A day after Boyd Rankin revealed his time on England's Ashes tour led him to contemplate giving up the game, Cricket Ireland has expressed the hope that the fast bowler could still play for them at the 2015 World Cup. Rankin retired from playing for Ireland towards the end of 2012 and made his England debut last year before playing in the last Test of the Ashes series in January. But, after enduring...
Cook needs senior support - Anderson
Alastair Cook has taken a lot of criticism for England's recent slide but he could not be blamed for their latest batting calamity, as they subsided to 99 all out in Durham. Ruled out with injury, all he could do was watch on grim-faced at the procession of batsmen. It is not yet confirmed whether Cook will take his place for the third one-day international at Old Trafford although a lengthy net...
Anderson cautious over Flintoff
James Anderson has sounded a cautious note about the potential T20 comeback of Andrew Flintoff but said even if a playing return, five years after he last appeared professionally, does not happen then Flintoff's presence around young players can have a huge impact. After subsiding in the last week or so, after he picked up an ankle injury, talk of Flintoff returning for Lancashire in the T20 Blast...
Simmons signs three-year deal with Strikers
Craig Simmons has followed up his breakout Big Bash League last summer by signing a three-year contract with the Adelaide Strikers, leaving the title-holding Perth Scorchers "shocked and disappointed" at his departure. A fringe state cricketer for most of his career, 31-year-old Simmons moved from New South Wales to Perth and rode a torrent of club runs into the Scorchers' squad, where he twice clattered...
May
27
Rudolph, Cooke build strong advantage
Leicestershire 109 and 6 for 1 trail Glamorgan 350 for 8 (Rudolph 88, Cooke 58) by 235 runsScorecard Glamorgan pressed home their advantage on day two against Leicestershire. Resuming on 56 for 1 under blue skies at the SWALEC Stadium, having dismissed the visitors for a paltry 109 on a rain-affected opening day, the hosts reached 350 for 8 before declaring. Opener Jacques Rudolph top-scored with...
Rankin considered future after Ashes experience
Boyd Rankin has admitted he thought about giving up cricket in the weeks following his chastening Test debut in Sydney. Rankin, who took three wickets on his return to county duty with Warwickshire after five months on the sidelines, conceded that "I let myself and the rest of the team down" in that final Test of the Ashes series. The 29-year-old Rankin, who retired from representing Ireland to...
Overtons hint at future, Giles at past
Warwickshire 78 for 1 trail Somerset 411 (Hildreth 98, Compton 92, Overton 56) by 333 runsScorecard With respect to the Gidmans, the Alis, the Shantrys and the Swanns, probably not since the Hollioakes has a pair of brothers emerged in the county game with the potential to achieve as much as the Overton twins. On a sluggish pitch, in an anodyne match and with rain blighting progress once more,...
Broad advised to give up T20
Durham 78 for 2 trail Nottinghamshire 377 by 299 runsScorecard Stuart Broad may have to call time on his England Twenty20 career - and with it the "kudos" that goes with being captain - to give him a better chance of staying fit for Test and one-day international cricket. The 27-year-old fast bowler is playing competitive cricket for the first time since the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh as Nottinghamshire...
May
26
Dilshan dimmed by time but grows in substance
The one-time master of a vast arsenal of strokes has smelted down his technique as age catches up with him. How he and his side have benefited Eventually we all get old, and time erodes the faculties that quickened us in youth. For athletes, the slide is more acute. By 35, age has begun to diminish most batsmen; the reflexes slacken, the power fades, the feet grow heavy. For so long, TIllakaratne...
Why Mumbai got that extra ball
In the calculation of net run rate (NRR), the final score, and not the target, is the relevant number. For Mumbai Indians, the requirement to finish the chase in 87 deliveries was only subject to their final score being 190. The chasing team, if they take a few extra deliveries to get home, can still push their NRR up to the required fraction if they manage to achieve a final score that is sufficiently...
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