Month: July 2022

Middlesex 188 and 180 for 6 (Hollman 37*, Pennington 3-37) lead Worcestershire 191 (Barnard 69, Roland-Jones 4-60) by 177 runs Luke Hollman‘s unbeaten knock of 37 tilted a see-saw contest fractionally in Middlesex’s favour as they built a 177-run advantage against Worcestershire in their LV= Insurance County Championship match at Merchant Taylors’ School. Hollman – who top-scored with 62 in the first innings – shored up the lower order after…

Gloucestershire 136 and 140 for 6 (Harmer 5-51) trail Essex 310 (Cook 145, Westley 90, Gohar 5-84) by 34 runs Alastair Cook and Simon Harmer combined to leave Essex on the cusp of victory in their LV=County Championship match with Gloucestershire at Chelmsford. Cook recorded his 31st first-class century for his county on his way to 145 out of 310 all out before off-spinner Harmer bagged 5 for 51 wickets…

Kent 287 for 5 (Cox 63*, Denly 63, Leaning 63) trail Northamptonshire 303 (Gay 112, Rickelton 55) by 16 runs Kent were 287 for 5 after day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship game with Northamptonshire at Canterbury, trailing by 16 with five first-innings wickets remaining. Hefty partnerships of 91 between Joe Denly and Ben Compton and then exactly 100 between Jack Leaning and Jordan Cox helped Kent close…

50 overs Ireland 216 (Dockrell 74, McBrine 28, Bracewell 2-26, Santner 2-32, Henry 2-40) vs New Zealand A dominant bowling performance from New Zealand pinned down Ireland to 216 in Malahide and gave the visitors a shot at wrapping up the three-match ODI series, with one game to go. Matt Henry, Jacob Duffy, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner and Glenn Phillips shared the spoils for New Zealand. That Ireland reached 216,…

Dr. Vince Adams, a member of the the USA Cricket Committee appointed in August 2020, has leveled scathing criticism at the board for its handling of recent financial and governance issues, including prioritising a payment of US $300,000 to ex-CEO Iain Higgins ahead of money owed to the national team players. Adams has fired off a series of emails in recent days, copies of which have been obtained by ESPNcricinfo,…

Big picture A bit of competitiveness has finally arrived in the West Indies-Bangladesh series after the visitors registered their first win on tour in the first ODI. Many could have predicted that it would be the ODIs where the visitors would excel, after the ruinous Tests and T20Is of the last four weeks. Tamim Iqbal turned things around for Bangladesh and they will now look to close out the series….

Reigning champions Jaffna Kings will take on Galle Gladiators in the curtain raiser for the third edition of the LPL, set to begin on August 1 in Colombo. The final will take place on August 21 in Hambantota. SLC, in a media release, revealed that the first 14 matches – a majority of the first round games – would take place at the RPICS, Colombo before the action moves to…

Toss India chose to bowl vs England Rohit Sharma chose to bowl in the first ODI at The Kia Oval, as England welcomed back their Test-match big guns of Joe Root, Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow, just as India prepared to make do without their own grandest name. Virat Kohli will sit out this match after sustaining a mild groin strain, with Shreyas Iyer handed the chance to impress at…

Chamari Athapaththu rose to her joint-career-best spot at No. 8, which she last reached after her mammoth 178 against Australia in the 2017 World Cup. Harmanpreet Kaur, who scored 119 runs and picked up two wickets in a Player-of-the-Series performance moved up four spots in the allrounders’ rankings to No. 20. A couple of spots behind, at No. 22, Chloe Tryon emerged with a promotion of 12 positions thanks to…

“It’s exciting to be a part of any of the big franchise tournaments, and the ILT20 has big plans to be a major franchise tournament,” Flower said in a statement released by the franchise. “As leaders, our job is to serve the players as best we can, and this principle is very important to me.” The appointment is initially only for the inaugural season. “We are confident that Andy will…