Kent 116 for 3 (Cox 38*, Denly 35*, Smith 3-22) beat Gloucestershire 113 (Dent 55, Hogan 3-13) by seven wickets A near full house at Canterbury saw the Kent Spitfires rout Gloucestershire by seven wickets in their opening Vitality Blast fixture of 2023. The 2021 Champions cruised home with 6.3 overs to spare, closing on 116 for 3 in reply to the visitors’ meagre 113 all out. Michael Hogan took…
Mumbai have been plagued by injuries this season, even before the tournament started. Their lead bowler Jasprit Bumrah has been out for months, Jofra Archer returned home after playing five games with his recurring elbow injury, and they were also without Jhye Richardson for the entire tournament and Tilak Varma for a few league games. When asked at the presentation if he thought two weeks ago that Mumbai would make…
Mumbai Indians 182 for 8 (Green 41, Naveen 4-38, Thakur 3-34) beat Lucknow Super Giants 101 (Stoinis 40, Madhwal 5-5) by 81 runs Look out, Ahmedabad. Mumbai Indians are coming. The five-time champions put on a clinic to rout Lucknow Super Giants on Wednesday night and march into Qualifier 2. They are now two wins away from lifting a trophy they might soon trademark. Akash Madhwal was the star of…
Krunal Pandya accepted “full responsibility” for Lucknow Super Giants’ failure to chase down Mumbai’s 182 for 8 in the IPL 2023 Eliminator in Chennai, which ended their campaign in the competition. It was the second successive season – the only two they have been part of since becoming one of two new teams, Gujarat Titans the other, in 2022 – where LSG have been knocked out in the Eliminator, having…
Liam Livingstone will captain Lancashire in the 2023 T20 Blast – with his England white-ball skipper Jos Buttler in the ranks for the majority of the season. Livingstone spent a single season as Lancashire’s all-format club captain as a 24-year-old in 2018 but stepped down after struggling for form as the club were relegated from Division One of the County Championship. “I think I was a very different person and…
India and Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma believes T20 cricket has changed and there is no role left for anchors in the format. Subsequently, he has been exploring what more he can do as a batter in the format. Rohit said while power-hitting could never be his forte, as a batter, he wants to do things “differently” now without worrying too much about the outcomes. “As I see it, there…
Peter Moor is also in line to make his first ODI appearance for Ireland, having played a Test for them earlier this year. Moor, whose last ODI appearance was in July 2019 for Zimbabwe against Ireland, had expressed his desire to represent Ireland in the World Cup. The return of McCarthy further strengthens the bowling attack of the Andy Balbirnie-led 15-member squad, which also has Mark Adair, Josh Little, Craig…
How was Matheesha Pathirana allowed to bowl his second over – in the death overs no less – in Chennai Super Kings’ qualifier against Gujarat Titans despite being off the field for more than eight minutes? Even as Chennai Super Kings went on to win the match by 15 runs, this question caused a lot of intrigue. According to the IPL playing conditions, a player who leaves the field to…
The directors of cricket (DoCs) at county clubs have called for an “urgent” review into standard contracts to address the “very real challenge” presented by their players representing several franchises during the English winter. The majority of county cricketers are employed on 12-month contracts but the English season only runs from April to September, meaning that an ever-growing number of players are travelling overseas during the off-season to play in…
Is there such a thing as ‘passing the baton’ in Indian cricket? Why do RCB fall short every year and how do they fix this once and for all? Which bowlers will be part of the Indian team for the next T20 World Cup? Sanjay Manjrekar joins Vishal Dikshit and Kaustubh Kumar to review the final week of the tournament’s league stage. The former cricketer also reveals his favourite moments…