Toss New Zealand chose to bat vs Pakistan New Zealand won the toss and opted to bat in the final ODI against Pakistan in Karachi. Looking to avoid a clean sweep, Tom Latham, who fielded first upon calling correctly the last two games, opted to set a target instead. New Zealand made four changes to the team with Adam Milne, Rachin Ravindra, Henry Shipley and Henry Nicholls coming in. Daryl…
Greg Shipperd, one of the most renowned coaches in Australian cricket, has been named new head coach of the New South Wales men’s team with the task of reviving the state’s fortunes after their first winless Sheffield Shield campaign in 84 years. Shipperd, who has previously coached Tasmania and Victoria, guiding the latter to four Shield titles, has been in charge of Sydney Sixers for the last eight seasons, which…
Central Sparks 223 for 9 (Jones 69, Cross 3-40) tied with Thunder 234 (Ecclestone 74, Lamb 56, Burns 4-56) DLS method Thunder and Central Sparks conjured up a thrilling tie in a rain-affected Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy match at Emirates Old Trafford. Chasing a Duckworth/Lewis/Stern method revised target of 224 off 45 overs, the Sparks’ last pair of Davina Perrin and Grace Potts scrambled seven of the eight runs required…
Lancashire 214 and 219 for 4 (Bohannon 92, Balderson 91) lead Nottinghamshire 249 (Hameed 97) by 184 runs You would need to be a confirmed anti-monarchist to turn up at Trent Bridge on a wretched day like this: the coronation of King Charles III pointedly shunned in favour of a bedraggled County Championship match that appeared likely to be rained off by lunchtime only to totter back into life when…
Somerset 412 (Kohler-Cadmore 130, Rew 89, White 5-103) lead Northamptonshire 255 and 66 for 1 by 91 runs James Rew gave another demonstration of his immense potential as Somerset built a strong position on the third day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match with Northamptonshire at Taunton. The 19-year-old wicketkeeper contributed 89 to help the home side extend their first innings total from 199 for four to 412 all…
Delhi Capitals 187 for 3 for D (Salt 87) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 181 for 4 (Kohli 55, Lomror 54*, Marsh 2-21) by seven wickets The Delhi Capitals’ batting might has turned up a little late in the tournament but they gave their home crowd a dazzling display of boundary hitting, the centerpiece of which was Phil Salt‘s 87 off 45 balls, to finish off a chase of 182 against…
Derbyshire 350 for 7 dec (du Plooy 94, Madsen 67, Haider 54, Mulder 5-67) lead Leicestershire 122 (Brookes 6-20) by 228 runs Derbyshire were frustrated by rain which washed out most of the third day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match against Leicestershire at Derby. The home side batted on in the morning to secure a third batting point before declaring on 350 for 7, a lead of 228. But…
Matheesha Pathirana “shouldn’t even get close” to red-ball cricket, in the opinion of MS Dhoni, his captain at Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2023. Pathirana, a new-gen version of Lasith Malinga, has emerged as one of the aces in Dhoni’s pack in the IPL, and picked up three wickets for just 15 runs against Mumbai Indians at Chepauk on Saturday, bowling all his overs in the back-half of the innings….
Essex 314 and 24 for 0 lead Surrey 240 by 98 runs Essex and Surrey were left frustrated at rain-swept Chelmsford where only 6.4 overs were possible across two brief spells on day three. Essex have now lost an accumulated 458 overs to the weather in their first four LV= Insurance County Championship rounds – the equivalent of an entire four-day match. There were two interruptions inside the first half-an-hour,…
Chennai Super Kings 140 for 4 (Conway 44, Gaikwad 30, Chawla 2-25) beat Mumbai Indians 139 for 8 (Wadhera 64, Suryakumar 26, Pathirana 3-15) by six wickets On a pitch where the ball was stopping, it was actually Chennai Super Kings’ pace trio of Matheesha Pathirana, Deepak Chahar and Tushar Deshpande which combined to take seven wickets and restrict Mumbai Indians to 139. Super Kings never looked in trouble during…