Surrey 415 (Patel 134, Lawes 58, Burns 55, de Leede 4-106) and 25 for 0 beat Durham 262 (Ackermann 78*, Worrall 4-39) and 177 (Gay 48, S Curran 4-23, Worrall 4-34) by ten wickets Sun kissed and hazy, like the summer should have been. As south London bathed in 25-degree heat, the was a prevailing sense of better late than never. And not solely down to the pleasingly warm weather….
Glamorgan 239 (Ingram 82, Coad 4-55, Fisher 4-55) and 141 for 7 (Tribe 50*, Coad 4-30) need 255 runs to beat Yorkshire 361 ((Hill 90, Wharton 63, Bess 50, Govin 4-67) and 273 (Bean 57, Lyth 55, Harris 5-73) lead by 238 runs Yorkshire need three Glamorgan wickets to secure victory on the final day and remain in pole position to earn promotion along with already promoted Sussex. The Welsh…
Sri Lanka have not played a Test in Galle in over a year, while one of their main spinners has not played long-format cricket for many months. Could this be why Sri Lanka’s slow bowlers were inaccurate on day two of their Test against New Zealand? Spin bowling coach Craig Howard wasn’t exactly trying to absolve the Sri Lanka spinners, but did suggest they needed a bit of time to…
Somerset 146 and 204 for 6 (Vaughan 68, Wells 2-23) need 189 runs to beat Lancashire 140 and 398 (Wells 130, Bohannon 60, Leach 3-57) Needing 393 to beat Lancashire and keep their hopes of winning their first Vitality County Championship title alive, Somerset ended the third day’s play at Emirates Old Trafford on 204 for 6, still 189 runs short of their target. Should they succeed in their now…
Worcestershire 273 and 117 for 5 (Libby 55*, Dawson 2-36) trail Hampshire>/b> 462 and 204 (Dawson 51, Virdi 4-108) by 277 runs Liam Dawson returned 50 wickets in a Vitality County Championship season for the first time after scoring an eighth fifty of the season as Hampshire closed in on victory over Worcestershire. Spinning all-rounder Dawson reached a half-century of scalps by adding Kashif Ali and Adam Hose to his…
Stallions 271 for 7 (Babar 104*, Yasir 46, Shakeel 1-14) beat Dolphins 97 (Farhan 32, Mumtaz 3-14, Jahandad 3-18) by 174 runs Babar Azam‘s unbeaten 104 off 100 balls and Jahandad Khan‘s three wickets with the new ball handed Dolphins their third defeat in three games as Stallions registered a mammoth 174-run win in Faisalabad. The result also meant that the team batting first has won all seven matches so…
Northamptonshire 383 (Sales 135, Zaib 71, Keogh 49, Holland 4-53) and 137 for 9 (Procter 86*, Bartlett 54*) beat Leicestershire 203 (Budinger 56, Chahal 4-82) and 316 (Currie 120, Chahal 5-134) by nine wickets Scott Currie‘s valiant maiden first-class century proved in vain despite helping to stage a remarkable Leicestershire fightback as Northamptonshire completed back-to-back first-class victories for the first time in five years to the day. Sent in as…
Hasan Mahmud stuck to bowling fuller lengths for most of the first day of Bangladesh’s Test tour of India. When he wasn’t bowling gentle outswingers to tempt the Indian batters to go for the cover drive, he was trying to hit the stumps or the pads. Taskin Ahmed, who has played more Tests than Mahmud, and Nahid Rana, who bowls much quicker, did not stick to this simple approach. They…
Nottinghamshire 433 (Slater 160, Haynes 62, Hameed 56, Gilchrist 4-101) and 28 for 0 (Slater 22*, Hameed 6*) beat Kent 225 (Evison 76, Farhan 4-37) and 230 (Muyeye 60, Evison 42, Duffy 4-60, Lord 3-42) f/o by 10 wickets Nottinghamshire have thrashed Kent by ten wickets in the Vitality County Championship at Canterbury, condemning the hosts to relegation and boosting their own survival hopes into the bargain. Joey Evison scored…
India A 224 for 7 (Rawat 122*, Mulani 44, Kamboj 3-40, Vyshak 2-33) vs India C Shashwat Rawat waged a lone battle for India A with an unbeaten 122 off 235 balls as the India C quicks kept a lid on proceedings on the opening day of the Duleep Trophy 2024-25 encounter in Anantapur. It could have been a lot worse for India A who lost their top four for…