The fast bowlers showing the ability to take wickets from slow pitches was the biggest gain for West Indies from their 2-0 win over Bangladesh, according to head coach Phil Simmons. Alzarri Joseph was the series’ top wicket-taker while Kemar Roach became only the sixth West Indies bowler to take 250 wickets during the series. Kyle Mayers and Jayden Seales contributed with regular wickets while Anderson Philip made an impressive…
Captain Shakib Al Hasan has said that Bangladesh didn’t show enough character against West Indies in the St Lucia Test. West Indies completed a ten-wicket trouncing of the visitors on the rain-interrupted fourth day. Bangladesh, six-down overnight, lasted just over an hour on the day, getting bowled out for 186 to leave the home side a target of 13 to complete the 2-0 series sweep. Bangladesh came into the fourth…
New Zealand’s men’s team will play England in a day-night Test in Mount Maunganui, host a limited-overs visit by India and be part of a T20I tri-series ahead of the World Cup as part of their 2022-23 home season. Sri Lanka will also arrive for an all-format tour which includes two Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is while the New Zealand women’s team will host Bangladesh for ODIs and T20Is…
West Indies 408 (Mayers 146, Brathwaite 51, Khaled 5-106) and 13 for 0 beat Bangladesh 234 (Litton 53, Joseph 3-50, Seales 3-53) and 186 (Nurul 60*, Seales 3-21, Roach 3-54, Joseph 3-57) by 10 wickets West Indies beat Bangladesh by 10 wickets in the second Test and took a one-sided series 2-0 at Daren Sammy Stadium. Both tests were won well inside four days. A wet outfield washed out the…
Lancashire 226 for 4 (Jennings 94, Croft 49*) trail Gloucestershire 337 (Dent 110, Gohar 62, Morley 4-91) by 111 runs Opener Keaton Jennings narrowly missed out on a century as Lancashire built a promising position on the second day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match with Gloucestershire at Bristol. The experienced England Test batsman hit 94, off 152 balls, with 15 fours and a six, helping his side reach…
Worcestershire 271 and 147 for 6 (Libby 49, Neser 3-34) lead Glamorgan 139 (Byrom 57, Leach 6-44) by 279 runs Joe Leach marked his return to first team action with career best figures of 6 for 44 to help Worcestershire establish control on day two of the LV=Insurance County Championship match with Glamorgan at New Road. The allrounder has been side-lined since suffering a back problem in mid-May but quickly…
It was only four days ago that Marizanne Kapp thought she wasn’t cut out for Test cricket. She had one cap to her name, hadn’t played in the format for more than seven years, hadn’t had any experience in multi-innings matches since then and in a red-ball warm-up against England A scored a duck, took no wickets, then smashed 34 off 28 balls, including six fours, and did not bowl…
Related Bairstow, Root rampage to England’s seven-wicket win, and series clean-sweep Stokes hails ‘unbelievable’ mindset switch as England power to 3-0 series win Billings added to England squad for India series decider New Zealand’s Test superstars have started to fade Stokes said that his plan with Bairstow had been to make him feel “comfortable” with his role in the side as an attacking middle-order batter at No. 5. “Just take…
Kent 147 for 2 (Bell-Drummond 62*) trail Surrey 673 for 7 dec (Curran 126, Jacks 103*) by 526 runs No matter its grandeur, a great building in a world city is almost certain to be ignored by those who live in the metropolis. A visitor turning sharp left out of Oval tube station is immediately struck by the towered splendour of the Micky Stewart Members’ Pavilion and by the mighty…
Warwickshire 71 for 1 trail Northamptonshire 420 for 6 (Hannon-Dalby 4-84) by 380 runs Oliver Hannon-Dalby celebrated 250 career first-class wickets as he ran through Northamptonshire’s lower order on day two of this LV= Insurance County Championship game at Northampton. In a miserly four-over spell, Hannon-Dalby claimed four victims for just five runs as Northamptonshire added 31 runs to their overnight total to close on 451 all out. The 33-year-old-seamer…