South Africa opt to bowl vs West Indies With the series on the line, Aiden Markram, playing in his 50th T20I, decided South Africa would chase in warm, sunny conditions in Trinidad. South Africa made one change to the XI that lost the opener two days back. They benched left-arm seamer Nandre Burger, whose three overs cost 47 runs on Friday, and gave the right-arm seamer Lizaad Williams a game…
Middlesex 250 for 7 (du Plooy 66*, Robson 58, Sanderson 5-58) and 114 for 2 (Robson 64*) beat Northamptonshire 207 (Gay 42, Sanderson 40, Roland-Jones 5-49) and 167 (Roland-Jones 6-58) by eight wickets Toby Roland-Jones made it 11 wickets in the match as Middlesex beat Northamptonshire by eight wickets at Merchant Taylors’ School to go back to second in the table. The 36-year-old Middlesex skipper added to his 5 for…
Hampshire 424 for 8 dec (Prest 156, Albert 124, Brown 54, Critchley 5-96) drew with Essex 438 for 8 dec (Cox 141, Elgar 136, Westley 64) Centuries from Toby Albert and Tom Prest gave a glimpse of Hampshire’s batting future as their Vitality County Championship clash with Essex petered into a draw. Both homegrown batters in their early 20s, they each scored exceptional hundreds filling in – with Albert playing…
A first loss against Bangladesh left Pakistan with a lot to rue, and captain Shan Masood admitted his side had made “a lot of mistakes” over the Test. After four fairly attritional days where just 17 wickets fell, Bangladesh, spearheaded by spinners Shakib Al Hasan and Mehidy Hasan Miraz, rolled Pakistan over for 146, setting up a 30-run target and sealing a dramatic ten-wicket victory on the final day. “As…
Warwickshire 337 (Yates 69, Burgess 69, Bethell 64, Davey 4-80, Overton 4-88) and 270 (Davies 131, Leach 5-77) drew with Somerset 239 (Aldridge 84, Rew 49, Lammonby 44, Barnard 5-54) and 206 for 4 (Rew 55*) Jack Leach gave England’s selectors a reminder of his skills as Somerset’s Vitality Championship match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston ended in a rain-affected draw. The left-arm spinner has been overlooked by England in favour…
Jos Buttler is targeting Lancashire’s T20 Blast quarter-final at Sussex for his comeback from the calf injury which ruled him out of the Hundred. Buttler, who has not played since the T20 World Cup, has been backed to continue as England’s white-ball captain by managing director Rob Key after Matthew Mott lost his job as head coach. He will work alongside interim coach Marcus Trescothick – his former Somerset team-mate…
Leicestershire 402 (Holland 104, Rehan 60, Scriven 60, Trevaskis 50) and 304 for 5 (Patel 75, Handscomb 63*, Holland 56) drew with Gloucestershire 544 for 4 dec (Charlesworth 210, Bracey 207*) Peter Handscomb‘s rock-sold half-century against his former club foiled a spirited last-day effort by Gloucestershire’s bowlers and earned Leicestershire a comfortable draw from their County Championship Division Two game at Bristol. The experienced Australian made 63 not out as…
Surrey 444 for 9 dec (Burns 227, Foakes 82) beat Lancashire 204 (Clark 4-57) and 177 (Hurst 64, McKerr 4-27, Worrall 3-34, Clark 3-43) by an innings and 63 runs Title favourites Surrey took less than two sessions on day four to bowl out Lancashire for 177 at the Kia Oval to complete an impressive innings-and-63-run victory. Conor McKerr polished off Lancashire’s tail to finish with 4 for 27 while…
Worcestershire 447 (D’Oliveira 97, Roderick 63, Brookes 50, Jordan 5-97) and 102 for 2 (Kashif 52*) beat Kent 171 (Muyeye 56, Leach 6-52) and 376 (Muyeye 211, Taylor 4-99) by eight wickets Worcestershire secured their second successive win in the Vitality County Championship to bolster their hopes of retaining Division One status as they overcame bottom-placed Kent by eight wickets at Visit Worcestershire New Road. Tom Taylor and Joe Leach…
Durham 531 for 7 dec (Lees 145, McKinney 129, Turner 114*, de Leede 79) beat Nottinghamshire 229 (James 56, McCann 51, Wagner 4-68) and 285 (Haynes 69, Slater 53, Hogg 7-66) by an innings and 17 runs A sensational seven-wicket haul from first-class debutant Daniel Hogg propelled Durham to a dominant Vitality County Championship win against Nottinghamshire. Hogg, who already had three second-innings wickets, mopped up the Notts tail on…