Middlesex 128 for 1 (Fernandes 65*) trail Northamptonshire 552 for 6 dec (Gay 261, Sales 113*) by 424 runs Emilio Gay and James Sales both set new landmarks as Northamptonshire continued to dominate on day two of their Vitality County Championship clash with Middlesex at Wantage Road. First-day centurion Gay forged on to post 261 – the highest-ever individual Championship score for the county against Middlesex – while Sales, brought…
Kent 245 for 1 (Bell-Drummond 134*, Compton 100*) trail Essex 530 for 7 dec (Critchley 151*, Elgar 120, Cox 67) by 285 runs Daniel Bell-Drummond hit a second successive Vitality County Championship century to continue the run-fest on a benign Chelmsford pitch where only two wickets fell all day. The Kent captain reached three figures against Somerset at Canterbury last week, and helped his side fight back with a second…
Delhi Capitals allrounder Mitchell Marsh has returned to Australia to treat the partial tear in his right hamstring. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Marsh, who is set to be named Australia’s captain for the T20 World Cup, was recalled by Cricket Australia after coordination with the franchise. Marsh did not feature for the Capitals in their last two matches, against Mumbai Indians on April 7 and Friday’s outing against Lucknow Super…
Match details Mumbai Indians (P5 W2 L3 7th) vs Chennai Super Kings (P5 W3 L2 3rd)Mumbai, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT) Big picture It’s the IPL’s biggest rivalry. At the Wankhede Stadium. On a double-header Sunday. But has the rivalry mellowed down this time? Possibly because it’s the first time in over a decade the CSK-Mumbai game will not witness Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni as captains, as Hardik Pandya and…
Dipendra Singh Airee, Nepal’s big-hitting finisher, entered the record books as the third man to hit six sixes in an over in an international T20 game, achieving the feat in the last over against Qatar in their ACC Men’s Premier Cup match in Al Amerat on Saturday. Starting the over on 28 off 15 balls, with Nepal on 174 for 7, Airee smashed medium pacer Kamran Khan for sixes off…
Match details Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)Kolkata, 3.30pm IST (10am GMT) Big picture – KKR’s home run Which IPL team has their headquarters only six kilometres from Eden Gardens? If you’re thinking Kolkata Knight Riders, that’s wrong. That honour belongs to Lucknow Super Giants, whose owners are based in Kolkata. They have a majority stake in another local team with a strong fan base – Mohun…
Hampshire 305 for 6 (Prest 85, Dawson 61*, Vince 56, Gubbins 50) vs Lancashire Tom Prest suggested 2024 will be his breakthrough season by scoring an impeccable 85 as Hampshire edged day one of their Vitality County Championship clash with Lancashire. Former England under-19 captain Prest hinted at his first-class talents with his maiden ton towards the end of last season and opened his account this year with a high-quality…
Derbyshire 46 for 1 trail Glamorgan 237 (Thomson 7-65) by 191 runs A career-best bowling performance from Alex Thomson led the way for Derbyshire on the first day of the Vitality County Championship match against Glamorgan in Cardiff. Glamorgan managed 237 all out as Thomson claimed seven wickets to justify Derbyshire’s decision to put Glamorgan into bat on a sunny day. Glamorgan’s top scorer was Kiran Carlson who made 74…
Surrey 42 for 0 trail Somerset 285 (Lammonby 100, Renshaw 87, Gregory 50, Steel 4-50, Atkinson 3-57) by 243 runs The only trouble with exponential growth is the knowledge that it cannot last forever. After his rapid rise in 2023, Gus Atkinson spent the first three months of this year doing very little of note: flying around India with England’s Test squad, bowling in the nets, kicking footballs and occasionally…
Leicestershire 326 for 8 (Patel 87, Trevaskis 82*, Handscomb 51) vs Sussex Having lost the toss, Leicestershire will be the more satisfied with the position of the match after finishing on 326 for eight on day one of their Division Two match against Sussex in the Vitality County Championship. Three Leicestershire batters made half-centuries, 2023 county player-of-the-year Rishi Patel hitting 12 fours and two sixes in a fluid 87. Australia’s…