Month: June 2023

Gloucestershire 421 for 8 (O Price 97*, Hammond 92, Moriarty 4-131) trail Yorkshire 550 for 9 dec by 129 runs Gloucestershire were rewarded with some brotherly love as Ollie Price and older brother Tom batted in entertaining fashion to take their team to almost certain safety in the ongoing LV= Insurance County Championship clash with Yorkshire at Headingley. Gloucestershire started a weather-affected day three at 2.15pm on 232 for 5,…

Worcestershire 237 and 70 for 2 trail Derbyshire 578 for 5 dec (du Plooy 238*, Dal 141*) by 271 runs Captain Leus du Plooy struck his maiden double century as Derbyshire took control of a record-breaking day against Worcestershire in the LV=Insurance County Championship encounter at New Road. Du Plooy and Anuj Dal came together at 320-5 and put on an unbroken 258, the Peakites record stand for the sixth…

Somerset 163 (Hutton 5-34)and 514 for 8 dec (Bartlett 134, Rew 123*, Lammonby 73, Aldridge 50) beat Nottinghamshire 186 (Slater 70, Henry 6-59) and 92 (Davey 4-17) trail by 399 runs James Rew notched his fourth LV= Insurance County Championship century of the season to help Somerset complete a 399-run rout of Nottinghamshire inside three days at Taunton. The 19-year-old wicketkeeper hit a career-best 123 not out as his side…

Josh Tongue has only taken 11 wickets for Worcestershire in the County Championship’s second division this season but one of them earned him more attention than the other 10 put together. In his first innings of a controversial three-match stint with Sussex, Steven Smith had made 30 when Tongue’s nip-backer struck him just above the top of his pad at New Road. Smith did not seem thrilled with the lbw…

Ben Stokes says that a random encounter with a non-cricket fan during a spa break between Tests has brought home to him just how important and engaging this Ashes series is proving to be, and has vowed to continue to push for victory at all costs in this week’s second Test at Lord’s. Australia’s thrilling two-wicket win at Edgbaston in the series opener had left Stokes admitting to being “emotionally…

Northamptonshire 237 and 214 for 5 (Keogh 57, Procter 52) trail Kent 621 (Bell-Drummond 300*, Russell 6-175) by 170 runs Kent’s Daniel Bell-Drummond became Wantage Road’s first visiting triple-centurion as his side closed in on an innings victory against Northamptonshire in the LV= Insurance County Championship. Bell-Drummond finished unbeaten on exactly 300, registering the fourth-highest individual score in Kent’s history after almost nine hours at the crease as the visitors…

Hampshire 419 (Dawson 141, Gubbins 120, de Caires 7-144) beat Middlesex 150 (Dawson 6 for 40) and 208 (Higgins 54, Dawson 6-90) by an innings and 61 runs Liam Dawson completed the greatest LV= Insurance County Championship performance of his career by becoming only the fourth Hampshire player to score a century and take 10 wickets in a match . Dawson had scored 141 in Hampshire’s only innings before taking…

Essex 457 (Lawrence 152, Westley 114) and 85 for 1 beat Warwickshire 158 (Harmer 5-65) and 381 (Lintott 78, Bess 63, Mousley 61, Harmer 5-165) by nine wickets Simon Harmer claimed the 14th ten-wicket match haul of his career as he helped Essex to a nine-wicket victory that catapulted them into second place in the Division One table. The South African off-spinner had played a key part in dismissing Warwickshire…

The ECB has recommended that Yorkshire be fined £500,000 and face points deductions in all three competitions this season in the wake of the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal. Yorkshire pleaded guilty to four amended charges of bringing the game into disrepute earlier this year, with their punishment due to be decided after a Cricket Discipline Committee (CDC) sanctions hearing. Jane Mulcahy KC, representing the ECB, said the governing body was…

Sri Lanka 172 for 1 (Athapaththu 108*, Gunaratne 50) beat New Zealand 170 for 5 (A Kerr 40, Green 38, Dilhari 1-26) by nine wickets New Zealand are rated higher than Sri Lanka and are ahead of them on the Women’s Championship points table, but the combined might of their spinners and the peerless Chamari Athapaththu ensured that Sri Lanka started their ODI series, at home in Galle, with a…