Birmingham Bears 198 for 2 (Mousley 60*, Moeen 59, Hain 52*) beat Derbyshire 154 (Briggs 3-24) by 44 runs Birmingham Bears booked a home quarter-final in the Vitality Blast by comfortably beating Derbyshire Falcons by 44 runs at Edgbaston. A modest start (21 from four overs) turned into a daunting total of which Falcons fell well short at 154 all out from 19.2 overs. No-one passed 30 as spinners Danny…
Gloucestershire 206 for 6 (Taylor 80*, Bancroft 44, Gorvin 3-26) beat Glamorgan 85 (Payne 3-7, Smith 3-33) by 121 runs Jack Taylor blitzed his way to a brilliant unbeaten 80 as Gloucestershire beat neighbours Glamorgan by 121 runs in a one-sided Vitality Blast encounter at Cheltenham. Leading by example, Gloucestershire’s captain smashed 80 from 35 balls with seven sixes and four fours to lift his side to a substantial 206…
Somerset 158 for 1 (Banton 79*, Kohler-Cadmore 43*) beat Hampshire 157 for 7 (Prest 51) by nine wickets Tom Banton‘s destruction of Hampshire put defending champions Somerset within a point of qualifying for the Vitality Blast quarter-finals. Opener Banton whacked an unbeaten 79 off 52 balls in partnerships of 81 and 77 with George Thomas and Tom Kohler-Cadmore to chase down 158 at a canter at Utilita Bowl. Jack Leach…
Shubman Gill believes that captaincy brings the “best out of him” because it brings out a side of him where he really enjoys being out on the field. “It is something that I definitely enjoy,” Gill said about captaincy after leading India to a 4-1 T20I series win over Zimbabwe in Harare. “I think it brings out the best in me when I am out there because I look to…
South East Stars 258 (Smith 84, Davidson-Richards 70, Grewcock 3-34) beat Sunrisers 214 (Gregory 3-47) by 44 runs The South East Stars coasted to a 44-run win over the Sunrisers in the Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy at Beckenham on Sunday. The Stars were bowled out for 258, after an innings dominated by a record-breaking 148-run partnership between Bryony Smith, who made 84, and Alice Davidson-Richards, who hit 70. Jodi Grewcock…
At the age of 35, Chris Woakes is all of a sudden the senior statesman in England’s bowling attack. In consecutive home Tests, at The Oval in 2023 and Lord’s this week, he’s watched Stuart Broad and now James Anderson take their final bow, and so heads to Trent Bridge for next week’s second Test against West Indies knowing he is now the wise old head for a new generation…
Toss Zimbabwe opt to bowl vs India Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza‘s luck with the toss finally changed in the fifth T20I against India in Harare, where he won the coin flip for the first time in the series with a brand-new technique. He said Zimbabwe would bowl first, expecting the pitch to get better for batting later. “Knowing our wickets, I think they’ll keep getting better,” Raza said at the…
Former Pakistan allrounder Billy Ibadulla died on Friday at the age of 88. He played four Tests between 1964 and 1967, and was the first Pakistan batter to score a century on Test debut. However, Ibadulla played only three more Tests, where his best was 32. He picked up one wicket with his offbreak. He was more prolific in first-class cricket, scoring 17,078 runs at 27.28 and picking up 462…
The BCCI has decided to release INR 1 crore for the treatment of former India batter Anshuman Gaekwad, who is battling blood cancer at a medical facility in London. “Mr Jay Shah has instructed the BCCI to release INR 1 crore with immediate effect to provide financial assistance to India’s veteran cricketer Mr Anshuman Gaekwad, who is battling cancer,” the BCCI apex council said in a statement. “Shah has also…
England 104 for 3 (Dunkley 26, Wyatt 26) beat New Zealand 103 for 8 (Gaze 25, Green 24, Glenn 4-19) by seven wickets Sarah Glenn‘s four-wicket haul kept New Zealand winless on their tour of England with one game to play after the hosts sealed victory in the fourth T20I by seven wickets with 51 balls to spare at The Kia Oval. It was the third time leg-spinner Glenn had…