Big picture: Can KKR turn their season around? After starting their season with two wins in three games, Kolkata Knight Riders’ IPL 2023 has nosedived as they return home on the back of three losses on the bounce. It doesn’t help then, that they next face Chennai Super Kings, who have had the wood over them in the past – they have won 17 of the 26 meetings between them…
Big picture: Chahal returns to Chinnaswamy Yuzvendra Chahal spent eight seasons playing his home games in Bengaluru, but on Sunday, he will walk out of the away dressing room at the Chinnaswamy Stadium for the first time in his IPL career. Royal Challengers Bangalore opted against offering Chahal an extension ahead of the 2022 mega auction, instead spending INR 10.75 crore to secure the services of Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga….
Northamptonshire 95 for 5 (Cobb 28*, McManus 8*) trail Hampshire 482 for 8 dec (Vince 186, Gubbins 125, Brown 55) by 387 runs Heavy overnight rain with a forecast of more to come, a soggy outfield and a chill easterly wind. It all contributed to a thin crowd at Wantage Road. Perhaps Northants loyalists also had an inkling about what lay in store because, if the weather holds, Hampshire are…
Yorkshire 216 for 7 (Bean 49, Carson 3-34) trail Sussex 361 (Alsop 95, Carter 64, Coad 5-54) by 145 runs In the commentary box during the afternoon session on day two of this match in Hove, discussion turned to popular music. Matthew Revis, an unused member of the Yorkshire squad taking a turn on the livestream, was asked about his preferences, and he put forward Pulp as his favourite band…
MS Dhoni is 41 years old and has been part of 240 IPL games, but he came into this season after close to a year-long gap following last year’s edition. He knows he’s at the twilight of his career, but believes that it will not stop him from cherishing every moment of a tournament he has won four times with Chennai Super Kings. But he put a positive spin on…
Middlesex 111 for 2 (Stoneman 60*, Broad 1-22) trail Nottinghamshire 364 (Duckett 177, Hameed 55, Bamber 4-89) by 253 runs Play only began at 2:15pm as the rain threatened to wash away any momentum in this fixture. Yet somehow, not only did 60.4 overs get sent down, mostly in bright sunshine, but the game has moved along at pace. And perhaps most notable of all, Middlesex walked off for the…
Lancashire 302 for 1 trail (Jennings 124*, Wells 82, Bohannon 73*) trail Somerset 441 (Abell 151, Rew 117, Anderson 5-76) by 139 runs You cannot tell quite how pancake-flat a pitch is until you have seen both sides try to fill their boots on it. The truth of this apophthegm was made very plain during the final two sessions of this day’s cricket when Lancashire’s batters, having seen Somerset compile…
Chennai Super Kings 138 for 3 (Conway 77, Gaikwad 35, Markande 2-23) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 134 for 7 (Abhishek 34, Jadeja 3-22, Akash 1-17) by seven wickets Devon Conway‘s third half-century in a row helped Chennai Super Kings chip away at the target of 135 against Sunrisers Hyderabad on a slow, gripping pitch at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. Earlier, Ravindra Jadeja grabbed three wickets – and combined with Maheesh Theekshana…
Essex 289 for 1 (Westley 138*, Browne 105*) vs Kent Tom Westley and Nick Browne both hit centuries as Essex advanced to 289 for one on day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship game with Kent at Canterbury. Westley scored a swashbuckling, unbeaten 138, which contrasted with Browne’s more measured 105 not out, but for the second day running conditions halted Essex’s progress, with just 32 overs possible. Kent’s…
The 2023 edition of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy gets underway on Saturday with more players on professional contracts than ever before. Here, we take a look at some names to keep an eye on, key dates and what’s been happening in the off-season. Diary dates April 22: Season starts with all eight teams in action. Sunrisers, winless over the three-year history of the competition, take on two-time champions Southern…