcase of line and length bowling…
Middlesex 284 for 6 (Simpson 71, Holden 58, Hollman 52*, Robinson 3-37) trail Sussex 392 (Alsop 113, Orr 99, Garton 53) by 108 runs Ollie Robinson made an impressive return to action after four months out with three wickets on the second day of Sussex’s LV= County Championship match against Middlesex at Hove. The 28-year-old hasn’t played since January when he suffered back spasms during the Ashes series. An infection…
Yorkshire 81 for 3 trail Essex 403 (Walter 141, Cook 107, Harmer 54) by 322 runs There is only one Nobel Prize winner to have played first-class cricket – and it is not hard to see why the game appealed to Samuel Beckett. Waiting is a practically part of the mise-en-scene. And so, while the players of Essex and Yorkshire embraced their roles to the full during an engaging tussle…
Durham 580 for 6 dec (Stokes 161, Bedingham 135, Dickson 104) vs Worcestershire For my first trick, how about a county-record number of sixes? Ben Stokes marked his first appearance since his elevation to the England captaincy in extraordinary fashion with 17 of them for Durham in the LV= Championship. It was bold, it was brutal and it was utterly contemptuous, and those present to see it at Worcester delighted…
Big picture Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders are two teams on opposite ends of the points table. Super Giants are currently second with 14 points from ten games. One more win and they will be within touching distance of the playoffs. Knight Riders are placed eighth with four wins from ten games. If they lose on Saturday, they will be all but out of the race. In Super…
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Ben Stokes marked his first first-class innings since being appointed England captain with a breathtaking innings of 161 from 126 balls for Durham against Worcestershire at New Road, including five sixes in an over, and 17 all told – a new record for county cricket. Here’s how ESPNcricinfo recorded his return to action. 98.6Gibbon to Stokes, FOUR, full face of the bat, punched clean through the covers to open Stokes’…
Somerset hope that the addition of Rilee Rossouw to their core of talented young batters will take them one step further in the T20 Blast this season after losing to Kent in the 2021 final. Rossouw spent three seasons at Hampshire as a Kolpak player from 2017-19 and blitzed 156 off 113 balls against Somerset at Taunton in the Royal London Cup early on in his time with them. “I…