IPL 2016

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…

Gloucestershre 154 for 5 (Price 56*, Roland-Jones 3-56) trail Middlesex 377 (Davies 91, Holden 77, De Caires 64, T Price 5-81) by 223 runs Ollie Price and the weather combined to frustrate promotion-chasing Middlesex on the second day of their Vitality County Championship Division Two clash at Lord’s. Right-hander Price showed guts a-plenty to post 56 not out, his fifth score of 50 or more in the first-class game this…

Sussex 407 for 5 (Simpson 112*, Hughes 83, Clark 73*, Crocombe 54) lead Glamorgan 186 (Carlson 56, Unadkat 4-52) by 221 runs Skipper John Simpson became the first Sussex batter for ten years to score five Vitality County Championship hundreds in a season as the second division leaders took charge against Glamorgan at Hove. Simpson also passed 1,000 runs in his unbeaten 112 as Sussex responded to Glamorgan’s under-par 186…

Mitchell Marsh has hinted that his five-month absence from the bowling crease is unlikely to come to an end during Australia’s T20I series. Marsh has not bowled in a competitive match since tearing his hamstring during the IPL, including in last week’s 3-0 clean sweep up in Scotland. Australia have an abundance of allrounders in their T20 set-up, with Jake Fraser-McGurk the only man in their squad who neither keeps…