Australia left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen will miss the start of the T20I tri-series in Ireland after testing positive for Covid-19. Jonassen is currently isolating at home in Brisbane and is due to depart next Monday ahead of Australia’s final two matches of the series which also features Pakistan. Tasmania allrounder Heather Graham has been called into the squad and will link up in Ireland in the coming days. The remainder…
Head coachAndrew McDonald insists Travis Head‘s game has improved in Asia as Australia look to adopt a horses-for-courses approach on future tours of the subcontinent. Australia’s capitulation to an innings loss in Galle on Monday marked a poor end to two tours on the road, where they won 1-0 in Pakistan and drew 1-1 in Sri Lanka. McDonald is adamant the Galle reality check should not overshadow the fact they…
The Australian Ballet is only 20-minute walk from the Melbourne Cricket Ground. But there haven’t been many ballet dancers who have graced the hallowed turf of the MCG, nor have many cricketers stepped into the ballet auditorium. That is until now. One of the world’s fastest female bowlers, Australia’s Tayla Vlaeminck, has taken the unusual step of doing ballet training with the professionals in a bid to find a way…
If England had sent Emma Lamb in to bat at any position, she reckons she would have tried to grab her chance with both hands. That the opportunity came knocking in her favoured opener’s role and resulted in a century as England swept South Africa aside by five wickets in their opening ODI made it “amazing”. Making just her fourth international appearance, Lamb’s 97-ball 102 accounted for much of England’s…
Somerset 297 for 5 (Goldsworthy 103*, Rew 70) vs Lancashire You could argue the pandemic has taught us to treasure occasions like this; you may blithely insist a four-year absence was always likely to sharpen appetites; or you might simply maintain it was love of the game, a concept both vague and easily identified, that caused people to stream into Trafalgar Road in the hour before play, as Lancashire versus…
Yorkshire 364 for 5 (Lyth 152*, Tattersall 104*) vs Surrey Malan, Kohler-Cadmore, Root, Bairstow, Brook, Ballance, Willey, Duke, Rashid, Fisher, Revis, Coad. Not a bad Yorkshire XII. The only problem was that they were the players missing at Scarborough. Playing for England, injured, left out or on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The Yorkshire members making their annual trek to the coast with comparable devotion for the start of the Scarborough…
Nottinghamshire 19 for 0 trail Glamorgan 318 (Carlson 46, Hutton 4-76) by 299 runs It was third v first at Sophia Gardens, where Nottinghamshire were the visitors, and it was honours even at the end of day one of the LV= Division 2 County Championship clash. League leaders Notts did enough to justify the decision of skipper Stephen Mullaney to bat first by bowling out Glamorgan for 318 (84.2 overs)…
Hampshire 42 for 3 (Hannon-Dalby 2-22) trail Warwickshire 217 (McAndrew 63, Sibley 56, Abbott 5-45) by 175 runs Dom Sibley answered Ben Stokes’ call to arms with an aggressive LV= Insurance County Championship half-century before Warwickshire collapsed to 217 against Hampshire. England Test captain Stokes sent a message to county cricketers that the manner in which they play “will be on the selectors’ minds” – with Stokes and head coach…
Worcestershire 100 for 5 (Murtagh 2-22) trail Middlesex 188 (Hollman 62, Helm 50*, Leach 3-58) by 88 runs Bowlers held sway as wickets tumbled on day one of the LV = Insurance County Championship Division Two clash between Middlesex and Worcestershire at Merchant Taylors School. However the hosts too prospered ball in hand, Tim Murtagh returning two for 22 as Worcestershire plummeted to 49 for 5 in reply before Ed…
Durham 2 for 0 trail Derbyshire 283 (du Plooy 122, Dal 90, Rushworth 7-44) by 281 runs Chris Rushworth marked his 36th birthday with his first five-wicket haul of the LV= Insurance County Championship season, taking figures of seven for 44 as Durham bowled out Derbyshire for 283 on day one of their clash at Seat Unique Riverside. Rushworth was irrepressible after Durham opted to bowl first in sweltering conditions….