Month: September 2024

Surrey 267 for 7 (Sibley 125) drew with Essex 508 for 8 dec (Elgar 182, Westley 135, Critchley 112) Dom Sibley batted for more than four hours for his third century of the season to ensure there was no last-day embarrassment before Surrey lifted aloft the Vitality County Championship trophy following an attritional draw at Chelmsford. Surrey savoured the traditional champagne-spraying celebrations for the third successive year after a season…

South Africa opt to bowl v Ireland Ireland and South Africa made a change apiece to their bowling attacks for the second T20I in Abu Dhabi. After Friday’s night high-scoring game on a surface with decent bounce and carry and significant grass, the two teams have adjusted their seam combination. Graham Hume replaced Craig Young in Ireland’s XI while South Africa included Lungi Ngidi at Ottneil Baartman’s expense. The teams…

New Zealand may have lost both Tests – the second particularly badly, by an innings and 154 runs – but a closer look at how the games panned out probably shows a picture not as dire as first imagined. In the first Test, they ran Sri Lanka closer than most, falling short in the chase as they lost by 68 runs. There they also had Sri Lanka on the ropes…

Warwickshire 373 for 7 (Hain 153*) drew with Nottinghamshire 487 (Verreynne 148*, McCann 130) With all potential relegation permutations happily off the agenda at last, Warwickshire calmly settled down to avoiding defeat against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge on the final day of the 2024 Vitality County Championship. Saving the follow-on with five wickets down effectively saved the game. The draw, for which the pitch was probably intended from the start,…

Worcestershire 180 (Waite 60, van Beek 48, Phillip 5-65, Bailey 3-22) and 223 for 9 (van Beek 44, Hose 41, Phillip 4-77) drew with Lancashire 177 (Waite 3-38) Worcestershire sealed their highest position in the Vitality County Championship since it was split into two divisions in 2000 after drawing with relegated Lancashire at Visit Worcestershire New Road. They secured sixth spot in Division One after recovering for the second time…

Sri Lanka’s dominant series win against New Zealand has been one to savour not just for the way they won the second Test but also because it allows, even fleetingly, for them to ponder the prospect of a World Test Championship [WTC] final berth next year. As things stand Sri Lanka are placed third behind Australia and India on the WTC points table, but only 6.94 percentage points behind second-placed…

Australia have been dealt a potential injury concern heading into their title defence at the Women’s T20 World Cup in the UAE, with batter Phoebe Litchfield being ruled out of the warm-up games with groin soreness. The news came in ahead of Australia’s first warm-up, against England in Dubai on September 29. Grace Harris, who has not played competitive cricket since April 2024 because of calf strains in both legs,…

Bangladesh’s selectors have recalled Mehidy Hasan Miraz to the T20I squad for the three-match series against India starting next week. Mehidy played the last of his 25 T20Is in July last year, missing Bangladesh’s last 24 matches in that format while being a key allrounder in the two longer formats. Related Shakib says he’s done with T20Is, will play his final Test next month Mayank Yadav called up as India…

Sixteen years after acquiring land from the Karnataka government to expand their cricketing infrastructure, the BCCI on Friday inaugurated its new state-of-the-art National Cricket Academy, which will be known as the ‘Centre of Excellence’, on the outskirts of Bengaluru. BCCI president Roger Binny and secretary Jay Shah unveiled the facility to the officer bearers, which when fully functional from early 2025, will take over as board’s primary centre for training,…

The restructured selection committee for the Pakistan men’s side has been pared down further, with Mohammad Yousuf announcing his resignation from the role. Yousuf, who was one of five remaining voting members on the committee, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he was quitting for “personal reasons”. “Serving this incredible team has been a profound privilege, and I am proud to have contributed to the growth and…