Southern Brave 169 for 2 (Vince 90*, Pollard 38*, Davies 30) beat Birmingham Phoenix 137 for 9 (Duckett 92, Jordan 3-19, Hosein 3-23) by 32 runs Southern Brave went top of the table after a dramatic Birmingham Phoenix batting collapse at Edgbaston. Chasing 170 after James Vince‘s unbeaten 90, Phoenix were well-placed at 92 for 1 after 49 but then lost 6 for 12 in 25 balls to slip to…
Welsh Fire 131 for 4 (Bryce 51*) beat Trent Rockets 130 for 5 (Sciver-Brunt 37, Gardner 31) by six wickets Welsh Fire made it three wins from four in the Hundred as they beat Trent Rockets – who have now lost three in a row – in a controlled chase with two balls to spare. Rockets skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt won the toss and opted to bat but lost both openers…
At 37, in his first full Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) season, R Ashwin is expanding his range as a batter. He has always been good at finding boundaries down the ground, a skill that Rajasthan Royals leverage when they send him up the order in the IPL in order to provide their finishers a more suitable point of entry. But at this year’s TNPL, Ashwin has been working on…
Wicketkeeper Kaushini Nuthyangana has been included in Sri Lanka’s 16-member squad to tour Ireland later this month, in what is the sole addition to the squad that lifted the Women’s Asia Cup last week. Nuthyangana, who is yet to make her ODI debut, will serve as backup to regular wicketkeeper Anushka Sanjeewani. Talismanic skipper Chamari Athapaththu, meanwhile, will not be available for the T20Is on August 11 and 13, due…
Birmingham Phoenix 137 for 7 (Jones 51) beat Southern Brave 121 (Wyatt 43, Pavely 3-21, Perry 3-21) by 16 runs After losing 12 completed games in a row, Birmingham Phoenix, inspired by captain Ellyse Perry, made it two wins from two by squeezing the life out of Southern Brave to win by 16 runs at Edgbaston. With a hint of rain in the air, Phoenix were put in by Georgia…
Jos Buttler has been ruled out of the Hundred with a calf injury, after missing Manchester Originals’ first three matches. Buttler, who has been backed to continue as England’s white-ball captain by managing director Rob Key, took a short break from the game after the T20 World Cup and is understood to have sustained the injury while preparing for the Hundred. An initial scan was inconclusive, raising hopes he would…
Big picture – More grip and turn at the Khettarama? Where do ODIs sit on world cricket’s priority list? The answer sits right there in India’s schedule: they only have one more ODI series lined up between their current tour of Sri Lanka and the Champions Trophy in February-March 2025. It’s a weird time for bilateral ODIs, then, and weirder still for a series involving Sri Lanka, who haven’t even…
Rishabh Pant, Ishant Sharma, Ayush Badoni and Harshit Rana were among the key picks at the player draft of the inaugural Delhi Premier League (DPL) on Friday. The draft featured 270 players from across Delhi including those who played for India’s senior and Under-19 teams and the IPL. A notable absentee in the player draft was fast bowler Mayank Yadav, who impressed with his pace for Lucknow Super Giants in…
Dunith Wellalage, all of 21, produced an exemplary all-round performance on a tough pitch at Khettarama. Batting at No. 7, he played Sri Lanka’s best innings, hitting 67 not out off 65, in a total of 230 for 8 in the first ODI. When defending, the left-arm spinner took 2 for 39 off nine overs, taking the crucial wicket of Rohit Sharma, who was India’s best batter on the evening,…
Worcestershire 261 for 2 (Roderick 152*, Libby 71*) beat Derbyshire 260 (Came 71, Home 6-51) by eight wickets Derbyshire tasted defeat in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup for the first time this season, as Worcestershire Rapids won by eight wickets at the County Ground. Gareth Roderick scored 152 from 139 balls and shared an unbroken third-wicket stand of 161 from 153 with skipper Jake Libby who made 71 not out…