After a record 176-run stand between Deepak Hooda and Sanju Samson – the highest for any wicket for India in T20Is – propelled their side to 225, Ireland gave them an almighty scare, dragging the second T20I down to the last ball. Mark Adair, however, didn’t connect well enough and managed just a single, as Ireland fell five short of a famous victory in Malahide. Their captain Andy Balbirnie was…
Australia Test opener Usman Khawaja has signed with Brisbane Heat for the upcoming BBL season and will captain his new club when available after departing Sydney Thunder for family reasons. Khawaja lives in Brisbane with his family and is Queensland’s Sheffield Shield and Marsh Cup captain but had remained with Thunder in the BBL up until now. Khawaja’s move to Heat had long been touted after he announced he was…
Western Australia will begin their Sheffield Shield title defence against New South Wales at the WACA, while the details of the expanded WNCL have been locked in with the announcement of the domestic fixtures for the Australian summer. There will be a full men’s domestic programme for the first time since 2018-19 following two disrupted seasons caused by Covid-19 and the curtailed 2019-20 Shield when the pandemic began. Related Australia’s…
Derbyshire 551 for 8 dec (Madsen 176, Dal 146*) and 127 for 7 (Reece 42*, Brooks 5-46) lead Sussex 337 by 341 runs Derbyshire’s surprising decision not to enforce the follow-on against Sussex reduced their chances of winning a match they had dominated – and even gave their opponents an outside chance of pulling off an astonishing victory. When Sussex were bowled out for 337 in this LV= Insurance County…
Middlesex 376 (Simpson 92, Holden 86, Stoneman 67, Hollman 52, Pattinson 4-65) and 63 for 0 trail Nottinghamshire 551 for 8 dec (James 155, Mullaney 79, Patterson-White 50, Hollman 4-122) by 112 runs Middlesex face a battle to save a draw after Division Two leaders Nottinghamshire continued to hold the upper hand in their top-of-the-table clash in the LV= Insurance County Championship. Despite an impressive fightback from 106 for five,…
“Bloody brilliant” is how it feels to score a century on your Test debut, in case you were wondering. Just ask Alice Davidson-Richards. One of four players in the England XI making her Test debut, Davidson-Richards, a 28-year-old allrounder, scored 107 and shared a 207-run stand for the sixth wicket with Nat Sciver, which was poignant for many reasons. Sciver, nearly two years her senior, captained Davidson-Richards in their school…
Gloucestershire 337 and 99 for 3 lead Lancashire 402 (Croft 80, Wood 50, Higgins 3-55) by 34 runs Half-centuries from Steven Croft and Luke Wood helped Lancashire move into a potentially winning position on the third day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match with Gloucestershire at the Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol. Croft was dismissed for 80 and Wood 50 as the visitors extended their first innings total from an…
West Indies’ search for the ideal squad to take to the T20 World Cup in October continues at pace with an almost entirely new set of personnel set to take on Bangladesh in a three-match series that starts on July 2. Five of the 16 that played in their last short-form assignment have been left out. It had already been announced that Jason Holder would be rested from these matches,…
Glamorgan 139 and 232 for 5 (Ingram 102) need a further 100 to beat Worcestershire 271 and 199 (Neser 4-50) Colin Ingram hit a superb century – his second in two games in the LV= Insurance County Championship – to keep Glamorgan in the hunt to chase down a 332 target against Worcestershire at New Road. Ingram has seized the opportunity to fill the gap left by Australian star Marnus…
Hilton Cartwright, the Australia allrounder, has signed on a one-month deal with Derbyshire. He will provide cover for Shan Masood for the remainder of the Vitality Blast and up to three LV= Insurance Championship matches in July. Masood was recently called up for Pakistan’s tour of Sri Lanka next month, having been in prolific form for Derbyshire. He is currently the leading scorer in Division Two of the Championship, and…