Essex 225 and 162 for 5 (Snater 65*, Patterson 5-46) beat Yorkshire 134 and 252 (Coad 69, Bean 53, Porter 4-64) by one wicket Essex made heavy weather of chasing 162 either side of tea but Shane Snater’s aggressive unbeaten 65 secured a thrilling one-wicket LV= Insurance County Championship win over Yorkshire inside three days at Headingley. Essex took eight wickets during the first half of the day to bowl…
Somerset 219 and 277 for 4 (Bartlett 91*, Abell 87, Goldsworthy 44*) lead Warwickshire 196 by 300 runs Somerset plodded their way into total control against Warwickshire on the third day of their LV=Insurance County Championship Division One relegation battle at Edgbaston. The visitors closed the third day on 277 for 4 – 300 ahead – to virtually insure themselves against defeat heading into the last day of this crucial…
It has been four years since Ollie Pope made his Test debut as a No.6 doing an impression of a No.4. As the 2022 summer comes to an end, he looks settled in his new dwellings at No.3. On the face of it, a season average of 38.00 might seem modest. It is, however, the highest average the 24-year-old has managed in an English summer, and there are a few…
West Indies have recalled Evin Lewis to their squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. Lewis last played international cricket at last year’s T20 World Cup in the UAE, and had since missed out on West Indies’ squads for fitness reasons. There is no room in the squad for the allrounder Andre Russell, who, like Lewis, last featured for West Indies during last year’s T20 World Cup. Fabian…
England will arrive in Karachi early on Thursday morning for their first tour of Pakistan in 17 years, a historic visit that will see them play seven T20 internationals while under presidential-level security conditions. The length of their absence is illustrated by the fact that their 20-man squad had made a single professional appearance between them when England played their last international in this country back in 2005: Moeen Ali,…
India batter Robin Uthappa has retired from all forms of international and Indian cricket, including the IPL, to play overseas T20 leagues. Uthappa has obtained a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from Kerala, the last state he played for in domestic cricket, and will be free to take up overseas assignments as new T20 leagues come up in South Africa and the UAE early next year. Uthappa made his international debut…
The Supreme Court has expressed its intention to modify its 2018 judgement and relax the cooling-off period norm in the BCCI constitution, which will allow the current set of office bearers led by board president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to be in office until 2025. At a hearing on Wednesday, the two-judge bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli said they would “contemplate” tweaking the existing rule…
Bangladesh’s technical consultant Sridharan Sriram believes ‘impact’ in T20 cricket trumps everything else. Even performance. In his first press conference in Dhaka, Sriram – essentially brought on board for the T20I side – said that he believes a good performance can even be detrimental to a side, unless it has a direct influence on the outcome of a T20 game. “I am looking for impact, not performance,” Sriram said, just…
Michael Hussey and David Saker have been added to England’s men coaching set-up for the T20 World Cup in Australia next month. Hussey, the former Australia international who currently works as batting coach for Chennai Super Kings, and fellow Australian Saker, who was England’s Test bowling coach from 2010 to 2015, have been enlisted by Matthew Mott, England’s white-ball head coach, to add home-grown insight to the squad’s preparations ahead…
On the bowlers’ table, Hasaranga has moved up three places to sixth after finishing as the second-highest wicket-taker, behind Bhuvneshwar, in Sri Lanka’s sixth Asia Cup triumph. Hasaranga, who was named Player of the Tournament, picked up nine wickets at an economy rate of 7.39. He also made important contributions with the bat, including a 21-ball 36 in the final, which helped Sri Lanka get to a strong total, which…