This was one day at the start of a long summer but after a long and painful winter it was a day for England to enjoy the sunshine Highlights: Root leads England revival with gritty 102* We may never really know how many nervous twitches and glances there were in the England dressing room at 22 for 2. Mitchell Johnson was thousands of miles away and although the pitch was tinged with...
Banned umpire Shah officiates in the USA
Nadir Shah, the Bangladesh umpire who was banned for 10 years by the Bangladesh Cricket Board in March 2013 on charges of corruptions alleged by a TV sting operation, is now a standing umpire in the Southern California Cricket Association, a member league of the American Cricket Federation. The sting, conducted in 2012, claimed to have "exposed" several first-class umpires from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka...
Cockbain earns Gloucs battling draw
Gloucestershire 112 (Dunn 4-37) and 506 for 6 (Cockbain 151*, Klinger 120) drew with Surrey 626 for 6 dec. (Burns 199, Solanki 143, Roy 121*)Scorecard Ian Cockbain batted through the last day and made his first-class best score to lead Gloucestershire to a hugely improbable draw against Surrey. Cockbain, the 27-year-old Liverpudlian, dug in for 15 minutes short of nine hours for 151 not out, only...
Sri Lanka wilt in whites
Sri Lanka arrived at Lord's on the cloud of confidence their limited-overs cricket has generated, but on a tour in which they have sometimes felt besieged they failed to press home an early advantage on the sport's most celebrated stageAt the tail-end of 2012, Sri Lanka's last marquee Test became one of their lowest points in their professional era. On a springy but manageable Melbourne deck, the...
Jun
11
Ambrose and Clarke build on solid foundation
Lancashire 286 and 84 for 2 lead Warwickshire 322 (Ambrose 62, Porterfield 57, Clarke 56) by 48 runsScorecard Building an innings is as much a collective enterprise as an individual skill. As Warwickshire's lower middle order and tail played with enterprise and elan to take their side past Lancashire's total early on the third afternoon of this game, perhaps few in the Edgbaston crowd reckoned...
Surrey roar past 600 against Gloucs
Surrey 626 for 6 (Burns 199, Solanki 143, Roy 121*, Ansari 98) lead Gloucestershire 112 by 514 runsScorecard Rory Burns fell just one run short of a double-century as Surrey smashed a host of records in heaping a mammoth total of 626 for 6 on ramshackle Gloucestershire in Bristol. Burns was not alone in falling short of a personal milestone, with Zafar Ansari slipping two short of his maiden first-class...
Wainwright exploits hurt Leics
Leicestershire 311 and 200 for 9 (O'Brien 71, Wainwright 5-54) lead Derbyshire 336 (Wainwright 109, Hughes 60) by 175 runsScorecard David Wainwright impressed with bat and ball as Derbyshire moved into a good position on day three of their Division Two clash with Leicestershire at Grace Road. Wainwright, who earlier completed his maiden century for the visitors, claimed 5 for 54 to leave the hosts...
New England emerge from rubble
Fresh faces must be complemented by a fresh ethos as England seek to maintain their early season record at home and repair the damage of winterIt can take years to build a consistently successful team, but just months for it to be broken apart. The last time Lord's staged a Test it ended in the final over of added time on the fourth day, when Graeme Swann turned one to beat James Pattinson's outside...
Jun
10
Edwards wins England player award
Charlotte Edwards, an England captain who was able to savour Ashes success home and away over the last 12 months, has been named the Women's Player of the Year. Although the women's team could not end their wait for global silverware at the World T20 in Bangladesh - losing the final to Australia in Dhaka - they regained the Ashes at home, in the first multi-format series where points were accumulated...
Bad weather frustrates Yorkshire
Yorkshire 76 for 2 trail Nottinghamshire 205 (Lumb 45, Bresnan 3-43, Brooks 3-74) by 129 runsScorecard Yorkshire were frustrated by rain at Headingley on Monday with less than 10 overs possible on day two of their Championship match against Nottinghamshire. The visitors had been dismissed for 205 on day one as Yorkshire looked to apply further pressure on Middlesex at the top of the table and...
Bell calls for batting revival
Ian Bell, who has been named England's Player of the Year, has demanded an improvement in the team's "limp" batting returns over the last year as they prepare to resume Test cricket against Sri Lanka. Bell's three Ashes hundreds in 2013 feel a lifetime ago for English cricket, given what has gone on since, but they were the key reason why he secured the award ahead of Stuart Broad and Joe Root....
Hauritz loses Queensland contract
Former Test offspinner Nathan Hauritz faces an uncertain cricket future after losing his Queensland contract. Hauritz was one of four players cut by Queensland from last year's contract list, along with fast bowler Matthew Gale and top-order batsmen Alex Kemp and Greg Moller, while Luke Pomersbach had already announced he would cut ties with the Bulls to concentrate on his health. Fast bowler Mark...
Jun
08
BCCI threatened to form parallel world cricket body
The BCCI had threatened to form a parallel world cricket body before the England and Australia boards agreed to the controversial restructuring of the ICC and decided to give a lion's share of its revenue to the India board, according to the BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel. "We got criticised by many in the media and lot of them did not agree but we told them that if India is not getting its proper due...
SL hopeful on Lakmal for Headingley
Sri Lanka remain hopeful that Suranga Lakmal will be fit for the second Test against England at Headingley, despite a hamstring injury keeping him out of the current squad. Lakmal suffered the problem during the one-off T20 at the start of the tour but his rehabilitation is understood to be going well back in Sri Lanka and he will undergo a fitness test while the first Test, at Lord's, is ongoing....
Whiteley strikes to send Worcs top
Worcestershire 107 for 5 (Kohler-Cadmore 32, Whiteley 25) beat Durham 105 for 3 (McLeod 43) by five wicketsScorecard It's often a strategy, in rain-truncated games, to evaluate the conditions by bowling first. Worcestershire captain Daryl Mitchell had no hesitation in doing just that, following a two-hour delay, and his methods paid dividends as his side timed their tricky chase to perfection to...
Time is of the essence for Mills
Kent 344 for 7 (Stevens 105, Nash 82, Ryder 5-50) v EssexScorecard Time-keeping has been a bit of an issue for Essex of late. So when Tymal Mills trotted onto the field some 80 minutes after his colleagues, a few in the crowd may have wondered whether another disciplinary ruling could be expected. County cricket being what it is, no announcements were made. And those spectators not in the know...
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