Surrey 296 for 6 (Sibley 105, Patel 72, Geddes 61) beat Leicestershire 279 (Budinger 70, Scriven 55, Steel 3-48) by 17 runs In-form Dom Sibley‘s second hundred in three matches spurred Surrey to end a run of five straight defeats with their first Metro Bank One-Day Cup victory of the season, dealing a blow to Leicestershire’s hopes of qualifying for the knock-out stages. Sibley followed his 149 against Warwickshire and…
Yorkshire 244 for 7 (Wharton 73, Masood 58, Bess 53) beat Essex 243 for 9 (Benkenstein 68, Das 67, Coad 3-41, Cliff 3-54) by three wickets A nerveless List A career best of 53 not out from Dom Bess guided Yorkshire to a crucial win in a rollercoaster Metro Bank One-Day Cup clash with Essex as they chased 244 to win by three wickets at Scarborough and maintain their qualification…
Oval Invincibles 164 for 8 (S Curran 68, Jacks 41) beat Manchester Originals 161 for 7 (Hurst 50, Curran 2-16, Zampa 2-30, ) by three runs Sam Curran held his nerve to again be Oval Invincibles’ match-winner in a last-ball thriller against Manchester Originals at Emirates Old Trafford. The England allrounder conceded just three runs from the final five balls of the game as Invincibles snatched victory by just three…
Northern Superchargers 115 for 5 (Davidson-Richards 49*, Sutherland 30) beat Birmingham Phoenix 54 (Wareham 3-12, Smith 3-12) by 61 runs Northern Superchargers solidified their place in the top three of The Hundred women’s competition table with another dominant win, this time away at Birmingham Phoenix. Superchargers drew level on points with second-placed Oval Invincibles, as they bowled out Phoenix for just 54 runs, the lowest score ever in The Hundred…
An India-Sri Lanka bilateral series in which India are the team scrambling to prove themselves? Wow. It has been a while. In fact, India have not lost a bilateral series between these teams since 1997. The outcomes of the last two matches are especially surprising given the pummelings India had handed out in these teams’ last two meetings – dismissing Sri Lanka for 50 in the Asia Cup final, and…
Big picture: Where has the competition gone? A rivalry that started with intensity in a one-off Test in 1992 has fizzled out into a one-sided affair with South Africa victorious in 22 out of 32 matches against West Indies, and vanquished in just three. They have never lost a Test series (the emphasis being on multiple matches in a tour) to West Indies, and last lost a match to them…
Oval Invincibles 127 for 3 (Scholfield 48*, Athapaththu 33) beat Manchester Originals 125 for 4 (Wolvaardt 38) by seven wickets Oval Invincibles returned to winning ways with a comfortable seven-wicket win over Manchester Originals in the Women’s Hundred at Emirates Old Trafford. An unbeaten 67-run stand between Paige Scholfield and Marizanne Kapp from 37 balls took charge of the run chase after the hosts managed 125 for 4. In-form Scholfield…
Big picture – The ODI learning curve And they said the middle overs in an ODI are dull. India and Sri Lanka are playing a series where all of the action is contained in the exact period where the 50-over format tends to be dull. And that’s largely because they have been playing these games – the first of which ended in a tie – on pitches that challenge a…
Ryan Harris has been named South Australia’s new men’s head coach, filling the role vacated by Jason Gillespie’s departure earlier this year. Harris, who began his playing career with the state, has been leading the men’s programme in an interim capacity over the last few months while the role was recruited for and will take over full-time immediately as pre-season ramps up. Related The balls of the century, No. 1:…
Jhye Richardson is in line to play his first game in Australia since January over the next few weeks after being included as part of Perth Scorchers’ squad for the Top End T20 tournament in Darwin. Richardson is the most notable inclusion in the Scorchers’ group which is largely made up of younger players on the fringes of the BBL and Western Australia sides plus some from the WA academy….