Pienaar trumps Yusuf’s all-round show Batting first, captain Gautam Gambhir fell for 3 and Jesse Ryder and Naman Ojha for 17 each before Yusuf struck three sixes to help New Jersey to 95 for 3. Harbhajan Singh, Sreesanth and Najaf Shah took one wicket apiece. In reply, Chris Gayle’s 17 off 14 gave Morrisville some impetus before they slid to 18 for 2. Pienaar’s 33 off 17 brought the chase…
Oval Invincibles 139 for 7 (T Curran 43*, Jordan 3-20) beat Southern Brave 131 for 7 (David 44*, T Curran 3-43) by 8 runs Tom Curran smashed 43 off just 28 balls and took three wickets as Oval Invincibles beat Southern Brave by eight runs and all but secured top spot and their place in The Hundred final. Chris Jordan took three wickets, all clean bowled, in a devasting spell…
Aayan Afzal Khan did not have breakfast on the morning of the second T20I against New Zealand, and preferred sleeping before the game. In the evening, he feasted on New Zealand’s top order to pick up 3 for 20 and set up UAE’s first win over New Zealand across formats. Bowling on a used pitch, the 17-year-old left-arm spinner struck in his second over, castling Mitchell Santner with one that…
Trent Rockets 162 for 6 (Munro 34, Hain 30) beat Birmingham Phoenix 116 for 9 (Smith 38, Sams 3-17) by 46 runs Trent Rockets boost their own title defence and eliminated Birmingham Phoenix, thumping them by 46 runs in the final Hundred Men’s match of the season at Trent Bridge, watched by a record crowd of 15,551. Offspinner Matt Carter (2 for 15) and Australia allrounder Daniel Sams (3 for…
Southern Brave 132 for 3 (Adams 50*, Kemp 41*, Kapp 1-18) beat Oval Invincibles 130 for 6 (Bates 55, Scholfield 30, Brown 1-8) by seven wickets Georgia Adams slammed her highest Hundred score as Southern Brave bettered Oval Invincibles by seven wickets, ending the two-time champions’ reign. Allrounder Adams took control of a faltering chase with an unbeaten 50 off 32 balls while Freya Kemp – unable to bowl this…
India batted 41 balls with openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Yashasvi Jaiswal consuming 39 of those before rain stopped the play. The likes of Gaikwad, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, and Sanju Samson will be keen to make noteworthy performances, with an eye on the next T20 World Cup that is less than a year away. Among them, Samson – who is also in contention for the Asia Cup – will want…
Yorkshire have signed Dan Moriarty, the South African-born left-arm spinner, on a three-year contract from Surrey, making his loan move permanent. Moriarty broke into Surrey’s first team in 2020 and was part of their side that reached the T20 Blast final that season. But he gradually found opportunities harder to come by, and played a solitary game in their County Championship win last year. He played four games on loan…
Toss UAE chose to bowl vs New Zealand UAE captain Muhammad Waseem won the toss and just like in the first game elected to field first in the second T20I in Dubai. New Zealand retained the same XI that won the opening T20I while UAE made one change, bringing in fast bowler Muhammad Jawadullah in place of Junaid Siddique, who is unwell. On a two-paced Dubai surface in the opening…
Trent Rockets 134 for 6 (Smith 64, Arlott 3-15) beat Birmingham Phoenix 131 for 4 (A Jones 46*) by three runs Trent Rockets kept their hope of qualifying for the knock-out stages of The Women’s Hundred alive with a decisive win against Phoenix by 3 runs at Trent Bridge, defending 134 for 6 after Bryony Smith smashed a 64 off 40 balls. A strong performance from the home side’s bowlers…
Will KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer and Jasprit Bumrah be on the plane to Sri Lanka for the Asia Cup? We will know on Monday, August 21, when the senior men’s selection committee, chaired by Ajit Agarkar, convenes in New Delhi to pick the squad. It is understood that Rohit Sharma, the India captain, will join the meeting via video conference, along with SS Das, the selector on tour in Ireland…