Northamptonshire 158 for 6 (Lynn 61, Tye 3-28) beat Durham 154 for 8 (Clark 44, White 3-14) by four wickets A fine knock of 61 from Chris Lynn guided Northamptonshire Steelbacks to a four-wicket win over Durham in their Vitality Blast clash at Seat Unique Riverside. The Steelbacks spinners Graeme White and Josh Cobb combined for 5 for 38 from their eight overs, limiting Durham to 154 for 8 in…
Leicestershire 162 for 6 (Patel 37, Lilley 32) beat Worcestershire 136 (Naveen 5-11) by 26 runs Leicestershire Foxes secured their third win in four games with the help of a superb spell of bowling from Naveen-ul-Haq in a 26-run triumph against Worcestershire Rapids at New Road. The Afghanistan pace bowler returned career-best T20 figures of 5 for 10 from four overs as the Foxes comfortably defended a total of 162…
South East Stars 183 for 9 (Smith 50, Jones 33, Cranstone 32) beat Sunrisers 127 (Carr 31) by 56 runs Bryony Smith struck a belligerent half-century as defending champions South East Stars headed into Charlotte Edwards Cup Finals Day on Saturday with a comfortable 56-run win over Sunrisers at Guildford. Smith pummelled exactly 50 from just 30 balls, sharing an opening stand of 87 with Aylish Cranstone as the hosts…
Matt Parkinson has been retained in England’s 14-man squad for the second Test against New Zealand, starting at Trent Bridge on Friday, with Jack Leach a doubt after suffering a concussion in the first session of the first Test at Lord’s. Parkinson took 1 for 47 from his 15.3 overs in New Zealand’s second innings after driving down to London from Manchester at short notice on Thursday as a concussion…
Two players, great mates, both winners. But the contrast in the joy expressed by Ben Stokes and Joe Root over England’s first-Test victory over New Zealand was palpable at Lord’s on Sunday. Root, by his own admission, unburdened by the captaincy – not so much in terms of his personal performance after notching up yet another century, his 26th in Tests to bring up 10,000 runs – but free from…
The emotion was plain for Joe Root as he soaked up the acclaim from an enraptured Lord’s crowd. A phenomenally composed 115 not out, his 26th Test hundred but his first in the fourth innings, had guided England to a gripping five-wicket win over New Zealand in the first Test of the English summer, and ended a barren run of results that stretched back 10 months to the Headingley Test…
Joe Root said he had been spurred on by the opportunity to “pay a bit back” to Ben Stokes after his innings of 115 not out guided England to a five-wicket win against New Zealand at Lord’s in their first Test match since his resignation as captain. Stokes described Root as “Mr Dependent” in the post-match presentation after his first fourth-innings hundred made him the second Englishman to pass 10,000…
An all-round performance from Sri Lankan captain Chamari Athapaththu helped Sri Lanka to a convincing consolation win on the final day of their tour of Pakistan. Batting first, she scored her sixth ODI hundred, a 95-ball 101, before taking 2-20 with the ball to help rout Pakistan by 93 runs. It looked like a miserable tour for Sri Lanka would end with another defeat when they lost two wickets for…
England 141 (Crawley 43, Southee 4-55) and 279 for 5 (Root 115*, Stokes 54, Jamieson 4-79) beat New Zealand 132 (de Grandhomme 42*, Potts 4-13, Anderson 4-66) and 285 (Mitchell 108, Blundell 96) After three madcap days to begin England’s new era of Test cricket under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, there was an air of serenity around their march to victory on the fourth morning at Lord’s. Joe Root…
If a year or so ago, Australia had embarked on a multi-format tour and Josh Hazlewood was more certain of his place in the T20I side – than the Test team – there may have some quizzical looks. Yet, that is how things are playing out for one of Australia’s premier quick bowlers, where Hazlewood is a key part of the T20I team that will start the trip, but barring…