Royal Challengers Bangalore 189 for 9 (Maxwell 77, du Plessis 62, Boult 2-41, Sandeep 2-49) beat Rajasthan Royals 182 for 6 (Padikkal 52, Jaiswal 47, Jurel 34*, Harshal 3-32) by seven runs Royal Challengers Bangalore overcame a 50-for-7 collapse at the end of their innings and defended a total for the third time in IPL 2023 to go level on points with table leaders Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants….
Big picture: SRH, Capitals search for a quick fix to batting woes Two teams right at the bottom of the points table will jostle in a bid to get some momentum into their IPL 2023 campaign. It’s been a difficult season for both Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals. Sunrisers are coming into this game on the back of two losses. Capitals snapped their five-game losing streak last time around, with…
In the first Test, Ireland’s spinners managed three wickets in 85.3 overs. By comparison, Sri Lanka’s spinners claimed 15 wickets in 85.4 overs. This was the biggest difference between the sides, and it is this chasm that Ireland’s spin-bowling coach Nathan Hauritz is charged with closing, ahead of the second Test. Being more consistent with tighter lines and fuller lengths was one route to improvement, Hauritz said. But so was…
Big picture: Ireland bank on toss to bat long Aside from a brief period at the end of day one, when Sri Lanka lost three top-order wickets for 28 runs, and a couple of half-century stands in their own innings, Ireland were outplayed in pretty much every passage of play you could bring to mind in the first innings of the first Test. It happens. Ireland are playing their first…
Nottinghamshire 364 and 158 for 6 (Clarke 52, Bamber 2-26) lead Middlesex 274 (Stoneman 76, Higgins 53, Broad 4-58) by 248 runs Stuart Broad, bopping around Lord’s in Nottinghamshire stash. Stuart Broad posting candid shots of a ground he’s playing at for the 29th time in his career to his Instagram story. Stuart Broad, commuting in from Wimbledon, on the underground for the first two days of this fixture with…
Arshdeep Singh is among the death bowling elite in short-form cricket. Since 2022, only four men have delivered at least 60 overs in the last four of a T20 game and taken a minimum of 30 wickets. He’s one of them and he has the best average and the best economy rate of the lot. But some of that good work was spoiled by his tendency to overstep. He’s bowled…
Yorkshire 298 (Carson 5-79) and 138 for 3 (Lyth 69*, Hope 53*) need a further 63 to beat Sussex 361 and 137 (Bess 3-36) One bad session. It’s the sort of thing good teams guard against – and that Sussex have been looking to eradicate from their cricket after three dispiriting red-ball campaigns. The home side controlled this contest for the first two days but suffered a disastrous second-innings collapse…
Punjab Kings 214 for 8 (Curran 55, Bhatia 41, Chawla 2-15) beat Mumbai Indians 210 for 6 (Green 67, Suryakumar 57, Arshdeep 4-29) by 13 runs Punjab Kings’ innings was going nowhere. After 14 overs, they were 105 for 4 with Harpreet Singh Bhatia batting on 15 off 16 and Sam Curran on 8 off 12. But in the next six overs, they ransacked 109. Bhatia ended with 41 off…
Kent 342 for 7 (Crawley 170) trail Essex 451 for 5 dec ( Browne 159, Westley 148) by 109 runs A regal 170 from Zak Crawley helped Kent to 342 for seven on day three of their LV= Insurance County Championship game with Essex at Canterbury, a deficit of 109. The England man made his highest ever score for Kent, producing an innings of style and brutality as the hosts…
Northern Diamonds 290 for 8 (Winfield-Hill 75, Heath 71, Tryon 63) beat Western Storm 185 (Levick 4-36) by 105 runs Northern Diamonds began their defence of the Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy with an emphatic 105-run victory against Western Storm at Headingley. Half-centuries from Lauren Winfield-Hill (75), Bess Heath (71) and South African debutant Chloe Tryon (63) took Diamonds to a commanding total of 290 for eight off a rain-reduced 37…