Sussex 187 for 9 (Alsop 84*, Hughes 53, Revis 3-37) vs Yorkshire Yorkshire enjoyed the better of a hard-fought opening day of their Vitality County Championship promotion battle with Division Two leaders Sussex at Scarborough, though potentially not by much. Sussex came into this 10th-round Division Two affair top of the table with six wins and Yorkshire third with two. The gap between the two sides was 27 points, and…
Durham 393 for 5 (Lees 145, McKinney 121, Turner 62*) vs Nottinghamshire A magnificent maiden first-class century from Ben McKinney and a dogged hundred from Alex Lees put Durham in a dominant position on day one of their Vitality County Championship clash with Nottinghamshire. McKinney, who is playing in just his second County Championship match, smashed an experienced Notts bowling attack around the park at the Seat Unique Riverside after…
Surrey 83 for 0 (Burns 44*, Sibley 37*) trail Lancashire 204 (Hurst 46, Clark 4-57) by 121 runs Rocky Flintoff made a creditable 32 on debut, as Lancashire’s youngest first-class cricketer at the age of 16 years and 137 days, but it was champions Surrey who ruthlessly took first-day honours at the Kia Oval. Put in, Lancashire were bowled out for 204 inside 59 overs, with no one making it…
Tea England 176 for 4 (Brook 53*, Smith 22*) trail Sri Lanka 236 (de Silva 74, Rathnayake 72, Woakes 3-32) by 60 runs Asitha Fernando continued Sri Lanka’s spirited display in the first Test at Emirates Old Trafford, claiming three key wickets in an extended afternoon session as England were made to fight for the ascendancy after an extended rain delay. By tea, Harry Brook’s fighting half-century, in a fifth-wicket…
There will be no meaningful reduction in the volume of men’s county cricket played in 2025, despite more than 80 percent of players reporting fears for their physical health due to the busy schedule. A Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) survey at the start of this season found that the majority of players believe the schedule is not fit for purpose, but the only changes for next season will be cosmetic….
England have announced their fixtures for next season, with the men’s and women’s teams taking on India during concurrent series in the middle of summer. The ECB has also confirmed that Lord’s will host its first women’s Test when India return for a one-off game in 2026. The 2025 season will see a joint visit by West Indies men’s and women’s teams, while England Men will face Zimbabwe in a…
Former Australia opening batter Matthew Hayden is against the idea of Steven Smith playing as a Test opener. Hayden believes Smith should bat where he has scored most of his runs, suggesting moving him to a “completely different position” is “crazy”. Hayden, Australia’s most prolific opener in Tests before David Warner went past him in December 2023, believes that the top three positions need to be “protected” in Test cricket….
India A 100 for 2 (Sehrawat 40*, Hasabnis 31*, Brown 1/6) trail Australia A 212 (Voll 71, Parsons 35, Mani 5-58, Mishra 4-58) by 112 runs Spinners Minnu Mani and Priya Mishra shared nine wickets between them to help India A bundle out Australia A for 212 on the opening day of the four-day match in Gold Coast. After opting to bat, Australia A were reduced to 144 for 8…
In his first press conference as the BCB president, Faruque Ahmed has reiterated that Chandika Hathurusinghe should no longer continue as Bangladesh’s head coach. He had expressed the same view earlier this week as well, before taking up the BCB job. “I am yet to find out about Chandika Hathurusinghe’s contract. I have to see some stuff officially but I have not moved from my previous stance,” Faruque said on…
Lunch Pakistan 256 for 4 (Rizwan 89*, Shakeel 86*) vs Bangladesh Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan batted through a wicketless session and extended their overnight partnership from 44 to 142, easing Pakistan past the 250 mark as the Rawalpindi Test took an attritional turn on the morning of day two. Conditions were far more amenable to batting than they had been at the start of the match, when Bangladesh had…