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…
Luus five-for knocks Ireland Women out
South Africa Women 156 for 5 (Chetty 35, Lee 30, Garth 2-26) beat Ireland Women 89 for 9 (Shillington 34, Luus 5-8) by 67 runsScorecard Trisha Chetty set up South Africa’s with a run-a-ball 35 © Getty Images/ICC Legspinner Suné Luus‘s career-best figures of 5 for 8 sent Ireland Women crashing out of the Women’s World T20 in Chennai. Luus struck thrice in her first three overs to reduce Ireland…
India win after WWW in last three balls
India 146 for 7 (Raina 30, Mustafizur 2-34) beat Bangladesh 145 for 9 (Tamim 35, Ashwin 2-20) by one runScorecard and ball-by-ball details Play 04:58 Highlights – India prevail in heart-stopping finale How did it come to this? After 39.3 overs of a pulsating contest in Bangalore, Bangladesh seemed to have a first ever T20I victory against India in their grasp. Two runs needed of three balls, with Mushfiqur Rahim…
Captain Bell leads MCC to victory
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 239 for 7 (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…
South Africa welcome Nagpur's change of scene
Aaron Phangiso could carry heavy responsibility for South Africa © AFP Given what happened to South Africa the last time they were in Nagpur, in November 2015, you would think it is the last place they would want to return to. Especially so soon. But you would be wrong. “That was a Test match and this was T20 cricket. It’s a totally different format,” said Imran Tahir, who was not…