Warwickshire 364 for 5 (Hain 85, Burgess 60*) lead Hampshire 229 (Vince 75*, Rushworth 3-38, Woakes 3-45) by 135 runs Sam Hain passed fifty for the third time in five innings this season as Warwickshire continued to dominate Hampshire in the LV= Insurance County Championship. Hain began the season with centuries against Kent and Somerset and returned to form after a quiet match against Surrey with a faultless 85. Hong…
Glamorgan 245 and 57 for 2 lead Yorkshire 106 (Neser 7-32) by 196 runs If you are going to send a message to your national selectors from the other side of the world, doing so when they are awake can be tough, particularly with 11am starts. Sometimes, though, a player nails their small window. By 12.28pm on Friday at Headingley, Michael Neser did just that with typical precision, completing a…
Lucknow Super Giants have drafted in Karun Nair as a replacement for KL Rahul for the remainder of IPL 2023. Nair comes on board for INR 50 lakh. Nair is an experienced hand in the IPL, and has scored 1496 runs in 76 IPL games over the years, turning out for Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals), Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings), Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals and RCB. Nair and…
Gujarat Titans 119 for 1 (Saha 41*, Hardik 39*, Chahal 1-22) beat Rajasthan Royals 118 (Samson 30, Rashid 3-14, Noor 2-25) by nine wickets Clinical. That’s what Gujarat Titans were against Rajasthan Royals on Friday night in Jaipur. After bowling out Royals for a mere 118, they chased the target down in just 13.5 overs with nine wickets still in hand. The win helped Titans stretch their lead at the…
Ajaz Patel, the New Zealand left-arm spinner, has joined Durham as a replacement for Australia’s Matt Kuhnemann, who suffered a back injury while playing against Glamorgan in April and has had to pull out of his deal. Patel, 34, will link up with the Durham squad ahead of next week’s Championship fixture against Yorkshire and will be available for a maximum of seven first-class games. He will take over the…
Sciver-Brunt, the most prolific bowler in English women’s cricket, called time on her international career after 19 years on Friday, ruling her out of the home Women’s Ashes series starting next month. In reality, she would only have been available for selection in the T20 leg of the multi-format series, having announced her retirement from Tests nearly a year ago and played what was to be her final ODI during…
Big picture: Capitals need Warner firing Delhi Capitals’ problems start at the top. They are the second-slowest scorers (run rate of 7.68) in the powerplay and their opening pair averages a shade under 26. They are up against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, who are the most economical bowling team in the powerplay, with an economy of 7.29 to go with their 22 wickets. While David Warner has been a constant…
Big picture – MI have the wood on CSK at Chepauk The last time Chennai Super Kings lost two home games in the league stage of an IPL season was way back in 2013. After they suffered a last-ball defeat to Punjab Kings last weekend, CSK’s head coach Stephen Fleming suggested that the Impact Player rule has allowed teams to go harder at oppositions this IPL – both Adam Zampa…
Katherine Sciver-Brunt, the most prolific bowler in English women’s cricket, has announced her international retirement after a 19-year career. Sciver-Brunt, who made her England debut in 2004, played the last of her 267 international matches against South Africa in the T20 World Cup semi-final at Newlands in February. In all, she claimed a total of 335 wickets across formats for England, comprising 170 in ODIs and 114 in T20Is –…
Toss New Zealand chose to field vs Pakistan New Zealand won the toss and elected to field in the fourth ODI against New Zealand. With Pakistan having wrapped the series up, New Zealand handed an ODI debut to Ben Lister, who replaced Adam Milne. James Neesham came back in the XI as Henry Nicholls sat out while Blair Tickner replaced Henry Shipley. Pakistan, who will go atop the ODI rankings…