It has been a big summer for Travis Head © Getty Images South Australia captain Travis Head has been named Sheffield Shield Player of the Year for 2015-16. Head won the award for a season in which he not only scored 699 runs at 38.83, including three centuries, but also led the Redbacks into a Sheffield Shield final for the first time in 20 years. It has been a big…
Head name Sheffield Shield Player of the Year
It has been a big summer for Travis Head © Getty Images South Australia captain Travis Head has been named Sheffield Shield Player of the Year for 2015-16. Head won the award for a season in which he not only scored 699 runs at 38.83, including three centuries, but also led the Redbacks into a Sheffield Shield final for the first time in 20 years. It has been a big…
England overcome potential banana skin
England survived a scare at the hands of qualifiers Afghanistan to boost their ICC World Twenty20 semi-final hopes with a 15-run victory in Delhi. England, having won the toss, slipped to a desperate 57 for six after losing five wickets for just 11 runs on a slow Feroz Shah Kotla pitch that was hosting its first Twenty20 international. David Willey strode to the crease to join Moeen Ali at 85…
Morgan encouraged by batting depth
Eoin Morgan took heart from England batting deep after they overcame initial batting trouble to beat Afghanistan in the ICC World Twenty20. Morgan was part of a slide to 57 for six on a turning pitch in Delhi, before Moeen Ali and David Willey eventually steadied the ship and unleashed some late hitting in a total of 142 for seven. England’s bowlers then stifled their opponents, restricting them to 127…
We have advantage over Windies – Knight
England will have the upper hand when they face fellow heavyweights West Indies in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 tomorrow, according to Heather Knight. The teams clash in Dharamsala, both knowing that victory will earn a place in the semi-finals with a group game to spare. Given that England yesterday beat India in Dharamsala but the Windies are yet to play there, Knight believes she and her team-mates will be…
Bell leads the way as MCC down champions
MCC 299 (Foakes 91, Clarke 58, Burns 51, Bresnan 4-58, Carver 4-106) and 257 for 6 (Bell 66, Westley 58) beat Yorkshire 275 (Ballance 105, Rhodes 95, Tredwell 3-53) and 279 (Lees 86, Patel 3-52, Tredwell 3-79) by four wicketsScorecard Ian Bell top-scored in MCC’s successful run chase © Getty Images Champions Yorkshire were beaten by four wickets in Abu Dhabi as Ian Bell helped lay the platform for a…
Bell inspires MCC to victory
MCC captain Ian Bell helped his team to a four-wicket win over Yorkshire in Abu Dhabi as the county champions suffered a rare first-class defeat. Bell, batting at number three for the select team in the season’s curtain-raiser at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, confirmed he is back in form by following up his first-innings 44 with 66. There was also a half-century for Essex’s Tom Westley, before Ben Foakes and…
MS Dhoni details last-ball plan
Play 02:15 Match Day – Bumrah showed mental toughness India’s captain MS Dhoni has lauded allrounder Hardik Pandya’s “fantastic execution” of the last ball, which led to Mustafizur Rahman being run out by Dhoni in a mad-cap final over. Having been cracked for fours off his second and third balls in the defence of 10 runs, Pandya had Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah holing out off the next two balls. The…
The plan was to bowl back of a length, not yorker – MS Dhoni
Play 02:15 Match Day – Bumrah showed mental toughness India’s captain MS Dhoni lauded allrounder Hardik Pandya’s “fantastic execution” of the last ball, in which Mustafizur Rahman was run out by Dhoni in a mad-cap final over. Having been cracked for fours off his second and third balls in the defence of 10 runs, Pandya had Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah holing out off the next two balls. The equation untimately…
Ripley keeping lid on Panesar expectations
In the lead up to the 2016 domestic season, ecb.co.uk will be running a series of features with all 18 first-class counties. Northamptonshire coach David Ripley is refusing to get carried away about the return of former England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar. There is no doubting who will be the centre of attention at Northamptonshire’s pre-season media day early next month. Monty Panesar remains one of the best-known and most…