Gloucestershire 165 and 373 for 5 (Harris 148, Hammond ) lead Glamorgan 404 (Root 117*, T Price 4-56) by 134 runs Marcus Harris produced a convincing early audition for a place in Australia’s Ashes side with a brilliant hundred against Glamorgan in Cardiff. Harris, who won an Australia contract this week, struck 148 as Gloucestershire had a near-perfect day with the bat after a poor showing in their first innings….
Warwickshire 307 for 5 (Davies 118, Hain 83*) lead Somerset 269 for 8 (Gregory 65*, Barnard 3-54) by 23 runs Alex Davies hit his seventh first-class century as Warwickshire built a narrow first-innings lead over Somerset on the third day of the rain-affected LV= County Championship game at Taunton After dismissing their hosts for 284 from an overnight 269 for eight, the visitors had replied with 307 for five when…
The Delhi Capitals are “a long way off right now” but Ricky Ponting can’t fathom the reasons behind their collective failure just yet. On Saturday, they went down for a third straight time in IPL 2023 after the Rajasthan Royals posted 199 on their way to a 57-run win. “We are a long way off right now,” head coach Ricky Ponting assessed after their 57-run loss in Guwahati. “I can’t…
Northamptonshire 117 and 300 for 7 (Keogh 101*, Azad 51) lead Kent 222 (Crawley 91, Tremain 5-44, White 4-57) by 195 runs Rob Keogh hit a century as Northamptonshire clawed their way back into contention on day three of their LV= Insurance County Championship game with Kent at Canterbury. Keogh’s unbeaten 101 helped the visitors to 300 for seven at stumps, a lead of 195, thwarting Kent’s hopes of wrapping…
Chennai Super Kings 159 for 3 (Rahane 61, Gaikwad 40*, Kartikeya 1-24) beat Mumbai Indians 157 for 8 (Kishan 32, Jadeja 3-20, Santner 2-28, Deshpande 2-31) by seven wickets Chennai Super Kings lost their premier seamer Deepak Chahar to injury after he had bowled just one over. They were already without the match-winner from their last game, Moeen Ali (illness), and Ben Stokes (injured), but Ravindra Jadeja and Mitchell Santner…
Big picture: Sunrisers searching for their first win Sunrisers Hyderabad went to Lucknow buoyed by the arrival of the South African part of their contingent. They had all the plans in place: play only three overseas players if batting first, bring in Heinrich Klaasen if struggling with the bat or go for big Marco Jansen when bowling. However, they got blindsided on a pitch designed to neutralise their pace attack….
Hampshire 231 (Middleton 59, Paterson 3-39) and 132 for 2 (Middleton 65, Gubbins 54*) beat Nottinghamshire 185 (Moores 49*, Abbas 6-49) and 177 (Duckett 51, Abbott 4-39) by eight wickets Hampshire put their LV= Insurance County Championship title marker down with a comfortable eight-wicket victory over Nottinghamshire. Hampshire are aiming to win their first Championship for 50 years, after two near misses, and chased down 132 with ease thanks to…
Rajasthan Royals 199 for 4 (Buttler 79, Jaiswal 60, Mukesh 2-36) beat Delhi Capitals 142 for 9 (Warner 65, Chahal 3-27, Boult 3-29) by 57 runs The first over of each innings pretty much set the tone for the result. Yashasvi Jaiswal carted Khaleel Ahmed for five fours to start Rajasthan Royals’ innings after they were sent in by Delhi Capitals; and when the chase started, Trent Boult expanded his…
Jofra Archer is absent from Mumbai Indians’ line-up for the high-profile IPL match against Chennai Super Kings on Saturday evening. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Archer experienced discomfort in his right elbow immediately after his first game of the season against Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 2. Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai captain, when asked by Ravi Shastri at the toss about injuries replied, “one injury.” But then quickly corrected himself to…
Fast bowler Ali Khan has been banned for the United States’ next two games for a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct. The one demerit point it incurred has seen his accumulated demerit points add up to four in a 24-month period, triggering an automatic suspension. Khan was found to have breached Article 2.5 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which…