Gloucestershire 181 for 2 (Roderick 88*, Gidman 57*) trail Worcestershire 194 (Oliver 52, Miles 5-54) by 13 runsScorecard Promotion favourites Worcestershire endured one of their worst days of the summer in the Championship when dismissed for 194 by Gloucestershire on a seaming surface at New Road. Having come into the match with a game in hand and 43 points ahead of second-placed Surrey, they...
Ervine, Wood revive Hampshire
Hampshire 343 for 7 (Ervine 75*, Wood 61, Smith 56) v KentScorecard Sean Ervine made the best of a placid Canterbury pitch to ease Hampshire into the driving seat on the opening day of their Championship Division Two clash with Kent. The 31-year-old Zimbabwean scored an unbeaten 75 from 110 balls to resurrect a Hampshire innings that, at 187 for 5, had threatened to seriously underachieve. With...
Davies responds to Foakes signing
Surrey 403 for 8 (Davies 147*, Solanki 93) v LeicestershireScorecard Steven Davies scored his second Championship century of the season and Vikram Solanki hit 93 as promotion-seeking Surrey took control of their Division Two game against bottom-of-the-table Leicestershire at Grace Road. Put into bat on a green-looking pitch, Surrey recovered from a shaky start to post an imposing total of 403...
More rain pushes back play at USACA Nationals
'Rain has been very frustrating' Steady rain throughout Friday afternoon and evening has caused rounds three and four of the preliminary phase of the USACA T20 National Championship to be pushed back into Saturday morning. Group play was scheduled to wrap up on Friday evening, but thunderstorms have prevented more than half the games from being played over the first two days of the...
Aug
15
Anderson 'most skilful in world' - Cook
'Anderson most skilful bowler in world' - Cook Alastair Cook has hailed James Anderson as "the most skilful bowler in the world" and the best "England have ever produced". Anderson comes into the fifth Test of the Investec series against India requiring just seven more wickets to equal Ian Botham's England record of 383. Cook, the England captain, admitted that Anderson might not have...
England adapt to keep Test in balance
England 92 and 110 for 6 (Winfield 35) lead India 114 (Gunn 5-19) by 88 runsScorecard Test matches are often decided by a team's ability to adapt. Bowlers who can adapt to a flattening pitch, batsmen who can adapt to a change in the attack and captains who sense when the time is right to switch from defence to offence can all change the momentum of a cricket match as it ebbs and flows in its longest...
Plunket Shield schedule announced
New Zealand Cricket has released the Plunket Shield schedule for 2014-15 and has said it has locked in a format for the domestic season for the next four years. The first round of matches will be played in late October, followed by two full rounds in December, and the remainder of the competition will take place from early February onwards. "Our major associations told us certainty of scheduling...
Rain ruins first set of games at USACA Nationals
'Everyone's looking to make the Uganda tour' - Japen Patel Central East Region was the big winner after lightning and rain caused the first set of games at the USACA T20 National Championship to end with no result. Central East was sent in to bat by the South East in the first game played on the main stadium wicket. They were reduced to 40 for 7 at the 13 over mark when lightning interrupted...
Aug
14
India hold edge as 16 wickets tumble
India Women 87 for 6 (Gunn 4-13) trail England Women 92 (Niranjana 4-19) by five runsScorecard The dawn of the fully professional era for England Women did not exactly unfold as planned. This was expected, by many, to be a lop-sided affair between a team of full-time athletes, most with Test match experience, and a team containing eight players on Test debut. Between a side which has played...
Tredwell spins out his other team
Kent 299 (Bell-Drummond 83, Billings 51, Arafat 4-49) beat Sussex 183 (Joyce 47, Tredwell 4-27, Claydon 3-26)Scorecard Kent retained their unbeaten tag in the Royal London Cup and stretched their Group B lead to four points with a hard-earned 59-run win over Sussex in a rain-affected clash at Canterbury. A heavy shower during the break between innings coupled with a second shower early in the...
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