Lancashire 183 for 7 (David 60, Brown 3-35) beat Worcestershire 171 for 8 (Munro 53, Gleeson 5-33) by 12 runs Tim David hit Lancashire’s joint-second fastest T20 fifty and Richard Gleeson took a career-best 5 for 33 as Lancashire defeated Worcestershire by 12 runs to secure their first victory in this year’s Vitality Blast. David made 60 off 25 balls to help the home side post exactly 183 for the…
County Select XI 247 (James 52, Patel 3-32) and 264 for 3 (Compton 119, Gubbins 67*) beat New Zealanders 362 for 9 (Henry 65, Mitchell 58, Fletcher 50*, Patterson-White 3-60) and 148 (Porter 5-31, Gibbon 3-36) by seven wickets New Zealand were beaten by seven wickets in their final warm-up game ahead of Thursday’s first Test against England at Lord’s as Ben Compton‘s fifth hundred of the season led the…
Southern Vipers 142 for 5 (Wyatt 76, Higham 3-30) beat Lightning 141 (Kelly 36, Higham 31, Elwiss 3-28) England opener Danni Wyatt cracked 76 from 44 balls at Trent Bridge as Southern Vipers made it four wins from four in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, which all but guarantees their place at next month’s finals day. Lightning, who suffered a third defeat in four, were bowled out for 141 in 19.4…
Western Storm 169 for 5 (Luff 78, Knight 34) beat Sunrisers 128 for 6 (Dattani 53) by 41 runs Sophie Luff registered a brilliant half century as Western Storm defeated Sunrisers by 42 runs at the Cooper Associates Ground in Taunton to keep alive their hopes of progressing from Group B in the Charlotte Edwards Cup. Storm’s talismanic captain won the toss, elected to bat, top-scored with 78 from 54…
Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Bess Heath, 3.4 ov), 2-61 (Sterre Kalis, 10.4 ov), 3-63 (Hollie Armitage, 11.3 ov), 4-78 (Leah Dobson, 14.1 ov), 5-78 (Leigh Kasperek, 14.2 ov), 6-87 (Abigail Glen, 15.4 ov), 7-113 (Linsey Smith, 17.5 ov), 8-124 (Phoebe Turner, 19.3 ov), 9-124 (Emma Marlow, 19.5 ov), 10-124 (Katie Levick, 19.6 ov) Source: ESPN Crickinfo
Brendon McCullum has suggested that he will look to reintegrate a number of England’s white-ball stars into the Test side – naming Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid and Liam Livingstone as players who could be part of his future plans. McCullum was unveiled as England’s new Test coach at Lord’s on Friday, speaking at length about his hopes for reinvigorating the set-up. Although the squad named for next week’s…
County Select XI 247 and 112 for 1 (Compton 56*) need a further 152 to beat New Zealanders 362 for 9 dec (Henry 65, Mitchell 58, Fletcher 50*) and 148 (Porter 5-31) After four playing days of largely serene progress in their build-up towards the first Test, New Zealand were blindsided by the County Select XI at Chelmsford. Jamie Porter ripped out five top-order wickets, to belatedly remind the England…
Derbyshire 159 for 5 (Masood 53, du Plooy 38*) beat Leicestershire 89 (Kerr 2-6, McKiernan 2-17) by 70 runs Derbyshire Falcons picked up their first win of the Vitality Blast campaign as Leicestershire Foxes crashed to a second heavy defeat. Pakistan opener Shan Masood made 53, sharing what proved to be the key partnership of the innings with Leus du Plooy, who hit an unbeaten 38 as the Falcons posted…
Who are playing? Harmanpreet Kaur‘s Supernovas, the most successful team in the Women’s T20 Challenge, are eyeing their third title as they take on the tournament’s only side without a trophy, Velocity, who are led by Deepti Sharma. The final begins at 7.30pm at the MCA Stadium in Pune. What’s at stake? A chance to take home silverware that may be up for grabs for the last time, if the…
Toss Velocity chose to bowl vs Supernovas Deepti Sharma, the captain of the Velocity team, won the toss and put Supernovas in to bat in the final of the Women’s T20 Challenge at Maharashtra Cricket Stadium in Pune. While Velocity went in unchanged, Supernovas brought in Mansi Joshi and Rashi Kanojiya in place of Meghna Singh and Chandu V. Deepti chose to field because “there is a bit of freedom…