Gloucestershire 255 (Taylor 71, Yadav 5-90, Briggs 3-79) and 149 for 7 (Dent 64, van Buuren 49, Yadav 4-47) beat Warwickshire 274 (Sibley 120, Briggs 65, Gohar 5-64) and 128 (Davies 60, T Price 8-27) by three wickets For much of this match Gloucestershire revealed many of the vulnerabilities expected from a side rooted to the foot of the Division One table. But they have their victory now to sustain…
Surrey 333 (Pope 136, Clark 55, Patterson 4-69) and 55 for 0 (Burns 30*, Patel 19*) beat Yorkshire 179 (Kohler-Cadmore 55, Lawes 4-31) and 208 (Lyth 46, Worrall 4-61) by ten wickets Surrey County Cricket Club, County Champions once more. A second title in four years, a fourth in the 2000s, a 21st in their long and storied history, was claimed in emphatic fashion with victory over Yorkshire by ten…
Sussex 162 (Orr 36, Coughlin 3-33, Potts 3-53) and 9 for 4 (Raine 3-4) trail Durham 459 for 7 dec (Jones 96, Maddinson 90, Borthwick 82, Benjamin 82*) by 288 runs Durham took one wicket at Seat Unique Riverside before rain intervened to halt their charge for victory against Sussex and take the game into the final day. On a day which only saw 14 balls delivered, Ben Raine still…
Shardul Thakur has said that he is being looked at as an “all-format player” for India. Even though he has predominantly featured in ODIs this year, in the limited conversations he has had with the India captain Rohit and head coach Rahul Dravid, Thakur said that the management wants him to play all three formats for the national team. “In the first conversation between them and me, they conveyed to…
Toss England won the toss and chose to bat against Pakistan England won the toss in the second T20I in Karachi, and will bat first. Two days after chasing a target of 169 fairly comfortably, Moeen Ali opted to set one this time. They made just the one change, with Richard Gleeson replaced by Liam Dawson, going in with three spinners on a new strip, albeit one expected to be…
Kent 165 (Compton 63, Abbott 4-46) and 269 (Leaning 112, Abbas 4-68) beat Hampshire 57 (Quinn 6-23) and 300 (Fuller 78*, Vince 73, Weatherley 56, Gilchrist 4-60) by 77 runs Hampshire’s dream of winning the LV= Insurance County Championship title for the first time in 49 years was ended by a 77-run defeat to Kent. But Hampshire’s hopes of replicating the 1961 and 1973 champions were dashed to give Surrey…
Worcestershire 390 (Roderick 102, D’Oliveira 85; Ball 3-60, Hutton 3-86) beat Nottinghamshire 128 (Barnard 4-26, Pennington 4-31) and 183 (Hameed 58; Waite 3-34, Gibbon 3-44) by an innings and 79 runs To arrive at New Road on the morning after the drama we savoured on Wednesday is a little like volunteering to wash up after a wonderful party. Although there’ll be some good food left and the odd bottle of…
South Africa face a dilemma as they head to India for a white-ball tour that comprises three T20Is and three ODIs. With the T20 World Cup barely a month away, most teams have their focus set on the marquee tournament. But South Africa don’t quite have that liberty. They are currently in 11th place on the ODI Super League points table, with just four wins from 13 matches. They also…
India A 170 for 3 (Patidar 45*, Gaikwad 41, Rippon 1-28) beat New Zealand A 167 (Rippon 61, Thakur 4-32, Sen 3-30) by seven wickets Pace bowlers Shardul Thakur and Kuldeep Sen bowled New Zealand out for a paltry 167, sharing seven wickets between them, as India A posted a comfortable seven-wicket victory in the first of the three one-dayers at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium on Thursday to take the…
Big picture At this point in time, the Indian cricket team’s situation mirrors life: no sooner have you overcome a challenge than the next one crops up. After India successfully sorted out their batting, with their top order now looking for boundaries straightaway, they would have thought it was time to breathe easy. But lately, their death bowling has started giving them headaches. Since January 2022, 33 bowlers have bowled…