The BBL and WBBL will finally have a Decision Review System in place for the coming season while the Bash Boost point and X-Factor have been scrapped with the Power Surge set to come into the WBBL for the first time. Cricket Australia announced a raft of changes to the BBL and WBBL competitions on Thursday with an innings clock also to be introduced for the BBL only, with teams…
Middlesex509 (Eskinazi 115, Malan 93, Simpson 92, Roland-Jones 55*) lead Worcestershire 225 (Boyce 107) by 284 runs From one perspective this day hinged on the skilful leg-glance played by Stevie Eskinazi off Ed Barnard a few seconds before four o’clock on the sort of sunlit afternoon that makes one smile in fond regret that the season is ending. Yet the emotions expressed by the gaggles of Middlesex supporters around New…
Sussex 258 (Haines 108*, Tear 56) and 312 for 0 (Orr 185*, Haines 121*) lead Glamorgan 533 for 9 dec (Cooke 141, Gill 119, Lloyd 56, Patel 51*) by 37 runs Captain Tom Haines completed two unbeaten hundreds in the same day and opening partner Ali Orr thrashed a magnificent 185 not out to transform Sussex’s fortunes and end Glamorgan’s promotion hopes in the LV= County Championship. Haines, who had…
Gloucestershire 190 (Bracey 71, Fisher 4-45) & 204 for 6 (Taylor 67*, Price 54*) and 233 (O Price 68, Taylor 67) beat Yorkshire 183 (Kohler-Cadmore 46, Lyth 44, Gohar 5-40) and 222 (Bess 79*, Payne 4-51, Gohar 4-69) beat by 18 runs The future has been confirmed: Shan Masood, the Pakistan batter shrewdly pilfered from Derbyshire, will captain Yorkshire in all formats in 2023. Masood brings hopes of a new…
Warwickshire 272 for 4 dec (Yates 104, Sibley 54, Holland 3-85) and 62 for 2 (Sibley 29*, Davies 16*) lead Hampshire 311 (Vince 98, Barker 76, Norwell 4-38) by 23 runs Warwickshire are still alive. With a day to go in the 2022 season, the defending County Champions are hanging on to their Division One status. Though it may be by a thread, it is at least *their* thread. Because…
Durham 207 (Maddinson 40, Potts 40) and 14 for 2 (Fletcher 1-4, Broad 1-10) need 563 runs to beat Nottinghamshire 662 for 5 dec (Montgomery 178, James 164*, Mullaney 136, Hameed 115) and 121 for 2 dec (Hameed 49*, Clarke 48*) Nottinghamshire secured promotion to Division One of the LV= Insurance County Championship and are effectively Division Two champions already, although their supporters will have to wait until the final…
Lancashire 512 (Jennings 199, Balderson 97, Croft 86, Moriarty 5-163) beat Surrey 209 (Steel 47, Hartley 3-28, Williams 3-41) and 173 (Burns 61, Hartley 5-52) by an innings and 130 runs Lancashire wrapped up an impressive victory over County Champions Surrey inside three days as they signed off the season with a win by an innings and 130 runs. Left-arm slow bowler Tom Hartley did the damage with the ball,…
Essex 263 (Allison 69*, Westley 58, Browne 49, Taylor 4-59) and 63 for 5 (Critchley 14*, Pepper 7*, White 2-12, Sanderson 2-22) lead Northamptonshire 163 (Young 37, Allison 5-32) by 163 runs Ben Sanderson and Jack White removed Essex’s top order to bowl their side back into contention at the end of the third day of this LV= County Championship clash at Wantage Road. Sanderson struck twice early in Essex’s…
Leicestershire 249 (Scriven 53, Conners 5-51) and 131 for 2 (Evans 59*) trail Derbyshire 568 for 9 dec (Godleman 158, Reece 116, Madsen 92, Ahmed 5-114) by 188 runs Sam Evans held up Derbyshire’s victory charge on the third day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match against Leicestershire at Derby. The opener stood firm to give his side a chance of saving the game after Derbyshire declared on 568 for…
The ICC has invited bids for media rights to global cricketing events over the next four (or eight) years for the Australian, US, Caribbean and Canadian markets. This is the second phase in the ICC’s media rights process, after sealing a deal for the Indian market last month for an undisclosed sum. That winning bid, thought to be in the region of just over US$ 3 billion, came from Disney…