Leicestershire 249 (Scriven 53, Conners 5-51) and 405 for 7 (Ahmed 122, Evans 64, Hill 60) trail Derbyshire 568 for 9 dec (Godleman 158, Reece 116, Madsen 92, Ahmed 5-114) by 188 runs Rehan Ahmed scored a superb maiden century to save Leicestershire from defeat in the LV=Insurance County Championship match against Derbyshire at Derby. The England Under-19 allrounder decorated the last day of the season at the Incora County…
Essex 263 (Allison 69*, Westley 58, Browne 49, Taylor 4-59) and 110 (Critchley 20, White 6-38) beat Northamptonshire 163 (Young 37, Allison 5-32) and 163 (Berg 39, Harmer 6-49) by 47 runs Simon Harmer claimed six wickets for 49 to spin Essex to a 47-run victory over Northamptonshire at Wantage Road and finish as leading wicket taker in this year’s LV= County Championship Division One. Harmer extracted prodigious turn to…
Big picture The likes of Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Nicholas Pooran and Dwayne Bravo will not feature in the CPL 2022 final. The star-studded Trinbago Knight Riders and St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, the CPL 2021 champions and the inaugural 6ixty winners, were the first two teams to be knocked out this year. Who woulda thunk it? Kyle Mayers‘ Barbados Royals and Rovman Powell‘s Jamaica Tallawahs are the…
Big picture “Please, sir, I want some more.” Perhaps few people thought we’d still have a healthy appetite after five matches of the series – the first of this length between two Full Members – but here we are, holding out our bowl for another series of what has been a rip-roaring contest. Tall run chases, low-scoring scraps, last-over finishes, we’ve pretty much had the lot, with Pakistan wrestling their…
Pakistan fast bowler Naseem Shah has tested positive for Covid-19, one day after it was announced he had contracted pneumonia. He has, however, been released from hospital, and the PCB said he was “feeling better.” Naseem is the second person in the Pakistan camp during the current series against England to have contracted Covid-19, a week after an unnamed member of the Pakistan support staff tested positive. On that occasion,…
Middlesex509 (Eskinazi 115, Malan 93, Simpson 92, Roland-Jones 55*) lead Worcestershire 225 (Boyce 107) by 284 runs Middlesex’s promotion to Division One of the LV=Insurance County Championship was confirmed after rain washed out the final day of the encounter with Worcestershire at New Road. They had effectively made sure of finishing in the top two after accruing a maximum haul of five batting points on the third day. Today’s blank…
Nottinghamshire 662 for 5 dec and 121 for 2 dec (Hameed 49*) beat Durham 207 (Maddinson 40, Potts 40, Paterson 3-50) and 114 (Broad 3-36, Patterson-White 3-41) by 462 runs Nottinghamshire needed seven minutes over two hours to take the seven Durham wickets they needed to be confirmed as Division Two champions on the final day of the LV= Insurance County Championship season at Trent Bridge. Durham, for whom David…
In what will be a huge blow for India, Jasprit Bumrah could be ruled out of the T20 World Cup next month because of a back injury. Bumrah travelled to Bengaluru on Wednesday to undergo scans on his back and the results are awaited. PTI, however, reported that the fast bowler was out of contention for the World Cup, quoting a BCCI official who said Bumrah could be out of…
West Indies Women 115 (Alleyne 49, A Kerr 3-16, Jonas 2-13, Devine 2-15) beat New Zealand Women 114 for 9 (Rowe 27*, Henry 3-26, Fletcher 2-18) by one run A spirited bowling show helped West Indies edge New Zealand out by a run in the first of five T20Is in North Sound. In a low-scoring match, it was Chinelle Henry‘s new-ball spell proved decisive as the hosts staved off the…
Melbourne Renegades have made a shock signing by adding uncapped Melbourne-based Sri Lanka legspinner Ruwantha Kellapotha to their BBL squad as an overseas replacement player for the upcoming season. Kellapotha, 31, played 20 first-class matches and 12 List A matches in Sri Lanka between 2010 and 2013 before moving to Australia to live. He played eight seasons in the lower-tier Dandenong District Cricket Association in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs representing four…