Month: June 2024

Northamptonshire 143 for 6 (Breetzke 52, Raza 43, Taylor 2-16) beat Worcestershire 132 for 7 (Brookes 42, Sanderson 3-16) by 11 runs Northamptonshire enhanced their hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the Vitality Blast as they completed a double over Worcestershire with their fourth win in six matches this season. But in contrast a fourth successive defeat has left Worcestershire with an uphill challenge to reach the quarter-finals. As…

South East Stars 89 for 5 (Jones 30*, Glenn 3-14) beat The Blaze 84 (Glenn 21, Stonehouse 3-13) by 5 wickets South East Stars will fancy themselves to lift the Charlotte Edwards Cup for a second time after an emphatic five-wicket victory over erstwhile favourites The Blaze at Derby. Bryony Smith’s 2021 champions shot out the East Midlands team – runners-up last year – for just 84, a first defeat…

Northern Diamonds 146 for 3 (Armitage 97, Wong 1-23) beat Western Storm 118 for 7 (Wilson 42) by 28 runs England hopeful Hollie Armitage hit a fabulous 97 off 64 balls – the highest score in this season’s Charlotte Edwards Cup – as the Northern Diamonds beat Western Storm by 28 runs in a dead-rubber clash at Headingley. A penultimate round group fixture between two regions with only a win…

Central Sparks 99 for 5 (Perrin 26, Jones 26, Smith 2-13) beat Southern Vipers 98 (Southby 19, Ellis 2-11, Potts 2-13, Fackrell 2-13) by 5 wickets Central Sparks defeated Southern Vipers by five wickets in the duel of already-qualified teams in the Charlotte Edwards Cup at New Road, Worcester. With both sides already assured a place in Finals Day at Derby on June 22, Sparks showed their bowling strength in…

Toss India chose to bat vs South Africa India captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and elected to bat in the first of the three ODIs in Bengaluru on Sunday. The hosts handed debut to legspinner S Asha, who made her international debut at 33 in the T20I series against Bangladesh in May. Left-arm spinner Radha Yadav, who returned to the side in Bangladesh, will play her second ODI after…

Match details Netherlands vs Sri LankaGros Islet, 8.30pm local Big picture Well, where do you go from here? For Sri Lanka, safe to say, this is nowhere near where they would have wanted to be, as yet another major ICC tournament goes by with them toiling with little more than pride to play for. This turn of events might rankle even more considering that coming into this tournament there had…

Mitchell Starc accused the media of blowing “a throwaway line” from Josh Hazlewood “right out of proportion” after Australia’s win over Scotland ensured rivals England progress to the Super Eight of the T20 World Cup 2024. Hazlewood suggested earlier this week that it would be in Australia’s “best interests” to eliminate England at the group stage, speculating about a scenario where they could “drag out” their game against Scotland. The…

Netherlands have an outside chance but their net run rate is too low. Nepal, with just one point from three games, are already out of the race. “We are building our story, so I am not thinking about spoiling anyone else’s party,” Desai said. “The message in the dressing room was that we still want to live in a world of imagination, where we want to believe that we crossed…

Australia 186 for 5 (Head 68, Stoinis 59, Watt 2-34) beat Scotland 180 for 5 (McMullen 60, Berrington 42*, Maxwell 2-44) by five wickets Scotland could almost touch a history-making moment. Australia’s asking rate was approaching 13 going into the final seven overs of their chase in what, until then, had been an underwhelming performance. But Marcus Stoinis, with help from Travis Head and later Tim David, shattered their dreams…

Match details Bangladesh vs NepalJune 16, Kingstown, 7.30pm local Big picture: Bangladesh on the cusp of Super Eight The only way Bangladesh can miss out is if they lose big against Nepal, and Netherlands beat Sri Lanka by a big enough margin with that game scheduled an hour after Bangladesh vs Nepal. Bangladesh will fancy sailing through as they have looked like the second-best team in Group D so far….