Month: September 2023

Durham 457 for 8 dec (Bedingham 156, Clark 119, Borthwick 63) xxx Leicestershire 143 (Raine 5-51, Fernando 4-40) and 173 by an innings and 141 runs Durham sealed an emphatic victory over Leicestershire by an innings and 141 runs, ensuring the LV= Insurance County Championship Division Two champions ended their magnificent campaign on the highest of notes at Seat Unique Riverside. The home side required 10 wickets to secure their…

The Pavilion End at Trent Bridge is to be renamed The Stuart Broad End, in recognition of the former Nottinghamshire and England seamer who retired from professional cricket after this summer’s Ashes. Broad, 37, bowed out in style at The Oval this summer, claiming the 604th and final wicket of his 16-year Test career to square the Ashes 2-2 with a 49-run victory over Australia. And, having confirmed on the…

Over the last four weeks, the cricket caravan has taken India on quite a journey: Bangalore-Colombo-Pallekele-Colombo-Mohali-Indore-Rajkot. The latest pit stop is Guwahati in India’s northeast, for the first lap of their World Cup campaign, to play England in their first warm-up on Saturday. India arrived from Rajkot, via a charter flight, late on Thursday and had an optional training session on Friday afternoon, attended by four players – Shubman Gill,…

Hampshire 219 and 172 (Vince 56, Jacks 5-87) beat Surrey 207 and 132 (Sudharsan 40, Dawson 4-53) by 52 runs Hampshire dampened Surrey’s celebrations within half-an-hour’s play on the final morning at the Ageas Bowl, to become just the second team to beat them across their back-to-back LV= Insurance County Championship titles. Only Lancashire had beaten Surrey in red-ball cricket in either 2022 or 2023, winning once in each campaign….

Victoria 298 for 7 (Harper 96, Harris 50, Kerr 3-57) beat New South Wales 239 (Hughes 69, Davies 41, Sutherland 3-39) by 59 runs Victoria remained unbeaten in the domestic one-day competition after a comfortable 59-run win over New South Wales. NSW’s chase never got going at the Junction Oval in Melbourne on Friday and they were all out for 239 in the 47th over as Victoria backed up their…

Mo Bobat, England Men’s performance director, has been confirmed as the new director of cricket at Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL, and will leave the ECB in February next year. Bobat, 40, has overseen the England Men’s pathway for the past four years, identifying and developing the players that have helped the team win World Cups in the 50-over and 20-over formats, while reinvigorating their Test fortunes under the…

It means that Maxwell and Adam Zampa are Australia’s only genuine spin options among their 14 fit players given that Steven Smith barely bowls anymore and Labuschagne’s legspin has faded in recent years. Should Head recover and be able to bowl, his offspin would provide a valuable option. There is yet to be a specific target for Head’s comeback, but he isn’t expected to be available until at least midway…

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson will miss the opening match of the 2023 ODI World Cup against England as he continues his recovery from knee surgery. Williamson will play as a specialist batter in New Zealand’s warm-up match against Pakistan in Hyderabad on Friday, with the aim of fielding and batting in their next warm-up game against South Africa in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. “Right from the start we’ve taken a…

Ellyse Perry‘s knee injury could keep her from bowling for the entire white-ball series against West Indies that kicks off the women’s home summer. Perry hurt her left knee playing the second one-day international of Australia’s series against Ireland in July. The injury forced her out of the final match against the Irish, as well as England’s franchise tournament the Hundred. In early September, Cricket Australia (CA) named the 32-year-old…

Glen Chapple will end an unbroken 31-year association with Lancashire this week, when he steps down as the club’s head coach at the conclusion of their ongoing contest against Kent. Chapple, 49, has been in his current role for the past seven seasons, having previously served as Ashley Giles’ first-team coach for the 2015 and 2016 seasons, and as acting head coach in 2014 following the departure of Peter Moores…