Month: April 2024

Pat Cummins and Nat Sciver-Brunt have been named as the Leading Cricketers in the World in the 2024 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, published on Tuesday. Cummins, Australia’s fast-bowling spearhead and captain across formats, guided his side to victory over India in both the ICC World Test Championship at The Oval in June, and the 50-over World Cup in Ahmedabad in November. He also oversaw his side’s successful defence of…

Gloucestershire’s viability as a first-class county has been cast into renewed doubt after the club reported a loss of £1.19 million in their annual accounts, published on Monday, which is more than twice the shortfall of £570,000 that they accrued in 2022-23. In her report, Gloucestershire’s Treasurer Rebecca Watkin insisted that the club’s outlook for 2024 and 2025 was more positive, but blamed the current situation on the cost-of-living crisis…

After losing their fifth game in a row, this time out-hit at the Chinnaswamy as Sunrisers Hyderabad’s smashed a record 287 for 3, Royal Challengers Bengaluru captain Faf du Plessis admitted that such results could take a mental toll. Even though RCB scored an impressive 262 for 7 in response, the runs conceded in the first innings were simply too many to overhaul, and he put it down to a…

Essex 530 for 7 dec (Critchley 151*, Elgar 120, Cox 67) and 257 for 4 dec (Cox 116*) drew with Kent 413 (Compton 165, Bell-Drummond 135, Critchley 5-105) and 164 for 7 (Jaydn Denly 41*, Porter 4-20) A combination of Kent’s 18-year-old debutant Jaydn Denly and bad weather scuppered Essex’s hopes of recording back-to-back County Championship wins. The all-rounder joined forces with uncle Joe in a sixth-wicket stand that took…

Surrey 428 (Sibley 100, Burns 75, Foakes 57, Smith 51, Aldridge 5-64) and 123 for 5 (Lawrence 53*) drew with Somerset 285 (Lammonby 100, Renshaw 87, Gregory 50, Steel 4-50) and 351 (Gregory 80, Goldsworthy 58, Overton 52*, Lammonby 51, Steel 5-96) There are nearly 5,000 miles between The Oval and the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium and while one venue was packed out on Monday evening, the other was almost empty….

Worcestershire County Cricket Club has confirmed they will explore a permanent move away from New Road in the coming months in a bid to preserve the long-term future of the county. New Road, which has been Worcestershire’s home ground since 1899, is built on a floodplain which relieves the River Severn, causing floods which have consistently affected their season. The ground flooded seven times over the 2023-24 winter, resulting in…

Sunrisers Hyderabad 287 for 3 (Head 102, Klaasen 67, Ferguson 2-52) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 262 for 7 (Karthik 83, du Plessis 62, Cummins 3-43) by 25 runs Sunrisers Hyderabad showed how merciless modern T20 batting can look, obliterating the record they had themselves set earlier this season to post 287 for 3, the highest total in the IPL. Travis Head, who has won Australia the World Test Championship and…

Gloucestershire 263 (Bancroft 70, Charlesworth 52*) and 405 for 6 (Price 147, Bracey 102, van Buuren 51*) drew with Yorkshire 326 (Masood 140, Akhter 5-89) and 434 for 6 dec (Lyth 113, Bean 73, Brook 68, Hill 58, Root 51) Ollie Price‘s career-best 147 and a century from James Bracey helped Gloucestershire to an unlikely draw on the final day of the Vitality County Championship match with Yorkshire at the…

Derbyshire 198 (Madsen 68, Lloyd 60, Crane 4-60) and 225 for 3 (Reece 91*, Guest 72*) drew with Glamorgan 237 (Carlson 74, Thomson 7-65) and 361 for 7 dec (Cooke 126*, Harris 61*, Ingram 51, Thomson 5-136) The Vitality County Championship match between Glamorgan and Derbyshire finished as a draw as a superb stand between Luis Reece and Brooke Guest guided their team to safety. Derbyshire had an improbable target…

After helping Sunrisers Hyderabad amass 287 for 3 with a 39-ball century and break the IPL record for highest total for the second time this season, opener Travis Head said his side would fancy targeting a 300 score as their next challenge. He also credited the captain Pat Cummins and head coach Daniel Vettori for pushing the openers to keep being aggressive in the first six overs. “Our scores need…