Durham 218 for 4 (Mustard 92, Borthwick 80) beat Hampshire 224 for 9 (Dawson 69, Ervine 33, Rushworth 5-42) by six wickets D/LScorecard Durham gave Geoff Cook nothing to worry about as they took over from visitors Hampshire at the top of Group B in the Yorkshire Bank 40 League with a six-wicket victory at Chester-le-Street. With coach Cook still in a critical condition following his heart attack...
Hoggard swings back to form
Essex 196 for 6 (Pettini 72, Hoggard 4-30) trail Leicestershire 302 (Napier 7-90) by 106 runsScorecard Essex clawed their way out of another batting crisis against Leicestershire on the second day at Grace Road, just a week after they were bowled out for 20 by Lancashire. Essex plunged to 28 for 4, with veteran seamer Matthew Hoggard claiming all four at a cost of just 12 runs in his first appearance...
Guptill and Taylor shine in solid workout
New Zealanders 185 for 7 (Guptill 56, Taylor 52, Latham 38, Claydon 5-31) beat Kent 143 (Stevens 41) by 42 runsScorecard The New Zealanders warmed up for the Twenty20 series against England with an efficient 42-run win against Kent on a murky evening in Canterbury. Martin Guptill and Ross Taylor hit half-centuries to leave the home side a demanding chase and they fell well short. There was cause...
Khawaja creeps closer to Test recall
Even if recent scores of 51, eight, a duck, 29 not out and six for Australia A do not suggest it, Usman Khawaja is slipping closer to a Test match recall in the Ashes series, more than 18 months after his last appearance. The misadventures of others are helping. David Warner is pondering his behaviour and also a possible move down the order. Shane Watson is searching himself for a way to score runs...
Jun
22
England have 'proved people wrong' - Trott
Jonathan Trott believes England have "proved a few people wrong" about their approach to one-day cricket by reaching the Champions Trophy final and putting themselves within one win of their first piece of 50-over global silverware. Throughout this tournament, especially after the defeat to Sri Lanka at The Oval which left them needing to win every subsequent match, England's tactics have been picked...
Gale ton steals the show
Yorkshire 292 for 5 (Gale 114*, Ballance 90) v SurreyScorecard Anyone who came to Headingley hoping to see Kevin Pietersen bat had to accept that such a pleasure would not be forthcoming after Surrey put Yorkshire in and failed to take a wicket in the first hour and a half. From England's perspective, a day in the field as one of the key components of their plan to win the Ashes is nursed back...
Madsen, Johnson keep Derbs respectable
Somerset 16 for 0 trail Derbyshire 266 (Johnson 56, Madsen 50) by 250 runsScorecard Derbyshire wicketkeeper Richard Johnson scored a defiant half-century to lead a lower-order fightback in their Championship match against Somerset at Derby. Johnson made 56 and shared an eighth-wicket stand of 82 in 22 overs with Tony Palladino as Derbyshire's last four wickets added 125. Wayne Madsen also made...
Maddinson's rapid ton shows potential and pitfalls
Gloucestershire 104 for 5 (Sayers 3-24) trail Australia A 331 for 4 dec (Maddinson 181, Hughes 47) by 227 runsScorecard Boom. A lofted straight drive clatters into the construction site at the Ashley Down Road End of the County Ground in Bristol. Whoosh. An attempt to repeat the shot next ball draws a wild swing and a near outside edge. It is 45 minutes before lunch on day one of a first-class...
Jun
21
Fair result for a middling ODI team
Fight carries Sri Lanka far into tournaments, but they lack the ruthless edge that winning titles requiresSri Lanka have made for pretty bridesmaids in recent years. They have known, in past campaigns, how to make the most of their assets - the big players have fired and the team has played a very watchable brand of cricket. This time, they encountered the team of the competition in the semi-finals,...
Ishant, Kumar, Yadav find pack mentality
India's three seamers clicked as a unit for the first time in Cardiff to great effectWest Indies were the pioneers of the fast bowling pack mentality in the 20th century. England have been the flag bearers of that method in the new millennium. It is a strategy where three or more fast bowers operate in tandem and work with each other to a pre-set plan. The batsmen get no respite. They are bombarded...
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