Month: September 2022

Shreyas Iyer, a travelling reserve for India for the upcoming men’s T20 World Cup in Australia, has been drafted in as a replacement for the injured Deepak Hooda for the three-T20I series against South Africa starting later today in Thiruvananthapuram. Related India vs SA T20Is: Hooda injured, Shami still Covid-positive Being left-handers’ kryptonite could see Ashwin edge Axar Hardik Pandya and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are also out of the series, with…

The first reaction of most Australian cricket fans to the news that Michael Hogan retires this week is likely to be, ‘I didn’t know he was still playing’, but half a world away a very good career is finally coming to a close. Hogan last played in Australia in 2016, seven years after he made an improbable debut for Western Australia at the age of 28 – improbable because he…

Cameron Green has been retained in Australia’s T20 squad for the two matches against West Indies in Queensland next week as a “cautious” approach is taken with various injuries around the squad. However, Mitchell Marsh (ankle), Marcus Stoinis (side) and Mitchell Starc (knee) all return for the start of Australia’s final stretch into the T20 World Cup having sat out the trip to India along with David Warner who was…

Middlesex 146 for 2 (Malan 68*, Holden 35*) trail Worcestershire 225 (Roland-Jones 4-50, Higgins 3-52 ) by 79 runs In simple truth this was a scrappy, stop-start, on-off mess of a day at New Road. There were at least three interruptions – forgive me, after a while they merge together – and on one occasion umpires Nick Cook and Rob Bailey decided to take the players off, only to keep…

Bangladesh 169 for 5 (Miraz 46, Mosaddek 27, Aayan 2-33) beat UAE 137 for 5 (Rizwan 51*, Hameed 42, Mosaddek 2-8) by 32 runs Bangladesh predictably claimed the hastily arranged two-match T20I series against the UAE, beating the home side by 32 runs in the second game in Dubai. The visitors would be relieved with the two wins under their belt in a season of slim pickings, but UAE, too,…

Durham 53 for 2 (Borthwick 12*, Drissell 9*) trial Nottinghamshire 662 for 5 dec (Montgomery 178, James 164*, Mullaney 136, Hameed 115) by 609 runs Nottinghamshire added a new line in their county record books as they put one hand on the Division Two trophy by racking up a massive 662 for 5 declared against Durham on day two of the final match of their LV= Insurance County Championship season….

Gloucestershire 190 (Bracey 71, Fisher 4-45) & 204 for 6 (Taylor 67*, Price 54*) lead Yorkshire 183 (Kohler-Cadmore 46, Lyth 44, Gohar 5-40) by 211 runs Relegation is what many critics wished upon Yorkshire as the Azeem Rafiq racism allegations were at their height a year ago. That sanction never came from the ECB, or at least hasn’t yet, so it would at least quell the argument if they went…

Surrey 123 for 5 (Steel 29*, Clark 4*, Bailey 2-30, Williams 2-32) trail Lancashire 512 (Jennings 199, Balderson 97, Croft 86, Moriarty 5-163) by 389 runs Keaton Jennings and George Balderson both narrowly missed out on personal landmarks but Lancashire are sitting pretty at the end of a rain-effected day two of this final match of the County Championship against title winners Surrey. Jennings fell agonisingly short of double century…

Hampshire 4 for 0 trail Warwickshire 272 for 4 dec (Yates 104, Sibley 54, Holland 3-85) by 268 runs Rob Yates completed his seventh first-class century but Warwickshire and Hampshire were again kept largely inactive on the second day of their crucial LV=Insurance County Championship tussle at Edgbaston. It was a deeply frustrating day for Warwickshire, who must win to have any chance of avoiding relegation, and equally so for…

Sussex 86 for 1 (Orr 45) trail Glamorgan 533 for 9 dec (Cooke 141, Gill 119, Lloyd 56, Patel 51*) by 447 runs Chris Cooke and Shubman Gill both made impressive hundreds as Glamorgan put themselves into a strong position in their must-win game against Sussex. Gill scored 119 – his first LV= County Championship hundred – and Cooke 141 as they piled up 533 for eight declared on the…