Rovman Powell‘s Barbados Royals, one of two as yet unbeaten teams in CPL 2024 along with defending champions Guyana Amazon Warriors, will be at full strength for their home leg, which kicks off against Antigua and Barbuda Falcons in Bridgetown on September 11. The South African pair of David Miller and Keshav Maharaj has linked up with the side while batter Alick Athanaze has recovered from the finger injury that…
After the successful staging of the first Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup last year, another major tournament is set to appear on the women’s junior cricket calendar. The Asian Cricket Council has announced the launch of the Women’s Under-19 T20 Asia Cup, a tournament that is set to be staged bienially to help Asian teams prepare for the Under-19 World Cup. The ACC announced the launch of the tournament during…
Khaled Mahmud has resigned from his position as a BCB director on Wednesday. BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury confirmed the development. Mahmud, a former Bangladesh captain, becomes the latest board director to move on after Jalal Yunus and Naimur Rahman resigned over the past few weeks, and Ahmed Sajjadul Alam was removed from the post. Mahmud is understood to have informed the board through an email, bringing an end to his…
The Cricket Regulator has spared Gloucestershire punishment for an alleged breach of pitch regulations after their Vitality County Championship Division Two match against Northamptonshire was called off on day one, with umpires concerned over player safety on a hybrid pitch. The fixture, which took place in Bristol at the end of August, was abandoned after just 65.1 overs with umpires Chris Watts and Sue Redfern stopping the match in the…
Rain took the attention away from the state of the outfield at the Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground on Day 3 of the one-off Test between Afghanistan and New Zealand, as play was called off as early as 9.15am local time. With the first two days of the Test already abandoned, the chances of a result are extremely thin. The last time the first three days of a Test were…
Several slushy pockets in the Greater Noida Sports Complex ground along with drainage that has been overwhelmed by constant rainfall have prevented the one-off Test between Afghanistan and New Zealand from taking off. For the second straight day, there was no play possible, not even a toss, and there is growing fear that the entire game might be wiped out. On Tuesday, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) acknowledged that the…
Durham 367 for 4 (Bedingham 177*, Ackermann 111*) lead Lancashire 228 (Hurst 90, Bohannon 49, Raine 5-44) by 139 runs David Bedingham made his third Championship century of the season against Lancashire and also passed a thousand first-class runs for this campaign to help Durham take control of their Vitality County Championship match at Chester-le-Street. Having restricted Lancashire to 228 all out in their first innings, the home side were…
Kent 64 for 5 (Compton 24*, Abbott 3-23) trail Hampshire 403 (Prest 102, Vince 88, Wheal 61) by 339 runs Kent’s Division One status is dangling by a thread after a dismal second day against Hampshire in the Vitality County Championship at Canterbury. The hosts slumped to 64 for 5 for in reply to Hampshire’s first innings total of 403, with Kyle Abbott claiming 3 for 23. What had looked…
Northamptonshire 219 (Zaib 90, Andersson 2-28) and 178 for 5 (Keogh 46*, Miller 42, Sales 40) lead Derbyshire 165 (Reece 50, Madsen 47, Chahal 5-45) by 232 runs Indian leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal claimed five wickets as Northamptonshire ran through Derbyshire’s batting line-up on a day dominated by spin at Wantage Road before Northamptonshire’s batters put the hosts in the ascendancy. Chahal, veteran of 152 white-ball internationals, finished with figures of…
Nottinghamshire 37 for 1 trail Essex 457 (Westley 122, Pepper 115, Walter 72, Harmer 51) by 420 runs Michael Pepper continued a rich vein of form that has now brought him centuries in successive Vitality County Championship matches to sit alongside two T20 Blast centuries as he helped Essex tightened their stranglehold over Nottinghamshire. The wicketkeeper-batsman’s 115 from 147 balls eclipsed his previous best score against Worcestershire last week by…