Month: May 2023

Northern Diamonds 160 for 5 (Winfield-Hill 51, Villiers 3-42) beat Sunrisers 157 (Grewcock 50, Levick 3-23) by five wickets Lauren Winfield-Hill maintained her remarkable Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy record with another commanding half-century to put Northern Diamonds back on track as they saw off Sunrisers by five wickets. The Diamonds opener passed 50 for the eighth time in her last 10 innings in the tournament to ensure the defending champions…

Royal Challengers Bangalore 126 for 9 (du Plessis 44, Kohli 31, Naveen 3-30) beat Lucknow Super Giants 108 (Gowtham 23, Hazlewood 2-15, Karn 2-20) by 18 runs In the previous meeting between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants, 425 runs were scored in 40 overs on the batting paradise at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. On Monday night, LSG served a black-soil pitch on their home ground where the ball…

Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir are not IPL captains anymore, but they were still involved in a heated exchange after Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Lucknow Super Giants by 18 runs. It was over 10 years after their altercation in the IPL during RCB’s match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Bengaluru. Kohli now plays for RCB as a specialist batter, and Gambhir is retired and works as the global mentor at…

Southern Vipers 184 for 7 (Adams 50, Arlott 2-23) beat Central Sparks 183 for 9 (Campbell 54, Adams 4-30) by three wickets Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams starred with bat and ball to power her side to a three-wicket Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy victory over Central Sparks at Wormsley. Adams took 4 for 30 in Sparks’ total of 183 for 9 and then made a composed 50 off 71 balls…

South East Stars 296 for 7 (Scholfield 134*, Smith 50) beat Western Storm 89 (Capsey 6-28) by 207 runs Paige Scholfield produced a magnificent innings to register her second century in three matches and help South East Stars beat Western Storm by 207 runs in a one-sided Rachael Heyhoe Flint fixture at Bristol’s Seat Unique Stadium. Continuing her outstanding start to the campaign, in-form Scholfield scored 134 not out in…

Lucknow Super Giants received big setbacks through injuries to captain KL Rahul and Jaydev Unadkat. Rahul limped off the ground after having injured either his right hamstring or quad when chasing a ball in the second over against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Unadkat injured his left shoulder after landing on the elbow in his follow-through in the nets on Sunday. While an update on Rahul was awaited, LSG were awaiting a…

Big picture – Tough challenge for Delhi Capitals Is Tuesday night’s game a contest between the season’s best and worst teams? It’s not just the points table suggesting that. In key metrics, Gujarat Titans reign supreme while Delhi Capitals bring up the bottom. Their chasing records (100% v 20%), middle-order batting averages (37.8 v 16.6) and scoring rate in the last four overs (12.3 v 7.9) suggest the same. David…

Royal Challengers Bangalore have brought in Kedar Jadhav as an injury replacement for David Willey for the remainder of IPL 2023. Jadhav was acquired for INR 1 crore (USD 122,300 approx.). Willey was struck on the toe while batting in RCB’s home defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednedsay and has since flown back to the UK. RCB said on their social media channels that his toe was fractured, and…

England have fired the first shots, or attempted to, in time-honoured fashion ahead of the men’s Ashes, now Issy Wong has joined in the salvo, saying it’s not a bad time to take on Australia Women with their multi-format series beginning next month. Wong made her debut in all three formats during South Africa’s tour of England last summer and is hoping to be part of the England side kicking…

In March they were facing each other in Ahmedabad and next month they will do so again at The Oval, but for the next few weeks Cheteshwar Pujara and Steven Smith will be team-mates at Sussex. Smith joins the county this week for his somewhat controversial pre-Ashes stint, which will see him play three County Championship matches in the build-up to the World Test Championship final against India and then…