St Lucia Zouks 144 for 3 (Fletcher 49) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 143 (Walton 48, Mathew 3-15) by seven wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Mervin Mathew's 3 for 14 set up a shock seven-wicket victory for the St Lucia Zouks over the Jamaica Tallawahs on Saturday at Warner Park in St Kitts. The Zouks registered just their second win of the season while the Tallawahs wasted a chance to leapfrog the...
Clive Lloyd to head West Indies selection panel
Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has been named the new convenor of the selection panel, which includes former fast bowlers Eldine Baptiste and Courtney Walsh as new appointees in place of Clyde Butts and Robert Haynes. Former wicketkeeper Courtney Browne was retained on the panel, while West Indies coach Ottis Gibson also has a spot on the committee, as does the respective captain as a non-voting...
Batting failures hurting India - Dhoni
This defeat will hurt us - Dhoni MS Dhoni, India's captain, conceded that the failure of his specialist batsmen had been the biggest reason for England taking a 2-1 series lead with one Test left in the five-match series. Dhoni said that India lost the Old Trafford Test virtually in the first hour of the match, when India were reduced to an abysmal 8 for 4 after Dhoni had elected to bat....
England jigsaw coming together
England's upswing has been pleasing for a number of reasons - but there are still ways in which the system could work better #politeenquiries: Should Kohli be dropped? Any victory would have been welcome. After the disappointment of Australia and the drubbing at Lord's, any sign that England had turned a corner was going to be greeted with relief. But for England to win so convincingly,...
Aug
09
Mahmood helps rout South Africa for 77
South Africa U-19s 77 (Mahmood 3-12, Rhodes 2-9, Wood 2-14) trail England U-19s 393 (Jones 52, Makhanya 4-48) by 316 runsScorecard South Africa Under-19s were fired out for just 77 and closed the second day at Wantage Road staring defeat in the face after conceding a first-innings lead of 316. England will surely enforce the follow-on on day three and will have two days to wrap up victory and...
Sussex beaten by rain and Roland-Jones
Middlesex 81 for 1 beat Sussex 248 for 9 (Nash 65, Roland-Jones 4-42) by 21 runs (D/L method)Scorecard Middlesex won for only the second time in the Royal London Cup despite rain ruining their run chase against Sussex in the Group B encounter at Hove. Chasing 249, Middlesex were 81 for 1 in the 18th over when the rain arrived and umpires Martin Saggers and George Sharp abandoned play at 8.40pm...
Aaron quickens India pulse
It is too early to know whether Varun Aaron can bowl with consistent pace but his impact at Old Trafford has been heartening for India fans Highlights: Varun Aaron strikes keeps England within sight Rarely does MS Dhoni collect a ball with fingers pointing skywards and the ball thudding into his gloves. Even on this pitch, the quickest this set of India players might have played on, he...
'Extreme' downpour swamps Old Trafford
Rain ruins play on day two at Old Trafford Just a day after the Old Trafford authorities were being praised for producing the best pitch of the international summer in England, boos rang out around the ground. The source of the crowd's frustration was understandable: a sharp but relatively short shower had not just interrupted play, but caused an abandonment. What promised to be another...
Aug
08
England let their bowling talk
England refrained from verbal aggression. And their performance did not dip as a consequence. Indeed, you might argue that the added discipline, control and focus actually rendered them more effective Highlights: Broad wreaks havoc on India with 6 for 25 Ronan Keating almost certainly was not thinking about the England seam attack when he sang "You say it best when you say nothing at all."...
New Zealand domestic contracts finalised
New Zealand's six domestic teams have finalised their 15-man squads for next summer, with no player movements of note following the first round of contracts last month. Auckland added two players to their contract list and the other teams added one, and every case featured a promotion of a player from within their own system rather than recruiting from another side. Wicketkeeper-batsman Michael Guptill-Bunce...
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