Month: April 2023

Sussex 335 (Pujara 115) and 232 for 8 (Haines 64, Pujara 35, Carter 33*) beat Durham 376 (Jones 87, Lees 79, McAndrew 5-85) and 189 (Robinson 58, Hudson-Prentice 4-27, Crocombe 4-47) by two wickets Sussex won their opening match in the LV= Insurance County Championship for the first time since 2015 after Oli Carter‘s unbeaten 33 guided them to a two-wicket victory against Durham. Carter, the 21-year-old wicketkeeper-batter, fittingly hit…

Deepak Chahar will undergo scans this week to determine the extent of the left-hamstring injury he sustained during Chennai Super Kings’ seven-wicket win over Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday night. Chahar, the leader of Super Kings’ seam attack, pulled up injured after five balls of his first over before receiving treatment from Tommy Simsek, the franchise’s long-serving physio, who appeared to tape up his left hamstring. He…

In what will be a first if nothing changes in the next few months, not a single captain from the previous edition of the men’s ODI World Cup will lead a team at the 2023 men’s ODI World Cup later this year in India. There have been retirements and changes at the top in the intervening period, and Kane Williamson is likely to miss the 2023 event after the knee…

Australia A 253 and 50 for 1 (Kellaway 29*, Renshaw 20* van Beek 1-14) lead New Zealand A 246 (Solia 60, Bruce 44, Hay 43, Buckingham 6-58) by 66 runs Young quick Jordan Buckingham claimed six wickets to give Australia A a marginal first-innings lead in their unofficial Test against a New Zealand side. On the finest day of his first-class career, Buckingham took 6 for 58 to help dismiss…

Coming in at No. 3 after Devon Conway fell to Jason Behrendorff in the first over of Super Kings’ run chase, Rahane was the aggressor in his partnership with Ruturaj Gaikwad and struck 23 runs off a single over from Arshad Khan, the fourth of the innings, to get his new franchise ahead of the required rate. “When we were bowling, we got the idea of how the wicket was…

Sussex 335 and 172 for 5 (Haines 64) need 59 runs to beat Durham 376 and 189 (Robinson 58, Hudson-Prentice 4-27, Crocombe 4-47) Sussex’s youthful promise has been damned by the cricket gods on more than one occasion in recent years, and their supporters will sleep uneasily on a requirement of 59 with five wickets still standing. They seemed to have a precious victory all but secure at 166 for…

In 2022, Suryakumar Yadav was redefining the concept of risk in cricket. Playing behind the wicket as much as he did in front of it, taking balls from well outside off for boundaries to square leg and midwicket, he was expanding on what was possible on the field and he was able to do it for a fairly long time. In 12 months, and 31 T20Is, he amassed 1164 runs…

Yorkshire 517 and 220 for 4 (Hope 83*, Hill 57*, Wharton 52) lead Leicestershire 415 (Handscomb 112, Rehan 85, Milnes 3-72, Thompson 3-86) by 322 runs Yorkshire’s coach, Ottis Gibson, expressed the wish on the eve of the season for a new groundstaff to bring more life to Headingley’s surfaces as they seek to return to Division One at the first attempt, but there have been no signs of an…

Lancashire291 (Jennings 76, de Grandhomme 67*; Abbott 5-50) and 37 for 0 need 407 runs to beat Surrey 442 and 292 for 6 declared (Foakes 103*, Burns 54; Parkinson 5-120) The climate caught up with the cricket season at Emirates Old Trafford today. When this match began on Thursday, Lancashire’s players were requesting hand-warmers and probably wouldn’t have minded a cup of Bovril in the middle of each session. This…

Derbyshire 321 and 269 for 6 (Godleman 86, Haider 65, du Plooy 52*) lead Worcestershire 473 (Waite 109*, D’Oliveira 89, Chappell 5-69) by 117 runs Matthew Waite’s maiden century put Worcestershire in a strong position on the third day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match against Derbyshire at the Incora County Ground. The former Yorkshire all-rounder passed his previous highest first-class score of 59 to end unbeaten on 109 from…