Month: September 2023

Worcestershire 104 for 1 (Roderick 52, Libby 46*) vs Durham Jake Libby completed 1000 first-class runs for the second time in three seasons as Worcestershire made an encouraging start to their top-two LV=Insurance County Championship encounter with leaders Durham on a truncated day at New Road. The opener brought up his personal milestone with a single off Durham’s new signing, Sri Lanka seamer Vishwa Fernando. Libby and Gareth Roderick put…

Zak Crawley was “shocked” when Matthew Mott told him that he wanted him to captain England. His leadership experience at professional level amounts to two Championship games and two T20s for Kent, and he has only won three caps for England’s white-ball teams, all of them against Pakistan two years ago. But this three-match ODI series against Ireland, which starts at Headingley on Wednesday, represents an opportunity for Crawley to…

Yorkshire 155 for 9 (Bean 40, Davis 4-28) vs Leicestershire In a match they must win if they are to have a realistic chance of adding promotion to their One-Day Cup success, Leicestershire finished a shortened first day in a strong position in their LV=Insurance County Championship match against Yorkshire. Will Davis finished with 4 for 28, Tom Scriven and Scott Currie with two wickets each as Yorkshire stumbled to…

Essex 310 for 6 (Rossington 104, Critchley 83*, Westley 50) vs Hampshire Adam Rossington ended his horror season with a century as Essex took command on day one of the LV= Insurance County Championship clash with Hampshire and boosted their title bid. Wicketkeeper Rossington came into the match having only scored 188 runs in a season disrupted by injury and poor form but pushed through the gears to reach 104…

India seamer Deepak Chahar is determined to get his place back in the national team, having fully recovered from hamstring and back issues. Chahar, 31, last played for India in December last year and has been bogged down by multiple injury concerns in the past. He picked up a hamstring injury earlier in the season and missed as many as six IPL league games for Chennai Super Kings. Chahar had…

Big picture: Back to the margins It’s no slight on the visitors, honest. But here we are again, all the same. Just as Ireland opened England’s international season at Lord’s back in June, with a contest so translucent that both teams found themselves peering straight through it towards more pressing matters beyond, so they have returned at this fag-end of the English summer, with the narrative once again marching off…

Bangladesh quick Tanzim Hasan has had to apologise to the BCB for a number of offensive Facebook posts from the past, which resurfaced after his international debut at the Asia Cup last week. Some of the posts date back to 2014, and BCB cricket operations chair Jalal Yunus said Tanzim was repentant about his posts and took full responsibility for them. At least four posts, which are now deleted, became…

Eight people associated with Pune Devils franchise in the Abu Dhabi T10 tournament including Bangladesh allrounder Nasir Hossain have been charged by the ICC’ anti-corruption unit for alleged corrupt activities. The charges concern the 2020-21 edition of the tournament, which was played in Abu Dhabi. Apart from Nasir, the other seven charged are Krishan Kumar Chaudhary and Parag Sanghvi (two of the Devils’ co-owners), Rizwan Javed and Saliya Saman (two…

The English influx to the WBBL continues with Tammy Beaumont signing with Melbourne Renegades while Adelaide Strikers have signed Southern Brave off-spinning allrounder Georgia Adams for the upcoming season despite her having not played international cricket. Beaumont’s signing is not a surprise after the England opener had opted out of the WBBL overseas draft and instead had committed to the tournament via a new direct signing rule. Overseas players were…

Kuldeep Yadav is riding a wave of confidence following a Player-of-the-Series effort at the Asia Cup. Ahead of the World Cup, the Indian team management is doing all it can to “preserve” its lone wristspinner in the squad, and not “expose” him much against Australia, by resting him for the first two ODIs. “Kuldeep is a rhythm bowler, we all know that,” India captain Rohit Sharma said. “But we thought…