Month: September 2024

Leicestershire 264 for 8 (Budinger 87, Trevaskis 57) vs Derbyshire After two days lost to the weather, Leicestershire finished on 264 for eight after their season-ending Vitality County Championship with East Midlands neighbours Derbyshire at last saw some action. With Derbyshire’s 17th Championship wooden spoon confirmed by Glamorgan’s victory over Gloucestershire, this match has little at stake beyond local pride, although Leicestershire could overtake Northamptonshire to finish fourth in Division…

Yorkshire 371 for 2 (Wharton 162*, Lyth 147, Sanderson 1-67) lead Northamptonshire 147 (Bartlett 61, Coad 4-51) by 224 runs Adam Lyth and James Wharton scored superb day three centuries against Northamptonshire at Headingley as Yorkshire secured promotion back to Division One of the Vitality County Championship. Yorkshire needed a maximum of 10 points at the start of this final round fixture to seal second place ahead of Middlesex, that…

Surrey 30 for 1 (Burns 16, Harmer 1-10) trail Essex 508 for 8 dec (Elgar 182, Westley 135, Critchley 112) by 478 runs Essex batters Dean Elgar, Tom Westley and Matt Critchley filled their boots with a century apiece as Vitality County champions Surrey suffered a post-title-winning hangover at Chelmsford. The former South African captain, batting ostensibly on one leg, led the way by posting 182, the highest of his…

Glamorgan 381 for 4 dec (Cook 101*, Ingram 84, Taylor 3-71) and forfeit beat Gloucestershire forfeit and 189 (Phillips 64, Gorvin 3-22, Kellaway 3-24) by 192 runs To their credit, opposing skippers Sam Northeast and Graeme van Buuren tried to breathe some life into a game that had lost its first day through rain and came to a gentlemen’s agreement to make it a one innings match – which Glamorgan…

Warwickshire 143 for 4 (Hain 59*) trail Nottinghamshire 487 (Verreynne 148*, McCann 130) by 344 runs With Lancashire all out for 177 in Worcester, both Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire became safe from relegation just before 5pm on the third day of their Vitality County Championship match at Trent Bridge. But a good batting surface is just beginning to take spin and, if the main issue is resolved, this game could yet…

Fast bowler Mayank Yadav, who lit up IPL 2024 with his searing spells of 150kph-plus pace, has earned his maiden India call-up. He has been named in India’s squad for the T20I series against Bangladesh. Mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who last played a T20I in 2021, has been recalled. India have named a fresh-looking squad of 15 for the three T20Is, which will be played between the ongoing Test series…

Worcestershire 180 (Waite 60, van Beek 48, Phillip 5-65, Bailey 3-22) and 0 for 0 lead Lancashire 177 (Waite 3-38) by three runs Lancashire’s relegation from Division One of the Vitality County Championship was confirmed on the third day of their final match of the 2024 campaign against Worcestershire at Visit Worcestershire New Road. After bowling out the home side for 180, Lancashire were themselves then dismissed for 177 in…

Franchises can retain up to six players each, the right-to-match option is back at the auction, and the Impact Player rule will remain in place for IPL 2025. That aside, the auction purse is bigger at INR 120 crore (US$ 14.33 million approx.), INR 20 crore more than last year. These are among the most significant points finalised by the IPL on Sunday for the retention rules, which would be…

Players in IPL 2005 are set to receive a boost to their earnings with the BCCI introducing a match fee of INR 7.5 lakh (US$ 9000 approx.) per game. This means that in addition to the value of players’ contracts, franchises will also pay them for their appearances over the course of the season. BCCI secretary Jay Shah announced this move on X, formerly Twitter, and said each franchise will…

Prabath Jayasuriya was made to work hard for his wickets in the first Test. Even when he ended up with figures of 4 for 136 in the first innings there, they had at one point been ingloriously perched at 1 for 99. Second time out he got his customary Galle five-for, and that was down to a better showing from his spin colleagues at the other end, who offered much…