Month: July 2022

Middlesex 417 for 7 (Simpson 132*) trail Durham 421 for 7 dec (Jones 206, Bedingham 62, Borthwick 55, Roland-Jones 4-67) by four runs John Simpson defied Durham with a brilliant century to steer Middlesex to near parity on day three of the LV= Insurance County Championship Division Two clash at Seat Unique Riverside. The 34-year-old continued his impressive Championship form, scoring an unbeaten hundred to guide the visitors out of…

Gloucestershire 317 and 135 for 5 (Harris 62) trail Northamptonshire 479 (Rickelton 95, Procter 78, Sales 71, Young 61, Gohar 5-134) by 27 runs James Sales hit a career-best 71 to help Northamptonshire build a winning position on the third day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match with Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College. Unbeaten on 21 overnight, the 19-year-old shared a key ninth-wicket stand of 78 with Ben Sanderson as…

Warwickshire 253 and 270 for 4 (Hain 87*, Rhodes 72*) lead Surrey 316 (Pope 65) by 207 runs Sam Hain‘s assured 87 not out and his superb unbroken stand of 127 with Will Rhodes enabled Warwickshire to fight back strongly on day three to reach a second innings 270 for 4 against Surrey at the Kia Oval. Warwickshire captain Rhodes was unbeaten on 72 when bad light ended proceedings seven…

Nottinghamshire 240 and 284 for 7 (Hameed 94, James 56, Robinson 3-55) lead Sussex 143 (Paterson 5-43, Pattinson 5-56) by 381 runs England’s Ollie Robinson increased his wickets haul to seven in the match but Nottinghamshire were in full control at the halfway stage of their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Sussex. Robinson proved deadly with the new ball for the second time, reducing the Division Two leaders to…

Worcestershire 185 (Kashif 52, Aitchison 4-40) and 108 for 5 (Aitchison 3-27) trail Derbyshire 130 (Dal 55, Pennington 4-36) and 343 (Dal 112*, McKiernan 71, Madsen 69) by 181 runs Derbyshire’s strong victory push was held up by the weather on day three of the LV=Insurance County Championship match with Worcestershire at New Road. They set the home side a 289 target, after Anuj Dal completed a century, and had…

South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first vs England Stand-in captain David Miller opted to bowl first in the first men’s T20I between South Africa and England at Bristol after Jos Buttler lost his seventh success toss as captain. South Africa welcomed Rilee Rossouw back into their side, nearly six years after his most recent international appearance. They left Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Dwaine Pretorius…

The Asia Cup 2022 will be held in UAE, as reported by ESPNcricinfo earlier this month. Sri Lanka will remain hosts for the tournament to be played between August 27 and September 11. “Every effort was made to host the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka and the decision to shift the venue to the UAE was taken after much deliberation,” Jay Shah, the Asian Cricket Council President, was quoted as…

South Africa batter David Miller has been named the captain of Barbados Royals for the 2022 CPL season, replacing Jason Holder, who had been at the helm for the last four seasons. Miller, who will return to the CPL for the first time in three seasons having last represented Jamaica Tallawahs in 2018 and St Lucia Zouks in 2016, was snapped up by Royals earlier this month along with his…

Former Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer hopes the “shocking” findings of the Changing the Boundaries report published on Monday can be the catalyst for change in Scottish cricket. Last Sunday, ahead of the report’s publication, Cricket Scotland’s entire board resigned, in doing so offering an apology to those affected by institutional racism. Most notably that included the former Scotland internationals whose allegations had set the review in motion, Majid Haq and…

The PCB has ushered in a number of major changes to the domestic structure for the 2022-23 season, where 187 matches will be played across formats over five months starting August 30. The second XI tournaments, played between six teams, will now be played on a double-league basis across formats. In the T20 tournament, each side will play a minimum of ten matches and a total of 30 matches as…