Month: August 2024

Surrey 339 for 5 (Burns 161, Patel 77, Jacks 59) vs Nottinghamshire Rory Burns followed his double-hundred against Lancashire last week with 161 as champions-elect Surrey ended day one of their Vitality County Championship match against Nottinghamshire on 339 for 5. But by the close of proceedings at Trent Bridge, the Surrey skipper found himself pushed out of the spotlight by 16-year-old offspinner Farhan Ahmed, who not only claimed the…

Hampshire 330 for 9 (Middleton 109, Gubbins 75, Dawson 46*) vs Lancashire Hampshire’s Fletcha Middleton made his second century of the season but his team could do no better that share the spoils with relegation-threatened Lancashire on the first day of their Vitality County Championship match at Emirates Old Trafford. Middleton made 109 and shared a second-wicket partnership of 151 with Nick Gubbins, only for the home side to take…

Sussex 391 for 4 (Hughes 144, Haines 72, Alsop 69*) vs Derbyshire Australian Daniel Hughes made 144 as second division leaders Sussex established a strong position after day one against Derbyshire at Hove. Derbyshire elected to bowl first then saw Hughes and Tom Haines put on 196 in just 36 overs. Haines made 72 and after Hughes departed Tom Alsop hit an unbeaten 69 as Sussex closed on 391 for…

Warwickshire 207 for 3 (Rhodes 82*) lead Kent156 (Compton 70, Cohen 3-13, Hannon-Dalby 3-31, Rushworth 3-43) by 51 runs Kent’s lurch towards Vitality Championship relegation continued as they were bowled out for 156 by Warwickshire on the opening day of their Division One battle at Edgbaston. Having collected just nine batting points from ten games, Kent were skittled in just 39.5 overs by the seamers before the home side eased…

Northamptonshire 116 for 2 vs Gloucestershire 125 (O Price 52, Broad 7-33) – match abandoned The Vitality County Championship Second Division match between Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire was abandoned owing to concerns from the umpires over player safety on a hybrid pitch. Umpires Chris Watts and Sue Redfern called a halt early on in the final session after Northants batters Ricardo Vasconcelos and Rob Keogh had been struck blows on the…

Somerset 395 for 6 (Abell 124, Rew 89*, Banton 73) vs Durham Tom Abell made it back-to-back centuries at Taunton as Somerset ran up 395 for 6 on the opening day of their County Championship match against Durham. Having hit a career-best unbeaten 152 in the previous home game against Warwickshire, Abell scored 124 off 181 balls, with 18 fours, sharing a stand of 185 with Tom Banton (73), which…

Yorkshire 372 for 5 (Bairstow 107*, Lyth 61, Hill 58*, Hollman 3-99) vs Middlesex Jonny Bairstow scored his first first-class century in a little over two years as Yorkshire had much the better of the opening day of their County Championship promotion battle with Middlesex at Headingley. Bairstow, 34, has struggled for form of late and, within the last two months, has been dropped from all England sides. But he…

Barinder Sran, the left-arm fast bowler, has announced his retirement from international and domestic cricket. Sran, 31, represented India in six ODIs and two T20Is between January and June 2016, but had been out of the selection reckoning since then. “As I officially hang up my cricket boots, I look back at my journey with a heart full of gratitude,” Sran wrote on Instagram. “Cricket has gifted me innumerable and…

Two years after unexpectedly announcing her retirement, Deandra Dottin is back in West Indies’ squad for the upcoming women’s T20 World Cup in the UAE. Dottin, the scorer of the fastest century in women’s T20Is, made a sudden decision to quit while leading Barbados in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, citing a “non-conducive” environment within the West Indies set-up. She reversed that decision last month, with one eye on the upcoming…

A finger injury sustained playing in a T10 league in the Cayman Islands has ruled Ravi Bopara out of the T20 Blast’s knockout stages. Bopara is the fifth-highest run-scorer in Blast history and won the competition with Essex, his boyhood club, in 2019. He joined Sussex the following season and signed for Northamptonshire earlier this year on a T20-only contract. He made a significant impact with bat and ball in…