Somerset 147 for 4 (Rossouw 67, Smeed 58) beat Essex 139 for 9 (Critchley 60, Pepper 37, de Lange 4-9, Davey 3-31) by six wickets Overseas signings Marchant de Lange and Rilee Rossouw played key roles as Somerset continued an impressive start to their Vitality Blast campaign with a thumping six-wicket win over Essex Eagles
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County Select XI 247 and 112 for 1 (Compton 56*) need a further 152 to beat New Zealanders 362 for 9 dec (Henry 65, Mitchell 58, Fletcher 50*) and 148 (Porter 5-31) After four playing days of largely serene progress in their build-up towards the first Test, New Zealand were blindsided by the County Select
Brendon McCullum has suggested that he will look to reintegrate a number of England’s white-ball stars into the Test side – naming Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid and Liam Livingstone as players who could be part of his future plans. McCullum was unveiled as England’s new Test coach at Lord’s on Friday, speaking at
Derbyshire 159 for 5 (Masood 53, du Plooy 38*) beat Leicestershire 89 (Kerr 2-6, McKiernan 2-17) by 70 runs Derbyshire Falcons picked up their first win of the Vitality Blast campaign as Leicestershire Foxes crashed to a second heavy defeat. Pakistan opener Shan Masood made 53, sharing what proved to be the key partnership of
IPL 2022 Final – Gujarat Titans vs Rajasthan Royals, Ahmedabad Safe XI: Jos Buttler (capt), Wriddhiman Saha (vice-capt), Sanju Samson, Shubman Gill, Devdutt Padikkal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami, Prasidh Krishna, Obed McCoy, Yash Dayal Captain: Jos ButtlerButtler has had a whopping IPL season, scoring 824 runs in 16 innings so far at an
Jos Buttler has racked up 824 runs at a strike rate of 151 so far in IPL 2022, with one innings left to play, but he came into the season with “very low expectations”. He said as much after his bruising, unbeaten, 60-ball 106 on Friday to take Rajasthan Royals into just their second IPL
Rajasthan Royals 161 for 3 (Buttler 106*, Samson 23, Hazlewood 2-23) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 157 for 8 (Patidar 58, du Plessis 25, Prasidh 3-22, McCoy 3-23) by seven wickets Rajasthan Royals stormed to their first IPL final since winning the title in the inaugural season in 2008, beating Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets
There were jokes, laughs, sombre moments and a poem titled ‘You ripper Roy’ as Andrew Symonds was farewelled in style on Friday. Family, friends, cricketing team-mates and fans gathered at Townsville’s Riverway Stadium for the public memorial service, following a private funeral on Friday morning. Poet Rupert McCall remembered the times he’d receive telephone calls
Fast bowler Lea Tahuhu is among those who have been dropped from New Zealand’s central contract list as six new players earn deals. Frankie Mackay, Leigh Kasperek and Thamsyn Newton are the other players who fall off the contracts list along with the retired Katey Martin. The omission of 31-year-old fast bowler Tahuhu is significant
TossVelocity opt to bowl vs Trailblazers Deepti Sharma’s Velocity, who need either a win or a narrow defeat to qualify for the Women’s T20 Challenge Final, won an important toss in Pune against Smriti Mandhana’s Trailblazers. Deepti chose to bowl first, saying that the Velocity side would prefer batting second, a template the team used