Jamie Overton has been a long, long time coming. Having impressed at U-19 level a decade ago, and been first called up to an England squad in 2013, and despite being a near-permanent presence on England’s radar, he only makes his England debut today, at Headingley. The pace has always kept them interested but, this
It was another case of one step forward, two steps back for Bangladesh. They were bowled out for 234 in the first innings in St Lucia, a vast improvement from the same position in Antigua a week ago, but still not enough to put a dent in West Indies’ confidence. The home side raced to
Australia A 254 (Peirson 67*, Rasanjana 5-82) and 370 for 5 (Peirson 128*, Hunt 107, Hardie 78*) beat Sri Lanka A 330 for 9 dec (Dananjaya 92, Udara 63, Arachchige 61, Boland 4-38, Steketee 4-69) and 290 (Dananjaya 77, Arachchige 58, Boland 3-51, Sangha 3-53) by five wickets Queensland wicketkeeper Jimmy Peirson completed an outstanding
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There has been no announcement from the ICC about the window, and it is unlikely to be one given it is a domestic league. And the FTP for the next eight-year cycle has not yet been finalised but BCCI secretary Jay Shah said recently that a window for the now 10-team tournament will make sure
Ranji Trophy Final: Madhya Pradesh look to take first innings lead against Mumbai© Twitter Ranji Trophy Final, MUM v MP, Day 4 Live Score Updates: Rajat Patidar and skipper Aditya Shrivastava helped Madhya Pradesh take first innings lead and gain significant advantage against Mumbai on Day 4 of the ongoing Ranji Trophy Final at the M
Yorkshire would have gone bust had the ECB not lifted its suspension on Headingley hosting international and major cricket matches, according to the club’s chair, Lord Kamlesh Patel. Imposed in November following the county’s handling of Azeem Rafiq’s racism scandal, those sanctions were lifted in February under certain provisos. Those included the ability to show
Jonny Bairstow says England are trying to play in a style that is “different to the norm” and has described Test cricket as “a simple game that we complicate” after hitting a 95-ball hundred to rescue England from 55 for 6 at Headingley. Bairstow walked out to bat with England 17 for 3 in the
Pakistan’s men’s cricketers will have red and white-ball contracts separated in a revamp of the way the PCB central contracts are handed out. PCB chairman Ramiz Raja announced the move was necessary to incentivise and reward the efforts of players in each format. The number of centrally-contracted men’s cricketers will also rise from 20 to
Indians 246 for 8 dec (Bharat 70, Walker 5-24) and 80 for 1 (Gill 38, Bharat 31*) lead Leicestershire 244 (Pant 76, Jadeja 3-28, Shami 3-42) by 82 runs From the moment he came out wearing the big gloves for Leicestershire, Rishabh Pant against India’s Test seam bowlers was a juicy prospect. Pant has his
Innings break New Zealand 329 (Mitchell 109, Blundell 55, Leach 5-100) vs England Daryl Mitchell made history for New Zealand with his third century in consecutive matches, but fell on the stroke of lunch to a fine catch in the deep from Ben Stokes, as England were made to toil for their breakthroughs on the
Innings break Sri Lanka 160 all out (Chamika 75, Hazlewood 2-22, Cummins 2-22) vs Australia Sri Lanka’s rolling collapse ate up the top order, decimated the middle, and threatened to wipe out the tail, until Chamika Karunaratne intervened with 75 off 74. He lifted Sri Lanka from an embarrassing 85 for 8, to 160 all
Behind the warm smile, the runs and the masti, there is a deeply emotional side to Sarfaraz Khan. It comes up almost always when he talks about his cricket. No conversation ever passes without the mention of his abbu. On Thursday, after scoring his fourth hundred of the season, and eighth overall in first-class cricket,
It’s natural for sports teams to take lessons learnt from one game into another but to take those lessons from a fixture played over eight years ago has to be unprecedented. That’s what South Africa will have to do when they play their first Test since 2014 next week. They’re looking back to when they
Adil Rashid will miss England’s white-ball series against India and the latter stages of Yorkshire’s T20 Blast campaign in order to make the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Rashid is a practicing Muslim and decided earlier this year that he had reached the right time in his life to make the pilgrimage, and has been granted
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Henry Nicholls was dismissed in a bizarre fashion on Day 1 of 3rd Test against England© Twitter Stuart Broad led England’s attack in the absence of James Anderson before New Zealand lost Henry Nicholls in bizarre fashion on the opening day of the third Test at Headingley on Thursday. New Zealand were 123 for five
Kane Williamson says he has got over his frustrations at missing out on the Trent Bridge Test because of a positive Covid test, and is eager to get back to leading New Zealand in the third and final Test, which gets underway at Headingley on Thursday. Williamson spent five days in isolation in New Zealand’s
Jemimah Rodrigues has seen more ups and downs in the last couple of years of her cricket career than a rollercoaster. She was benched during the first ODI in England last year and the T20I series that followed, before missing the ODIs against Australia and returning for the T20Is Down Under. Despite impressive outings in
England’s new coaching structure will hold face-to-face meetings next week to work out how to manage multi-format players’ workloads during a schedule of 12 limited-overs internationals in 25 days. Matthew Mott‘s white-ball side will play three ODIs and three T20Is against both India and South Africa between July 7 and 31, a window which starts
Bowling allrounder Mohammad Saifuddin has been ruled out of the white-ball leg of Bangladesh’s tour of the West Indies. Saifuddin was deemed not fit enough to bowl after recovering from a back injury. It is the second pullout due to back injuries in as many days after Yasir Ali was also ruled out from the
Luke Wright, who was recently appointed to New Zealand’s support staff for the forthcoming tours to Ireland, Scotland, and Netherlands, has now got a new gig with Auckland as their performance and talent coach. He will start working with Auckland from September after New Zealand’s tour to Europe. Wright’s wife is an Aucklander and he
Worcestershire hope that Mohammad Hasnain will help them “blast teams out” after securing his services for the final six games of the County Championship season as their second overseas player. Hasnain, 22, has only played six first-class games in his career but has won 26 Pakistan caps in limited-overs internationals and was cleared to resume
Indians 246 for 8 (Bharat 70*, Kohli 33, Walker 5-24, Davis 2-64) vs Leicestershire Jasprit Bumrah bowled to Virat Kohli, Prasidh Krishna got the wicket of Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant caught Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara chased after Rohit Sharma‘s drives, but it was a player yet to play first-class cricket for Leicestershire who stole the
South Africa will need to develop a patience game with both bat and ball as they embark on their first Test in eight years when they take on England in Taunton next week. That’s the assessment of vice-captain Chloe Tryon, one of only five members of the current squad to have played a Test before.
New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first vs England Kane Williamson won the toss for New Zealand and chose to bat first, as the third LV= Insurance Test against England prepared to get underway at Headingley. On a straw-coloured pitch that was described as a “featherbed” by Nick Knight on Sky Sports,
Big picture West Indies have the chance to jump over Pakistan in the ICC World Test Championship points table when they take on Bangladesh in the second Test, in St Lucia on Friday. The home side are currently in sixth place with 42 points, two behind Pakistan. More enticing than the Test series win for
Australia have been handed another injury concern ahead of the Test series against Sri Lanka with Travis Head ruled out of the final ODI in Colombo due to a hamstring problem. Head sustained the injury late in the fourth match and has just six days to recover before the first Test in Galle. If he
Brendon McCullum believes the England captaincy has come at the right time for Ben Stokes and admitted he initially feared the two were too similar to succeed together. McCullum was appointed as coach of the England Test side in the second week of May. By then, new managing director Rob Key had already taken the