Yorkshire 222 for 5 (Wharton 54*, Masood 54) beat Essex 221 (Pepper 63, Bess 5-37, Revis 4-54) by 5 wickets Dom Bess and Matthew Revis produced career-best List A bowling figures to spark an Essex batting collapse and set up Yorkshire Vikings’ first Metro Bank One-Day Cup win of the season. Bess claimed 5 for 37 as Essex subsided from 103 for 0 – underpinned by Michael Pepper‘s swashbuckling personal-best…
Northamptonshire 204 for 4 (Shaw 125*) beat Durham 198 (Procter 4-34) by six wickets Prithvi Shaw followed up his brilliant innings of 244 with another outstanding knock of 125 not out to lead Northamptonshire Steelbacks to a dominant six-wicket win over Durham in their Metro Bank One-Day Cup clash at Seat Unique Riverside. Shaw unleashed an onslaught of hitting on Durham’s bowlers in the Steelbacks’ chase of 199, hitting15 fours…
Matthew Mott, England’s white-ball coach, has said he is “still hopeful” that Ben Stokes can be convinced out of his retirement from ODIs in time for England’s World Cup defence in October-November. Stokes, England’s Test captain and the Player of the Match in the 2019 World Cup final, quit ODIs last year citing an unsustainable schedule. He has been on holiday with his family since the end of the Ashes,…
Toss India chose to bat vs West Indies Hardik Pandya called correctly and an unchanged India elected to bat in the series-deciding fifth T20I in Lauderhill. Rovman Powell, his West Indies counterpart, said he would’ve wanted to bowl first anyway, which means both teams got what they wanted. Asked about his call to bat first, Hardik touched upon India wanting to challenge themselves. Perhaps the decision was also influenced by…
Warwickshire 111 for 1 (Barnard 65*) beat Worcestershire 108 (Hannon-Daly 5-31, Barnard 3-14) by 9 wickets Warwickshire seamers Oliver Hannon Dalby and Ed Barnard demolished Worcestershire Rapids with the new ball to maintain their side’s unbeaten record in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup with a resounding nine-wicket success at New Road. Hannon-Dalby and former Worcestershire allrounder Barnard bowled superbly in seam-friendly conditions under cloudy skies to reduce the home side…
Northern Superchargers 133 for 5 beat Manchester Originals (Litchfield 39, Ecclestone 1-17) 108 for 7 (Lamb 49, Davidson-Richards 3-23) by 4 runs on DLS Northern Superchargers moved level on points with Southern Brave at the top of The Women’s Hundred after Alice Davidson-Richards held her nerve take two wickets in the final five balls to defeat Manchester Originals by four runs in a rain-affected match at Headingley. The home side…
Oval Invincibles captain Dane van Niekerk has been ruled out of the remainder of the Women’s Hundred with a fracture on her right thumb. She had suffered the injury during Invincibles’ win over Manchester Originals and scans revealed an intra-articular fracture that will require surgery, the franchise said in a statement. New Zealand allrounder Suzie Bates will take over captaincy in van Niekerk’s absence. The franchise is set to announce…
Southern Brave 91 for 1 (Conway 35*) beat Welsh Fire 87 (Eskinazi 38, Mills 4-13, Garton 3-8) by nine wickets Southern Brave romped to a comfortable nine-wicket win over Welsh Fire, the bowlers setting the tone with Tymal Mills taking only the second hat-trick in the Men’s Hundred. That came off the final three balls of the Welsh Fire innings as they fell to 87 all out, the pattern started…
London Spirit 195 for 4 (Lawrence 93) beat Trent Rockets 193 for 5 (Root 72*) by two runs Dan Lawrence hammered the highest score of the Men’s Hundred so far and set up London Spirit’s first victory of the competition as they scraped past holders Trent Rockets by two runs in a tense finish at Lord’s. The Spirit captain hit 93 from 49 balls, including an impressive 10 fours and…
Southern Brave 145 for 8 (Dunkley 50, Ismail 2-19) beat Welsh Fire 144 for 5 (Bryce 44*, Adams 2-22) by 2 wickets Southern Brave went top of the Women’s Hundred table by winning a last-ball thriller against Welsh Fire in front of a record crowd of six and a half thousand for a women’s game in Cardiff. Captain Anya Shrubsole kept her nerve to get a leg bye off the…