Month: August 2022

After a summer of indifferent white-ball performances from the men’s senior side, arrives the Hundred, as exactly the whiff of fresh air the national team might be in need of. England began this season well, with a comfortable sweep of the ODI series against Netherlands, but have since faltered, losing seven of their last 11 completed white-ball internationals. The Hundred comes amidst a change of captain and coach for England,…

Leicestershire 248 for 3 (Welch 127*, Mulder 71*) beat Surrey 246 for 8 (Geddes 73, Hendricks 4-39) by seven wickets Opener Nick Welch hit 127 not out from 125 balls and Wiaan Mulder cruised to an unbeaten 71 as Leicestershire kicked off their Royal London Cup Group A campaign with a comfortable seven-wicket victory against a youthful Surrey team at Guildford. Welch and Mulder’s unbroken fourth wicket stand of 141…

Warwickshire 265 for 2 (Sibley 106, Yates 87*) beat Gloucestershire 264 (Wells 76, Gohar 62, Miles 3-53) by eight wickets An opening stand of 152 between centurion Dom Sibley and Rob Yates paved the way for Warwickshire’s emphatic eight-wicket Royal London Cup win over Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College. The home side posted 264 all out from 48.5 overs after losing the toss, Ben Wells and Zafar Gohar hitting career-best List…

Glamorgan 112 for 2 (Carlson 54*) beat Derbyshire 110 (van der Gugten 4-41) by eight wickets Glamorgan began their defence of the Royal London One-Day Cup with an emphatic eight wicket victory over Derbyshire in the opening Group B match at Derby. Timm van der Gugten took 4 for 41 and Jamie McIlroy 2 for 13 as Derbyshire were bowled out for 110 after Glamorgan won the toss in a…

Toss India chose to bowl vs West Indies India asked West Indies to bat in the third T20I in Basseterre, on the pitch used for a low-scoring match in the first of the double-header in St Kitts. In the second game of the series on Monday, West Indies bowled India out for 138 to level the series, thanks to left-arm seamer Obed McCoy’s six-for. Rohit Sharma said that while the…

England 167 for 5 (Capsey 50, Brunt 38*, Jones 36*, Ismail 2-27) beat South Africa 141 for 4 (Wolvaardt 41*, Brunt 1-16) by 26 runs A half-century to 17-year-old Alice Capsey helped England to two wins from as many matches at the Commonwealth Games as they beat South Africa by 26 runs at Edgbaston. Capsey reached fifty in 36 balls and became just the second teenager to reach the milestone…

Aiden Markram won’t say it quite yet, but in spite of the bottleneck of top-order batters in South Africa’s T20I squad, he is fairly sure of his place to Australia for the World Cup. And you would think he should be. Markram is ranked third on the ICC’s T20I batting rankings, averages 42.60 in T20Is, strikes at 146.55 and contributes with part time offspin. But he has only played one…

Jonny Bairstow has pulled out of the opening stages of the Hundred, ESPNcricinfo understands. Bairstow had been due to play for Welsh Fire, and was expected to be available for the first two or three games – including Wednesday’s season opener against defending champions Southern Brave – before linking up with England’s Test squad to play South Africa. But he has pulled out to rest ahead of that series and…

England have handed a recall to Ollie Robinson for the upcoming home Test series with South Africa. Robinson, the right-arm seamer whose last Test appearance was against Australia in Hobart in January this year, has made the squad of 14 for the first two matches of the three-match series after a battle with an array of ailments that kept him out of action for almost two months. After coming through…

The PCB is refusing to provide no-objection certificates (NOCs) to Pakistani players – contracted or not contracted – who want to participate in the upcoming BBL season. The board has also not clarified whether it will allow players to take part in the ILT20 in the UAE early next year. The reason for the stance, it is believed, is the packed calendar – domestic and international. But it’s unclear why…