Central Sparks 137 (A Jones 51, Castle 3-24, Villiers 3-28) beat Sunrisers 114 (Griffith 53, Arlott 4-23) by 23 runs Amy Jones and Grace Potts proved the gamechangers for Central Sparks as they beat Sunrisers by 23 runs at Chelmsford in the opening game of the 2023 Charlotte Edwards Cup. England wicketkeeper Jones held Sparks together with a swashbuckling 51 from 34 balls out of a score of 137 all…
Leicestershire 173 (Ackermann 52, Leach 3-45, Waite 3-17) and 66 for 2 lead Worcestershire 83 (Wright 5-32, Davey 3-26) by 156 runs Veteran Leicestershire seamer Chris Wright took centre stage on a remarkable opening day to the LV=Insurance County Championship match with Worcestershire at New Road as 22 wickets tumbled. Wright initially played his part with the bat in making a valuable 30 during an eighth wicket partnership of 54…
Surrey 88 for 1 (Sibley 35*) trail Kent 278 (Evison 77*, Lawes 3-41) by 190 runs The oldest game in county cricket. The Brown Caps versus the Spitfires. Defending champions versus relegation candidates. Actual South London versus Claiming to be South London. It’s been 314 years of this fixture between Surrey and Kent, and it has rarely lacked narrative. Even the first game back in 1709 had £50 on it….
Sussex 221 for 4 (Smith 68*, Haines 58, Coles 50*) lead Glamorgan 123 (Robinson 4-29) by 98 runs How many pre-Ashes blows is it possible to land in one County Championship match? That is not merely a rhetorical question, given the number of international head-to-heads as Sussex took on Glamorgan at Hove. Ollie Robinson unequivocally landed the first of them, trapping Marnus Labuschagne lbw third ball as part a four-wicket…
Royal Challengers Bangalore 187 for 2 (Kohli 100, du Plessis 71) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad 186 for 5 (Klaasen 104, Bracewell 2-13) by eight wickets A stunning chase from Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis significantly strengthened Royal Challengers Bangalore’s hopes of making it to the playoffs despite one of the great T20 hundreds by Heinrich Klaasen to set up a target of 187. Kohli scored his sixth IPL hundred, making…
Nottinghamshire 13 for 0 trail Essex 298 (Cook 72, Westley 66, Hutton 4-69) by 285 runs Trent Bridge has been sent more love-letters than Marilyn Monroe ever received and today this perfect old ground received a few more, not all of them from the cricketers. At first, though, one came from Alastair Cook, whose overtures were as gracious as one might expect; his 72 was studded with the strokes he…
Durham 393 for 9 (Clark 100, de Leede 65, Borthwick 53) vs Gloucestershire Graham Clark scored his first hundred in six years to put Second Division leaders Durham in control on the opening day of the LV=County Championship match against Gloucestershire at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol. Encountering a flat pitch and batter-friendly weather for the first time this season, the visitors won the toss and ran up 393…
Hampshire 331 for 6 (Vince 95, Dawson 56*, Brown 44, Middleton 40) vs Northamptonshire James Vince was finally dismissed at the Ageas Bowl after again dominating Northamptonshire with an expert 95 in the LV=Insurance County Championship. Hampshire captain Vince had clocked up 232 runs in 514 minutes since he was last dismissed at the Ageas Bowl, while he has now passed fifty in four of his last five Championship innings….
BCB president Nazmul Hassan has weighed in on Bangladesh’s World Cup squad even as he recognised that the final call would be with chief selector Minhajul Abedin. Hassan spoke about all the positions in the team, in particular the much-talked-about No. 7 spot. Bangladesh have recently tended to pick six bowlers and trust Mehidy Hasan Miraz to bat at No 7 position. Hassan has been known over the years for…
Arafat Bhuiyan, a British-Bangladeshi seam bowler, has become the seventh graduate of the South Asian Cricket Academy (SACA) to sign professional terms, after joining Kent for the remainder of the 2023 season. Bhuiyan was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, but has UK residency, and has taken 17 wickets for Kent’s second XI, including best figures of 4 for 81 against Hampshire earlier this month. He made his first-class debut in Kent’s…