Glamorgan 404 (Root 117*, T Price 4-56) and 110 for 3 (Root 39*, Byrom 36*) drew with Gloucestershire 165 (Harris 59, van der Gugten 5-26) and 569 for 7 dec (Harris 148, van Buuren 110*, Dent 78, Hammond 58, Price 55*) A Graeme van Buuren hundred led a brilliant Gloucestershire comeback in their LV= Insurance County Championship match against Glamorgan in Cardiff to secure a very creditable draw. Having trailed…
Somerset 284 (Gregory 65, Barnard 3-54, Hannon-Dalby 3-76) and 180 for 6 (Lammonby 66*, Hannon-Dalby 3-21) drew with Warwickshire 392 (Hain 119, Davies 118) Warwickshire’s seamers gave Somerset a final day scare before the LV= County Championship match at Taunton ended in a predictable draw. Having extended their first-innings score from an overnight 305 for to 392 all out in reply to 284, Sam Hain leading the way with a…
Essex 266 (Lawrence 105, Roland-Jones 7-61) and 211 (Critchley 53, Murtagh 4-44) beat Middlesex 170 (Higgins 70, Simpson 63, Porter 6-35) and 210 (Hollman 63*, S Cook 3-31, Porter 3-34) by 97 runs As far as statements of intent go, Essex’s 97-run victory over Middlesex in the first match of the 2023 season is loud and clear. The County Champions of 2017 and 2019 – and inaugural winners of the…
Kolkata Knight Riders 207 for 7 (Venkatesh 83, Rinku 48*, Rana 45, Rashid 3-37, Joseph 2-28) beat Gujarat Titans 204 for 4 (Vijay 63*, Sai Sudharsan 53, Narine 3-33) by three wickets This is what they mean when they say truth is stranger than fiction. Chasing 205, Kolkata Knight Riders’ Impact Player Venkatesh Iyer and their captain Nitish Rana had kept them in the game by adding 100 runs 9.1…
Kent 222 (Crawley 91, Tremain 5-44, White 4-57) and 227 for 3 (Compton 114*, Leaning 67*) beat Northamptonshire 117 (Vasconcelos 39, Quinn 4-25, Stewart 3-6) and 331 (Keogh 116, Berg 56, Azad 51, Evison 4-62) by seven wickets Ben Compton‘s unbeaten 114 helped Kent to a seven-wicket victory over Northamptonshire in the LV= Insurance County Championship at Canterbury. Compton produced a crucial stand of 167 with Jack Leaning, who made…
Big Picture: The thing with RCB… Virat Kohli chose a good moment – their homecoming – to highlight that Royal Challengers Bangalore are part of IPL royalty. He said, outside of Chennai Super Kings (11) and Mumbai Indians (9), they are the team that has made it to the playoffs the most times (8). But the wider IPL fraternity – and indeed some of Royal Challengers’ fans – won’t find…
Worcestershire 473 (Waite 109*, D’Oliveira 89, Chappell 5-69) and 193 for 2 (Libby 104*, Azhar 62) beat Derbyshire 321 (Madsen 87, Godleman 70, Waite 4-50) and 343 (du Plooy 95, Godleman 86, Haider 65) by eight wickets Jake Libby and Azhar Ali combined for the second year running at Derbyshire to give Worcestershire a winning start to the season in the LV=Insurance County Championship. The pair shared a century stand…
“To be honest I was not thinking much. Just reacting to every ball,” Rinku said at the post-match presentation. “I never thought I would hit five sixes. I just kept hitting. I had the belief. And we won the match.” Rinku finished unbeaten on 48 off 21 deliveries, with 40 of those runs coming off the last seven balls he faced. Related Rinku Singh’s six romance leads greatest last-over heist…
In one of the most remarkable finishes to any T20 game, Kolkata Knight Riders snatched victory from Gujarat Titans’ grasp in Ahmedabad, where the final over began with the visitors 29 away from their target of 205. No team had ever chased down more than 23 runs in the final over to win an IPL game before, and Knight Riders began this 20th over with a win probability of 1.29%,…
The Bangladesh selectors have called up Mrittunjoy Chowdhury as the injured Taskin Ahmed‘s replacement in the 14-member squad for the three-match ODI series against Ireland in Chelmsford next month. Taskin’s side strain, that kept him out of the Dhaka Test – also against Ireland – this week, has sidelined him for four weeks. Mrittunjoy is a left-arm fast bowler who has impressed in domestic white-ball tournaments in the last two…