Month: September 2024

Warwickshire 112 for 4 (Davies 58) trail Worcestershire 307 (D’Oliveira 76, Waite 53) by 195 runs Warwickshire captain Alex Davies became the first player to score 1,000 runs in Division One of the Vitality County Championship this summer on a severely truncated second day against local rivals Worcestershire at Visit Worcestershire New Road. The 30-year-old began his innings needing a further 34 and turned Logan van Beek square of the…

Surrey 169 for 3 (Patel 61*, Geddes 50, Vaughan) trail Somerset 317 (Banton 132, Shakib 4-92) by 148 runs Ryan Patel led a solid Surrey batting effort to defy nearest challengers Somerset on the second day of the top-of-the-table Vitality County Championship First Division clash at Taunton. The 26-year-old all-rounder was unbeaten on 61 in a first innings total of 169 for three when rain ended play for the day…

Big Picture Ready for some more England vs Australia? Whatever your answer may be, there’s plenty through the rest of this month with eight matches in 18 days starting with the first of three T20Is in Southampton. And from the paying punters’ point of view, the late-season action is proving popular with five of the games sold out after a Sri Lanka Test series where the less-than-crammed stands on some…

Leicestershire 98 (Cox 51*, Coad 5-15) and 35 for 2 trail Yorkshire 379 (Tattersall 126, Fisher 88, Scriven 4-103) by 246 runs Yorkshire remain on course for a victory that they believe may be enough to realise their promotion ambitions despite bad weather washing out more than half of the second day of their Vitality County Championship match at Leicester. Leicestershire will resume on day three at 35 for two…

Bangladesh are about to embark on another away tour on the back of their remarkable 2-0 victory over Pakistan earlier this month and are already deep in preparation for it. They will be visiting India for two Tests starting next week and one of their heroes from Rawalpindi, Litton Das, has revealed that the team has been trying to get used to the way SG balls behave. This is a…

Brydon Carse could be in line for a Test debut, just weeks after serving a ban for betting irregularities, while Jack Leach is back in England’s plans for the first time since the tour of India in February, after the selectors named a 17-man squad for their three-match series against Pakistan, which gets underway next month. Carse, 29, is one of six frontline fast bowlers in England’s squad, alongside the…

With 12 series (30 Tests) to go in the current World Test Championship cycle, the race for the top two spots is getting more intense. Going by the percentage scores of the finalists in the last cycle – 66.67 for Australia and 58.8 for India – teams will be looking to get to the 60% mark to give themselves a shot at the Lord’s final. Here is a look at…

Sri Lanka’s most-famed England victory may still be their Oval win from 1998, but the team that won the third Test of their 2024 tour on Monday did it in tougher conditions. This is what Sanath Jayasuriya believes, and he would know. Jayasuriya was one of the architects of the 1998 victory, crashing 213 runs off 278 balls in the first innings, clubbing 24 not out off 17 in the…

The second day of the only Test between Afghanistan and New Zealand suffered the same fate as the first due to rains in Greater Noida, albeit not during hours of play, and the quality of the outfield. The toss was scheduled at 9am local time, with play slated to start 30 minutes in advance to compensate for play being abandoned yesterday. But at 8.55am came the announcement that the toss…

New Zealand will be boosted by the return of fast bowler Rosemary Mair for the women’s T20 World Cup 2024, after she suffered a back injury during their home series against England in March. Meanwhile, their captain Sophie Devine and Suzie Bates are set to play their ninth T20 World Cup when the competition begins in the UAE in October. This means the two would have played in every edition…