Month: September 2023

Somerset 215 (Wagner 72, Davey 46, Rushworth 5-47) and 90 for 2 (Dickson 36*, Umeed 20*, Barnard 2-27) lead Warwickshire 273 (Barnard 73, Davies 44, Rhodes 42) by 32 runs Ed Barnard‘s effectiveness with bat and ball maintained Warwickshire’s hopes of victory over Somerset as this end-of-season, mid-table LV=Insurance County Championship clash meandered along under leaden skies at Edgbaston. At the end of a third successive heavily weather-affected day, Somerset…

Derbyshire 450 for 8 dec (Reece 139, Guest 96, Wagstaff 78) and 68 for 0 lead Glamorgan 301 for 5 dec (Ingram 82, Zain-ul-Hassan 65, Root 53, Thomson 4-97) by 217 runs Glamorgan skipper Kiran Carlson decided to dangle a carrot in front of Derbyshire in a bid to engineer a result in the final game of the season by declaring at 301 for 5 to give the visitors a…

Gloucestershire 195 (Hammond 48, Carson 3-19, Currie 3-36, Hunt 3-52) and 113 for 5 (Hunt 3-19) need another 400 runs to beat Sussex 202 and 505 for 7 dec (Coles 128, Alsop 79, Hudson-Prentice 71*) Whether or not Sussex win their final match of the season – and they were well placed to beat Gloucestershire at the close on day three – could be the difference between finishing third or…

Worcestershire 389 (D’Oliveira 103, Kashif Ali 93, Allison 75) and 18 for 2 lead Yorkshire 262 for 6 dec (Hill 52, Revis 51*, Bess 48*) by 145 runs Yorkshire declared their first-innings reply to Worcestershire’s 389 with a deficit of 127 at tea on day three in a bid to force a season-ending LV= Insurance County Championship victory. Yorkshire, bottom of Division Two and with the chance to leapfrog Gloucestershire…

Middlesex 366 (Higgins 137, Eskinazi 58, Yadav 56, Hutton 5-94) and 10 for 0 trail Nottinghamshire 384 (Slater 140, Clarke 70) by 8 runs Relegation will surely feel likelier than survival for Middlesex as they contemplate the final day of the LV=Insurance County Championship season, having failed to take the upper hand against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge. Anchored by opener Ben Slater‘s authoritative 140, a vigil spanning more than seven…

Leicestershire 143 (Raine 5-51, Fernando 4-40) and 13 for 0 trail Durham 457 for 8 dec (Bedingham 156, Clark 119, Borthwick 63) by 301 runs Durham need 10 wickets on the final day of their LV= Insurance County Championship clash against Leicestershire to wrap up their Division Two title-winning season with a victory at Seat Unique Riverside. The hosts were frustrated by a wet outfield and bad light in their…

South Africa 257 for 3 (Wolvaardt 124*, Luus 53, Kapp 45*, Tahuhu 2-40) beat New Zealand 253 (Amelia Kerr 88, Green 43, Mlaba 3-41, de Klerk 3-44) by seven wickets Laura Wolvaardt‘s unbeaten 124 helped South Africa chase down New Zealand’s 253 with seven wickets and 28 balls to spare in the second ODI in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday. The win gave the hosts an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match…

Lancashire 327 (Bohannon 113, Hurst 76*, Balderson 54) and 126 for 0 (Wells 69*, Jennings 52*) trail Kent 494 (Denly 136, Compton 95, Balderson 4-69) by 41 runs Kent’s future in Division One of LV= Insurance County Championship hung in the balance on Thursday night, after Lancashire reached 126 without loss in their second innings, a deficit of 41. Joe Denly‘s 136 had helped Kent to 494, a first-innings lead…

Alec Stewart has accused the ECB of disrespecting the County Championship on the day Surrey secured the 2023 title. Stewart, who has been Surrey’s director of cricket since 2014, criticised the decision to schedule a one-day international series against Ireland that affected availability for the final two rounds of the Championship. He also complained about the mooted 2024 schedule, which will further marginalise the first-class game, urging the governing body…

Hanuma Vihari has been named captain of Rest of India for the Irani Cup against Ranji champions Saurashtra beginning October 1 in Rajkot. Abhimanyu Easwaran, who made 798 runs in the Ranji season, misses out as he’s recovering from typhoid. The other surprise miss is Kerala allrounder Jalaj Saxena, who topped the wickets chart with 50 scalps. With several India A players away with the national team at the Asian…