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...
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