Nat Sciver has withdrawn from England’s upcoming T20I and ODI series against India to focus on her mental health and wellbeing. The ECB announced late on Thursday that allrounder Sciver, who was standing in as captain for Heather Knight as she recovers from hip surgery, had left the team’s camp in Durham to return home. Amy Jones was appointed captain for the three-match T20I series, starting in Durham on Saturday,…
Lancashire 276 (Jennings 119, Wells 84; Hill 6-26) and 280 for 5 decl. (Wells 124, Jennings 68; Bess 3-84) drew with Yorkshire 255 (Kohler-Cadmore 51; Bailey 4-56; Parkinson 3-52, Williams 3-64) and 102 for 3 The 277th Roses match ended at Emirates Old Trafford this evening when rain interrupted Yorkshire’s studious non-pursuit of 302 in 84 overs to beat Lancashire. Rarely can a county have shown so little interest in…
Hampshire 400 for 9 dec (Donald 94, Organ 71, Abbott 57) beat Northamptonshire 175 (Procter 40, Abbott 4-52, Barker 3-41) and 221 (Gay 74, Abbas 4-32) by an innings and four runs Keith Barker and Mohammad Abbas started for Hampshire, before James Fuller struck in sensational circumstances in the game’s dying moments, to send his side top of LV= Insurance Division One, beating the rain and thrashing Northamptonshire by an…
Virat Kohli had gone 1021 days without reaching triple digits for India. After finally breaking that jinx, against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup, he spoke about what it meant to him, and reiterated how taking a break from the game and having a lot of support from his family helped him along. Here’s what he said at a mid-innings interview, having notched up India’s highest score in T20Is and lifted…
England Women will approach their upcoming series against India as a “fresh start” following the disappointment of their failed home Commonwealth Games campaign last month. Alice Capsey, the talented allrounder who turned 18 less than a week after India knocked the hosts out of gold-medal contention in Birmingham, is among a clutch of youngsters England are backing to help their side overcome the deflation of first being relegated to the…
New ECB chair Richard Thompson has described the current County schedule as “the worst game of Jenga ever”, and has promised to ensure the County Championship holds its own in the jostle with three other formats in the English season. Thompson, formerly chair at Surrey, began a five-year term in his role at the start of August. The first item in his inbox, as he put it in an introductory…
Big Picture Both economies are on the verge of collapse – Sri Lanka’s, it might be argued, is collapsing already; both nations are straining under outsized external debt; and both are negotiating with the IMF for relief. It is the first of two Pakistan vs Sri Lanka matches to finish the Asia Cup off. Welcome to the first Debt Trap Derby. On their way here, both teams have done a…
Gloucestershire 343 and 278 for 7 dec (Charlesworth 64, O. Price 53, Hammond 53) drew Somerset 248 (Imam-ul-Haq 90, Rew 44*, T. Price 5-75) and 11 for 0 Gloucestershire’s bid for a first LV= Insurance County Championship win of the season was thwarted by the weather on the final day of the match with Somerset at Taunton. The visitors began the day by extending their second innings total from an…
Adam Zampa shifted all the praise onto Australia’s pace bowlers for the pressure they applied in the second ODI, labelling his delivery to remove Kane Williamson “c***”, with the New Zealand captain left to lament his team’s “soft” cricket as they saw another strong position slip away. Australia were 117 for 8 before the last two wickets added 78, with Zampa playing an important role. New Zealand’s top order was…
Toss Afghanistan opt to bowl v India Already out of the tournament, India were handed another challenge as Afghanistan asked them to bat first after winning the toss. In Dubai, no full member has lost a match while chasing since the start of 2020. Rohit Sharma rested himself, handing the reins of the team to KL Rahul for this match, who said they wanted to keep everyone fresh with an…