Month: May 2023

Derbyshire 144 for 3 (Haider 54) trail Leicestershire 122 (Brookes 6-20) by 22 runs A career-best performance by Henry Brookes brought Leicestershire back down to earth as Derbyshire dominated the opening day of the LV= Insurance County Championship match at Derby. The 23-year-old Warwickshire fast bowler marked the first game of a short loan spell by taking 6 for 20 in 12 overs, five of them maidens, to send Leicestershire…

Warwickshire 82 for 0 (Davies 46*) trail Hampshire 229 (Vince 75*, Rushworth 3-38, Woakes 3-45) by 147 runs James Vince continued his fine form with an unbeaten 75 but Hampshire collapsed to give Warwickshire the best of day one at the Ageas Bowl. Hampshire captain Vince scored a stunning 186 in the victory over Northamptonshire last month and looked untroubled in the face of a challenging visiting attack. Chris Woakes…

Northamptonshire 137 for 4 (Vasconcelos 70) vs Somerset Ricardo Vasconcelos made the best of a bad situation to register a notable half-century and keep Northants afloat on the first day of the LV=County Championship match against Somerset at the Cooper Associates Ground at Taunton. On a day when the first division’s bottom two teams sought the reassurance that only positive progress can provide, they were frustrated by the rain that…

Royal Multisport Private Limited – Rajasthan Royals’ parent company – have been David Miller‘s employers for around one-third of the last seven months but on Friday night, he will find himself walking out to bat against them. Miller represented Barbados in the Caribbean Premier League last September, and captained Paarl in the SA20 in January, but for the months of April and May, he is playing for the team that…

With only a few ODIs left to play ahead of the 50-over World Cup, Imam-ul-Haq has advised against experimenting with Pakistan’s underperforming middle order, even though the team has taken an unassailable 3-0 lead in their five-match series against New Zealand. Imam, the player of the match in the third ODI, was especially not convinced by the option of playing Iftikhar Ahmed or Mohammad Haris as power-hitters in the middle…

Big picture: Some yellove for the Titans Has anybody else watched Gujarat Titans and got major CSK vibes? #Hearmeout They have a captain who thrives under pressure. A coach who backs him no matter what. A fast bowler who is a powerplay phenom. A spinner who is very hard to hit (CSK used to have that with R Ashwin). And players who look like they have plenty of job security….

Two-time T20 World Cup champion Johnson Charles has joined Kolkata Knight Riders for the remainder of IPL 2023 as a replacement player for Litton Das. Charles, a member of the West Indies team that was crowned champions in 2012 and 2016, brings with him extensive experience at the top of the batting order. He has opened in 179 of his 219 T20 innings, averaging 25.47 and striking at 125.72. He…

Stuart Broad would like nothing more than to have Steven Smith caught at mid-off, but Alex Carey does not believe that Australia will be drawn into trying match England’s aggressive style when the Ashes commences next month. Related Aussies overseas: IPL and county cricket amid Ashes build-up Ollie Robinson keen to ‘put right’ Ashes record Broad: Australia’s 2021-22 win doesn’t count as real Ashes Steve Smith sets out to debunk…

Bird, the 36-year-old pace bowler who played nine Tests for Australia, has joined New South Wales on a two-year deal while top-order batter McDermott heads back to Queensland where he made his first-class and one-day debuts in 2014. Bird, who was born in Sydney but has played his entire Australian first-class career with Tasmania, joins a NSW side looking rebuild after a horror season which saw them finish bottom of…

Mumbai Indians 216 for 4 (Kishan 75, Suryakumar 66, Ellis 2-34) beat Punjab Kings 214 for 3 (Livingstone 82*, Jitesh 49*, Chawla 2-29) by six wickets Punjab Kings have a deep batting line-up, which allows them to approach their innings in a fearless manner. They duly posted 200-plus for the fourth time in a row – an IPL record – courtesy an unbroken stand of 119 in 8.4 overs from…