Vipers 261 for 8 (Adams 82, McCaughan 47, Hall 4-46) beat Northern Diamonds 258 for 5 (Armitage 106*) by three runs Georgia Adams starred with bat and ball as the Southern Vipers defeated the Northern Diamonds by three runs in a pulsating finish to an entertaining Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy game at South Northumberland Cricket Club. Adams made 82 as the Vipers set a challenging total of 261 for eight…
Northamptonshire 232 and 211 for 5 trail Lancashire 524 (Bohannon 175, Balderson 115, Bailey 77, White 4-99) by 81 runs George Balderson scored a superb 115, his second Championship century, as Lancashire assumed complete dominance over Northamptonshire on day three of this LV= Insurance County Championship match. The innings continues an excellent breakout season for Balderson, who scored his maiden ton against Warwickshire in July and is currently averaging in…
Derbyshire 247 (Madsen 93, Wagstaff 52, Thompson 3-48, Fisher 3-54) and 65 for 1 (Came 33*, Guest 16*) need 506 runs to beat Yorkshire 297 and 520 for 9 dec (Revis 106, Masood 86, Hill 79, Bean 64, Thompson 64) Yorkshire set Derbyshire a completely out-of-the-question target of 571 to win the ongoing LV= Insurance County Championship match at Scarborough, which heads into its final day tomorrow. The home side…
Blaze 193 for 7 (Sciver-Brunt 66*, Lee 40) beat Central Sparks 189 (Ellis 53, George 50, Groves 3-39) by 3 wickets The Blaze fought off closest pursuers Central Sparks in an engrossing match at Edgbaston to record a three-wicket win and strengthen their position at the top of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy table. The league leaders bowled Sparks out for 189 as only Bethan Ellis (53) and Katie George…
Essex 304 (Browne 59, Cook 58, De Caires 8-106) and 104 for 1 (A Cook 448) lead Middlesex 179 (Porter 6-34) by 229 runs The harder that Essex toil to keep pace in this title race, the further adrift of Surrey’s rampant frontrunners they seem to end up being. Barely 15 minutes were on the clock at Chelmsford when word drifted up the A12 that Warwickshire had lost their fourth…
Worcestershire 284 and 145 (McIlroy 5-34) beat Glamorgan 170 (van Beek 4-42, Pennington 3-43) and 179 (Root 84*, van Beek 4-46) Worcestershire strengthened their grip on second place in Division Two of the LV=Insurance County Championship as they defeated promotion rivals Glamorgan by 80 runs at New Road. Their fifth victory of the campaign was wrapped up with more than a day to spare as their opponents suffered a first…
Sunrisers 144 for 6 (Villiers 29) beat Western Storm 143 (Corney 34, Grewcock 3-24, Coppack 3-26) by four wickets Sunrisers’ ruthless bowling paved the way for them to climb off the foot of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy table after overcoming Western Storm by four wickets at Radlett. Kate Coppack‘s early three-wicket burst reduced Storm to 18 for 4 after seven overs and, although Emma Corney‘s 34 improved their fortunes,…
Thunder 147 for 4 (Lamb 50) beat South East Stars 145 (Schofield 38, Bell 4-23, Morris 3-33) by six wickets Olivia Bell and Fi Morris produced spin wizardry as Thunder crushed hosts SE Stars by six wickets at Guildford to keep alive their hopes of a place in the end-of-season play-off. Bell bowled with great flight and revs to extract sharp turn from the Woodbridge Road wicket in taking 4…
Leicestershire 204 (Patel 73, Akhter 4-46) and 168 for 2 (Ackermann 93*, Hill 62*) beat Gloucestershire 159 (Dent 51, Scriven 4-30) and 212 (Mulder 4-61, Scriven 3-43) by eight wickets Leicestershire kept themselves in the hunt for promotion from Division Two, closing out a three-day win over Gloucestershire by mid-afternoon, an unbroken partnership of 161 between Colin Ackermann and skipper Lewis Hill guiding them home by an impressive eight-wicket margin….
Big picture: Teams share complicated relationship Talk of rivalries has dominated the Asia Cup. India-Pakistan. Pakistan-Afghanistan. The Naagin derby. Heck, you could even throw in the Rohit derby. Here’s another sizzling rivalry to kick off the Super Four stage. Pakistan and Bangladesh have endured a long and complicated relationship on and off the field, and Wednesday will be their first ODI meeting since the 2019 World Cup. It was against…