Month: April 2023

Lancashire 207 and 167 for 4 (Jennings 80*, Bell 30*) lead Essex 219 (Critchley 78, Anderson 4-70) by 155 runs Keaton Jennings held together Lancashire’s second innings with a patient half-century on a truncated day’s cricket at Chelmsford. The Lancashire captain batted throughout the 36 overs possible before rain returned at tea leading to a premature end to the day. By that time Jennings, the leading LV= Insurance County Championship…

Toss Pakistan chose to bat vs New Zealand Pakistan have won the toss and will bat first for the second game running. After cruising past New Zealand in the first game defending a total, Babar Azam saw no need to change a winning formula; Pakistan are unchanged. New Zealand make two alterations to the unit that lost by 88 runs on Friday, both in the bowling department. Spinning allrounder Cole…

Big Picture – Knight Riders seek quick fixes Forty eight hours after playing at home against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Kolkata Knight Riders play an away match, which happens to be an afternoon game. Mumbai Indians, their opponents, on the other hand, will start the home contest after a five-day break. Knight Riders are among three teams – along with Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings – who will play back-to-back matches this…

Big Picture – Rematch of the IPL 2022 final Gujarat Giants and Rajasthan Royals meet for the first time this season, following wins that should’ve been more clinical than they were. Rahul Tewatia’s scoop off Sam Curran gave a nervy Titans points against Punjab Kings while Sandeep Sharma held his nerve to clinch victory against MS Dhoni and Chennai Super Kings. They’d both want to be more ruthless on Sunday….

Royal Challengers Bangalore 174 for 6 (Kohli 50, Marsh 2-18, Kuldeep 2-23) beat Delhi Capitals 151 for 9 (Pandey 50, Vyshak 3-20, Siraj 2-23) by 23 runs Royal Challengers Bangalore spent a large part of this game under the pump. Frustratingly, every time they thought they got ahead, like when Virat Kohli reached a 33-ball fifty, or when Glenn Maxwell was pummelling the spinners on a spin-friendly pitch, a wicket…

Tim David and Cameron Green posed for a photo under the floodlights at Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla on Monday night after dragging Mumbai Indians over the line to secure their first win of IPL 2023. David posted it on Instagram with a self-effacing caption: “If you need 5 off 6, we are your men.” It was not a pretty finish, but their unbeaten fifth-wicket partnership worth 30 in 3.1 overs…

The surgery was successful and Bumrah was “pain-free”, according to a media statement from the BCCI. The plan is to get him fully fit for the home ODI World Cup, which is likely to start on October 5. Bumrah has not featured in any cricket since late September last year, when he pulled out of the home white-ball series against South Africa – the reason, reportedly, was a stress reaction…

Gloucestershire’s LV= County Championship Second Division match against Yorkshire at Bristol has been abandoned without a ball bowled. Umpires Billy Taylor and Paul Pollard made the decision after inspecting the outfield on arrival at the Seat Unique Stadium ahead of what would have been day three of the four-day fixture. More heavy rain overnight had fallen on the already saturated ground and it was so wet in some areas that…

Big picture: Mirpur Test has prepared Ireland for SL tour If you’re Ireland, Test matches are quite like buses, you wait ages for one and then suddenly here come three to take you on a tour of the subcontinent. Okay, maybe that’s not quite the analogy, but the fact remains that having played their first three Tests in 2018 and 2019, they’re now set to double that tally in the…

Surrey 153 for 4 (Pope 48*, Abbas 2-39) trail Hampshire 254 (Brown 95, Lawes 4-58) by 101 runs If you’re plugged into the internet, you have probably already come across this story told by Cameron Ponsonby on the latest edition of the Wisden Cricket Podcast. If not, here we go. Last weekend, Manchester City were playing away to Southampton in the Premier League. As many teams do when preparing for…