After falling agonisingly short of a Test century on debut, then returning with a fiery spell in the final session, Jamie Overton was refreshingly philosophical at the end of day three of the third Test at Headingley. Both efforts contributed to England’s cause, ensuring a first innings of 360 for a lead of 31, before
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There will be a T20I in Malahide on Sunday, and the match will hold different meanings for the two teams contesting it. For an India side missing a number of regulars, this is another step on the way to figuring out their combination for the T20 World Cup in Australia later this year. They’ll have,
Glenn Maxwell had always held out hope, if not always complete belief, that he would get another chance in Test cricket. But he did not want to tempt fate in Sri Lanka, so did not pack his baggy green. And as it turns out, he’ll need a new one in Galle with the original having
Somerset 75 for 6 (Abell 26, Neser 3-19) beat Glamorgan 59 for 5 (Ingram 37*, Green 2-13) by 16 runs Somerset put themselves one step closer to qualification for the Vitality Blast quarter-finals with a 16-run win over Glamorgan in Cardiff. Persistent rain reduced the match to a seven-over contest with Glamorgan putting Somerset into
Madhya Pradesh 368 for 3 (Dubey 133, Shubham 116, Patidar 67*) trail Mumbai 374 (Sarfaraz 134, Jaiswal 78, Yadav 4-106) by 6 runs To say Mumbai were given a taste of their own medicine would be an understatement. Yash Dubey and Shubham Sharma batted for nearly two sessions, doing what great Mumbai teams of the
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
Hampshire 208 for 5 (Vince 129*, Prest 62) beat Somerset 194 for 9 (Rossouw 55, Banton 54, Wood 2-26) by 14 runs James Vince hammered the highest individual score by a Hampshire player in T20 cricket as the Hawks pulled off a 14-run Vitality Blast victory over Somerset at Taunton. The visiting skipper smashed 129
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
James Pattinson has withdrawn from the final year of his Melbourne Renegades contract in order to spend time with his family over Christmas. Pattinson, who retired from international cricket last year, made six appearances in the 2021-22 season where he claimed just three wickets before ending his season early due to manage injuries amid the
Birmingham Bears 213 for 4 (Hose 63*, Benjamin 58*, Sanderson 2 for 18) beat Northamptonshire 211 for 6 (Zaib 74, Lynn 59) by six wickets The time of reckoning is upon us in the Blast and Birmingham responded to it by swinging to the leg-side harder and more often. They remained in touch with Northants’