Surrey 292 for 6 (Pope 136, Clark 55, Patterson 4-52) vs Yorkshire To celebrate the 90th birthday of Surrey legend Micky Stewart, the Kia Oval changed its name to The Micky Stewart Oval for this penultimate fixture of the County Championship season against Yorkshire. On Day one, however, Ollie Pope reminded everyone that this was his house. For the time being at least. Just as cricketers pass through the game,…
Middlesex 293 for 8 (Simpson 92, Eskinazi 64, Higgins 53) vs Leicestershire Half-centuries from John Simpson, Steve Eskinazi and Ryan Higgins combined to give Middlesex what they will regard as a satisfactory opening day’s work as they seek to clinch promotion from Division Two of the LV= Insurance County Championship with two matches left. Middlesex, who started the penultimate round on 188 points – 27 behind leaders Nottinghamshire but 12…
Warwickshire 255 for 8 (Sibley 105*, Briggs 65, Gohar 4-59) vs Gloucestershire Dom Sibley could have been a guardsman at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth. He has that sense of duty about him. He is an upright sort who knows how to stand perfectly still. He can march in time as the pitch instructs him, never too slowly, never too fast. Indomitable, someone called him, and he was precisely that….
Kent 165 (Compton 63, Abbott 4-46, Abbas 3-29, Barker 3-30) and 20 for 3 lead Hampshire 57 (Quinn 6-23) by 128 runs Hampshire were skittled for 57 in 87 minutes by Kent in a serious dent to their hopes of winning the LV= Insurance County Championship title for the first time since 1973. Matt Quinn claimed six for 23 to rout Hampshire for the lowest first-class score at the Ageas…
Hosts and defending champions Bangladesh will kick off the 2022 Women’s T20 Asia Cup against Thailand on October 1, with India taking on Sri Lanka in the second match of the day, in Sylhet on October 1, Jay Shah, the president of ACC, announced on Twitter on Tuesday. The semi-finals will be played on October 13, with the title clash scheduled for October 15. Pakistan will open their campaign against…
Somerset 271 for 4 (Abell 111, Bartlett 62) vs Northamptonshire Tom Abell‘s fourth century of the season led a solid Somerset batting display against Northamptonshire at Taunton, on the day his club paid tribute to one of their most prolific ever run-scorers. The lunch interval on the opening day of the LV= Insurance County Championship game saw the unveiling of the James Hildreth Stand by the player himself, who recently…
Lancashire 131 (Harmer 5-41) and 25 for 6 (Snater 4-6) lead Essex 107 (Cook 40, Bailey 5-36) by 49 runs Simon Harmer‘s prodigal return from international duty with South Africa was undone by some decidedly shoddy batting and devastating bowling on a day of utter carnage when 26 wickets fell on a controversial pitch at Chelmsford. The off-spinner, who had bowled just 23 overs in two months since his last…
Durham 54 for 1 trail Sussex 162 (Orr 36, Coughlin 3-33, Potts 3-53) by 108 runs Durham made the most of bowling friendly conditions at Seat Unique Riverside on Day 1 of the LV Insurance County Championship as they bowled Sussex out for just 162.. After winning the toss and asking the visitors to bat, Matthew Potts and Ben Raine bowled a lengthy opening spell interspersed with a rain delay…
Stopping India’s rampant top-order – especially Smriti Mandhana – is England’s target if they are to keep their ODI series alive and prevent the final match at Lord’s from becoming a dead rubber. Mandhana produced a match-defining knock of 91 as India overhauled a target of 228 with seven wickets and 5.4 overs to spare at Hove on Sunday, to go 1-0 up in the ODI leg of their tour….
Toss England chose to bowl vs Pakistan England won the toss and chose to bowl in the opening match of seven T20Is against Pakistan, on their return to the country for the first time since 2005. Moeen Ali called correctly, captaining the side in the land of his grandfather with Jos Buttler missing due to a calf injury. England handed a debut to Luke Wood, the Lancashire left-arm seamer, as…