Despite a final nerve-wracking session, the tourist had plenty to take away from the first Test as theyavoided a first defeat at Lord's since 1991 'It was a good team effort' - Mathews Alastair Cook is a defensive captain. Angelo Mathews is a defensive captain. Put their teams together on a flat deck that saw three centuries and a double-hundred, and you have a draw. Right? For much of...
Cook heard Pradeep inside edge
While his team launched into a celebratory huddle, Alastair Cook knew what he had heard. The edge from Nuwan Pradeep into his pad, which Paul Reiffel missed, was big enough for Cook to pick it from slip. A few moments later the DRS confirmed that what, for seconds, was a Test victory had been snatched away from them. Then, to add to the agony for the England captain, he watched the last ball of the...
Plenty of ticks for England selectors
'We were ahead throughout the game' - Cook There were six changes for the Lord's Test compared to the England side which took the field at the SCG in January. ESPNcricinfo assesses how each of them performed in the opening match of the series Sam Robson A tricky start for England's latest opener on his homeground. He edged to the keeper in the first innings, reaching for ball that travelled...
Pradeep was confident - Mathews
Arnold: Cricket was the winner Nuwan Pradeep approached the last five balls of the match with confidence, as he walked out to deny Stuart Broad and England, his captain Angelo Mathews revealed after the match. Pradeep swayed away from a bouncer first ball - avoiding a reprise of his hit wicket from the first innings - then played and missed at a back-of-a-length delivery, and fended the...
Jun
13
A nod to the future for Root and England
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...
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