Toss India chose to bowl vs Australia India gained a significant advantage when they won the toss and opted to chase in a severely reduced T20 international in Nagpur. Adding to that feeling is the return of Jasprit Bumrah, who will play his first game of cricket in over two months. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who has suffered a slight dip in form recently, became a casualty of the game being cut…
Glamorgan 550 for 5 dec (Lloyd 313*, Root 79) beat Derbyshire 253 (Dal 92, Came 64, Reece 56, Patel 5-68) and 273 (Madsen 77, du Plooy 66, van der Gugten 3-41, Harris 3-59) by an innings and 24 runs Glamorgan survived a nervous morning to claim the innings-and-24-run victory over Derbyshire they needed to keep their chances of promotion alive. Seamer James Harris made the crucial breakthroughs to claim the…
Middlesex 297 (Simpson 92, Eskinazi 64, Higgins 53, Finan 5-58) and 271 (Holden 91, Stoneman 81, Parkinson 4-69) beat Leicestershire 294 (Swindells 67, Scriven 65) and 194 (Ackermann 80, Roland-Jones 4-50) by 80 runs Having had Leicestershire on the ropes at 13 for four at Thursday’s close, Middlesex took rather longer than anticipated to finish the job, but duly completed an 80-run victory to set up an unexpectedly exciting finale…
Durham 459 for 7 dec (Jones 96, Maddinson 90, Borthwick 82, Benjamin 82*) beat Sussex 162 (Orr 36, Coughlin 3-33, Potts 3-53) and 157 (Raine 5-54) by an innings and 140 runs Durham wrapped up victory after lunch on Day Four at Chester-le-Street after some brave Sussex resistance finally came to an end. Tom Haines fell to Oliver Gibson for the only wicket in the morning session after the visitors…
Somerset 389 (Abell 111, Bartlett 62, Keogh 4-99) and 337 for 4 dec (Abell 115, Lammonby 110) beat Northamptonshire 265 (Young 85, Overton 5-38) and 109 (Davey 3-25) by 352 runs Somerset’s Division One status is assured after a season of perpetual worry and how appropriate that it was two hundreds in the match from their worthiest of captains, Tom Abell, that brought relief to Taunton on their final day…
Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs England Babar Azam won the toss and chose to bowl in the third T20I between Pakistan and England in Karachi, with the seven-match series currently level at 1-1. Pakistan were unchanged while England handed out a maiden cap to their second debutant of the tour, with Surrey allrounder Will Jacks included. Mark Wood was also selected for his first England appearance since the Antigua…
West Zone 270 (Patel 98, Sai Kishore 5-86) and 376 for 3 (Jaiswal 209*, Iyer 71, Sai Kishore 2-100) lead South Zone 327 (Indrajith 118, Unadkat 4-52) by 319 runs Young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal smashed a double-hundred in just about two-and-half sessions as West Zone took control, despite South’s 57-run first-innings lead on the third day of the Duleep Trophy final in Coimbatore. At the end of third day’s play,…
It was a press conference unlike any other in Indian women’s cricket. Jhulan Goswami, who is set to play her last international match on Saturday, had more than the usual handful of journalists there to meet her, virtually, of course. The questions ranged from her favourite memories and regrets to the big one: what next. And Goswami showed the patience of a fast bowler who has run in hard for…
Pace bowler Hannah Darlington will miss the first part of the WNCL and WBBL tournaments after suffering a knee injury late in pre-season training. She will undergo surgery on the meniscus on her left knee on Monday and is aiming to return in the latter part of the WBBL with Sydney Thunder which runs until late November. Darlington, who has played two ODIs and two T20Is, picked up the injury…
Ollie Robinson, the Kent wicketkeeper-batter, has agreed a three-year deal to join Durham from the end of the season. Robinson, 23, made his Kent debut in 2017 and has played for England Lions, but went on loan to Durham earlier in the summer in order to gain opportunities in T20 cricket, where he has had to contend with Sam Billings and Jordan Cox being above him in the pecking order….