Cricket

Report Eve Jones top-scored for the home side but a total of 128 was never quite enough London Spirit 132 for 7 (Dattani 34, Burns 2-15) beat Birmingham Phoenix 128 for 6 (E Jones 47, Dottin 2-28) by three wickets London Spirit overcame a late clatter of wickets to scramble to a three-wicket win with

Preview India may continue to test their bench strength having already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series Big picture India shut the door on Sri Lanka in the first ODI. In the second match, Sri Lanka failed to close out the game. And just like that, in a matter of three days, the

News Australian legend praises England legspinner for backing his own skills, and believes he has Test role Shane Warne may be preparing for London Spirit’s opening match of the Hundred, against Birmingham Phoenix at Edgbaston, but true to reputation, he can’t help but cast his gaze to a rather more distant campaign opener – at

Report George Munsey rattles off 96 but Kent fall well short in their chase Durham 405 for 4 (Clark 141, Lees 100, Bedingham 67, Bancroft 60*) beat Kent 302 for 8 (Munsey 96, Finch 64, Rushworth 3-29) by 103 runs Graham Clark and Alex Lees both hit centuries as Durham trounced Kent Spitfires by 103

News Tabraiz Shamsi replaces the Nepal legspinner in the Oval Invincibles squad Sandeep Lamichhane has urged the ECB to give him “a clear answer” after visa issues ruled him out of the Oval Incincibles’ side for the inaugural season of the Hundred. In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Lamichhane said he was “extremely

Play 01:58 Explainer: How to read the Hundred scorecard Not sure if that was the intention, but the Hundred’s new playing conditions have a utility beyond the laughs. With the exception of a two-run penalty for a no-ball – which has been a feature of English domestic cricket – they are almost all geared to

Preview If Ireland want to test themselves before the T20 World Cup, this is their chance Big Picture South Africa are one win away from being able to declare their winter tours successful bar one ODI defeat. Victory in the T20I series will give them three trophies out of four, after they swept West Indies

Report Away from the impending thrills of the Hundred, Cumbria’s homespun youngsters take on Lancs Lancashire 383 for 7 (Jennings 103, Wells 86, Vilas 82, Jones 56*) beat Cumbria 174 (Boyce 107, Wells 3-16) by 209 runs And so we have returned to Sedbergh. For a few days this week at least, one of cricket’s

Report Carey and Ashton Turner added 104 to form the backbone of the innings Australia 252 for 9 (Carey 67, Turner 49, Walsh Jr 5-39) v West Indies Alex Carey made a promising start to his first match as Australia captain as he top-scored with a neat half-century in Barbados but Hayden Walsh Jr carried

Katherine Brunt, the longest-serving member of the England women’s squad, has warned her peers not to lose sight of the huge progress made by their game, after a gender pay row threatened to overshadow Wednesday’s standalone opening fixture of the Hundred. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, several of the more junior members

Report India named an unchanged XI Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs India Sri Lanka won the toss and have chosen to bat first at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, just as they had done in the first ODI. They made one change, bringing in Kasun Rajitha for Isuru Udana in a pacer-for-pacer

News Finch’s knee injury will be assessed on a day to day basis during the series Alex Carey has been named Australia captain for the first ODI against West Indies in Barbados with Aaron Finch ruled out due to the knee injury he aggravated during the last T20I. Finch’s injury will be assessed on a

News Tributes paid to ‘doyen’ of profession, who wrote on cricket for the Times for 65 years John Woodcock, the doyen of English cricket writing, has died at the age of 94. Woodcock, who lived almost his entire life in the village of Longparish in Hampshire, was cricket correspondent of The Times from 1954 to

News Australian takes over from long-serving John Stephenson at Lord’s Jamie Cox, the former Tasmania and Somerset batter who captained both sides during an outstanding career in domestic cricket, has been appointed as MCC Assistant Secretary (Cricket and Operations), warning that the game faces “some moral and ethical challenges”. Cox is succeeding John Stephenson, who

News The return of his pairing with Yuzvendra Chahal paid dividends for India Among the eleven Indians who took the field against Sri Lanka in the first ODI, perhaps none had a greater point to prove than Kuldeep Yadav. The left-arm wristspinner has not been part of India’s first-choice XI in limited-overs formats recently, and

Report Ryan Burl and Timycen Maruma ruled out due to injuries; Bangladesh unchanged Zimbabwe choose to bat vs Bangladesh Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor decided to bat first in the second ODI against Bangladesh in Harare. However, his counterpart Tamim Iqbal said it was a good toss to lose. Taylor’s decision was based on the fact

Report The duo toyed with Ireland bowlers as they combined to post South Africa’s fifth-highest opening stand South Africa 346 for 4 (Malan 177*, de Kock 120) v Ireland Hundreds from Quinton de Kock and Janneman Malan, who went on to score a career-best 177*, has left Ireland with a tough task to win their

Lancashire 131 for 6 (Wells 30, Croft 26*) beat Yorkshire 128 for 7 (Root 32, Ballance 31, Wood 4-20) by four wickets Those in charge of recording Roses folklore, pens and pads to the ready please. Joe Root, as a stand-in Yorkshire captain, was at the centre of one of the most debatable acts of