Gloucestershire 417 and 81 for 6 (Seales 2-12, Robinson 2-32) lead Sussex 479 (Pujara 86, Alsop 84, Lamb 83, Simpson 79) by 19 runs Ollie Robinson took two wickets in three balls as Sussex put themselves in a strong position to claim their first win of the season in the Vitality County Championship. Having bowled 27 wicketless overs in the match, Robinson was finally rewarded when he pinned Cameron Bancroft…
Warwickshire 455 (Dawson 5-146) and 46 for 0 (Davies 34*) lead Hampshire 365 (Gubbins 119, Middleton 116) by 136 runs Fletcha Middleton celebrated his maiden Vitality County Championship century but Hampshire and Warwickshire look likely to draw at Utilita Bowl. Homegrown Middleton, impressive in last season’s Metro Bank One Day Cup, amassed 116, having put on 213 runs for the second wicket with fellow centurion Nick Gubbins. An afternoon collapse…
Nottinghamshire 193 and 418 for 2 (Clarke 209*, Young 156*) lead Somerset 454 (Overton 95*, Pretorius 77, Banton 83, Dickson 72) by 157 runs Joe Clarke and Will Young broke a Nottinghamshire record stretching back 121 years with an unbroken third-wicket stand of 370 to transform the Vitality County Championship match against Somerset at Taunton. The pair batted for all but ten minutes of the third day, coming together with…
Durham 244 and 397 for 5 dec (Bedingham 138, Borthwick 75, Robinson 67*, Clark 50*) beat Worcestershire 184 (Libby 61, Potts 3-40) and 272 (Libby 50, Coughlin 4-45, Potts 2-57) by 185 runs Durham are celebrating their first victory of the season after defeating Worcestershire by 185 runs with a day to spare in the Vitality County Championship encounter at Kidderminster. Worcestershire were set a demanding 458 target but any…
Middlesex 246 (du Plooy 51, De Caires 50, Thompson 5-80) and 158 for 4 (du Plooy 42, Holden 35, Higgins 33*) beat Yorkshire 159 (Higgins 4-31) and 244 (Hill 75, Higgins 3-41, Roland-Jones 3-78) by 6 wickets Leus Du Plooy and Ryan Higgins steered Middlesex to six-wicket victory over Vitality County Championship Division Two favourites Yorkshire on an absorbing day three at Lord’s. Hungarian citizen Du Plooy and the Zimbabwean-born…
Faf du Plessis praised his team’s “fight” but said that sometimes, in key moments, you need the clarity and confidence you get from winning, and that’s where Royal Challengers Bengaluru fell short in their nail-biting one-run defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders. Chasing 223, RCB were well set at 137 for 2 after 11 overs, with Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar‘s 102-run stand keeping them ahead in the game despite losing…
Middlesex are weighing up their options for a future away from Lord’s, their county home for the past 160 years, amid growing concerns about the club’s lack of first-class infrastructure. However, chief executive Andrew Cornish believes that the ground would still have a duty to serve the needs of North London’s cricket community, and should even be open to the prospect of hosting two Hundred teams in the future. Middlesex…
Kolkata Knight Riders 222 for 6 (Shreyas 50, Salt 48, Green 2-35) beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru 221 (Jacks 55, Patidar 52, Russell 3-25 by one run Mitchell Starc had 20 runs to defend with and he nearly didn’t. In the course of six balls, he exemplified just how difficult it is to be a bowler in T20 cricket, and how he will always fly in the face of it. Having…
19.1 Starc to Karn, SIX runs Tonks it for six! Would you believe it? Starc the bowler, Karn the batter. And he starts the over with a six. Full and wide outside off, he slices it over deep backward point. 19.2 Starc to Karn, no run Was there an edge? Starc thinks so, Salt joins in belatedly, and KKR review. Full and wide outside off, 140.4kph, Karn looks to go…
Toss New Zealand chose to field first against Pakistan New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first in the third T20 international against Pakistan. Twenty four hours after Pakistan swept New Zealand aside after bowling them out for 90, the visitors elected to let Pakistan set a target instead. New Zealand were hampered by the unavailability of Josh Clarkson and Ben Lister, who did not travel to the…