Brian Booth, the former Australia Test captain, has died at the age of 89. A middle-order batter and a part-time offspinner, Booth played a total of 29 Tests, scoring 1773 runs and taking three wickets. He also represented Australia in hockey at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics before he earned his Test cap on the 1961 Ashes tour as a 27-year-old. In an interview with The Cricket Monthly in 2013, Booth…
Northern Diamonds 218 for 3 (Winfield-Hill 98, Armitage 74) beat Western Storm 186 for 8 (Gibson 52, Levick 2-25, Scott 2-27) by 32 runs Brutal innings of 98 and 74 from Lauren Winfield-Hill and Hollie Armitage led the Northern Diamonds to a record-breaking total of 218 for 3 in a landslide Charlotte Edwards Cup victory by 32 runs over Western Storm at Headingley. Never before in two years of regional…
Kent 278 (Evison 77*, Lawes 3-41) and 80 for 4 (Mueyeye 42, Crawley 31*, Lawes 2-2) trail Surrey 362 (Abbott 78, Sibley 60, Atkinson 55*, Bhuiyan 4-65) by 4 runs There was still one delivery left in the 83rd over, but Arafat Bhuiyan already had his jumper off down at fine leg. Realising his error, he chucked it over the boundary rope, walked in for the final delivery, then chucked…
Rajasthan Royals 189 for 6 (Padikkal 51, Jaiswal 50, Hetmyer 46, Rabada 2-40) beat Punjab Kings 187 for 5 (Curran 49*, Jitesh 44, Saini 3-40) by four wickets It got quite nervy in the end, but Rajasthan Royals finished on the right side of the result in Dharamsala, beating and eliminating Punjab Kings in a four-wicket win while also keeping their outside playoff chance alive. Jaiswal and Padikkal dragged Royals…
Punjab Kings’ ouster means now six teams are in contention for the remaining three playoff spots, going into the final weekend of the league stage. Here is a look at how the fortunes of each team stack up. Rajasthan Royals Played 14, Points 14, NRR 0.148 Rajasthan Royals have kept themselves in the hunt for a top-four finish with their last-over win against Kings. Their net run rate of 0.148…
Glamorgan 123 and 118 for 1 (Byrom 57) trail Sussex 481 (Coles 138, Smith 89, Haines 58) by 240 runs Come for the Australian great, stay for the local rising star. There was a Sussex centurion on day two at Hove but it was not, as had been expected, Steven Smith. Instead, 19-year-old James Coles took the acclaim on a sun-dappled afternoon by the south coast, with a maiden first-class…
Middlesex 175 (Simpson 57*, Henry 5-45) and 81 for 1 trail Somerset 404 (Bartlett 121, Abell 77) by 148 runs Matt Henry took centre stage with bat and especially ball as Somerset forced hosts Middlesex to follow-on on day two of their LV = Insurance County Championship clash at Lord’s. The New Zealand paceman, who took 4 for 93 against England in a Test at Lord’s eight years ago, again…
Nottinghamshire 326 for 5 (Montgomery 130*, Slater 57, Clarke 57; S Cook 3-51) lead Essex 298 by 28 runs One way of assessing whether cricket matters to a place is to consider how many businesses surrounding a county ground maintain close connections with the game. One is thinking of serious immersion here rather than namecheck association. After all, many towns with a thriving cricket club have a pub named The…
Northamptonshire 56 (Barker 4-13) and 50 for 2 (Whiteman 25*, Turner 1-10, Barker 1-20) f/o trail Hampshire 367 (Vince 95, Dawson 63, White 4-80) by 261 runs Northamptonshire’s batting woes continued as they were bowled out for 56 – the lowest total in the Ageas Bowl’s 22-year history during their LV= County Championship match against Hampshire. Fast bowler Keith Barker was their main tormentor as he pilfered 4 for 13…
Gloucestershire 255 for 9 (Charlesworth 71, Harris 52, Patel 5-93, Potts 2-35) trail Durham 445 (Clark 100, de Leede 65, Coughlin 59*, Borthwick 53) by 190 runs Durham spinner Ajaz Patel put the skids under Gloucestershire on day two of an increasingly one-sided LV=County Championship encounter at Bristol’s Seat Unique Stadium. The slow left-armer claimed a season’s best haul of 5 for 93 and England paceman Matthew Potts weighed in…