England’s injury-prone pace makes it apparent that “an almost endless supply of these leagues” is good for the game and the players’ future. Reece Topley was speaking at the launch of KP Snacks’ community cricket pitches initiative, England’s left-arm seamer Reece Topley believes that the debut season of Major League Cricket (MLC) has opened up […]

Ponting requests an ICC probe after his replacement ‘struck the bat so hard.’ Usman Khawaja, Australia’s opening batter, echoed Ricky Ponting’s displeasure with the crucial ball change midway through the fourth innings of the fifth Ashes Test at the Kia Oval, saying he “hadn’t felt the ball hit my bat as hard” at any other […]

Nicholas Pooran reserved his power-hitting masterclass for the last match, Nicholas Pooran reserved his power-hitting masterclass for the last match, scoring 137 off 55 balls to give MI New York their first Major League Cricket title. Quinton de Kock’s 87 powered Seattle Orcas and gave them a half-time lead, but the MI New York captain […]

Motie and Shepherd each took three wickets to set up the game for the West Indies, and Hope and Carty did the rest with the bat.   West Indies won comfortably in the end, West Indies 182 for 4 (Hope 63*, Carty 48*, Thakur 3-42) defeated India 181 (Kishan 55, Motie 3-36, Shepherd 3-37, Joseph […]

India innovated with their batting order, with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli not coming out to bat in their regular positions West Indies’ woes in the 50-over format continued as India won the first One-Day International (ODI) in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Thursday (July 27). Kuldeep Yadav took four wickets and Ravindra Jadeja three as the […]

Matt Henry collects 6 for 80 as Surrey take a commanding first-inning advantage at Taunton. Tom Latham and Will Jacks both fell just short of a century. Somerset 170 (Kohler-Cadmore 59, Lawes 4-41) trails Surrey 368 (Latham 99, Jacks 99, Henry 6-80) by 198 runs. On a rain-shortened second day of the LV= Insurance County […]

At Old Trafford, a double-century stand with Luke Procter repels a Lancashire attack. Emilio Gay 144 signposts way for Northants to gather rare batting points Northamptonshire 302 (Gay 144, Procter 75) defeated Lancashire. Sporting fashion is so contagious that whenever a county has deviated from cricket orthodoxy or attempted to force the tempo in a […]

Because of the flat quality of the pitch at the SSC in Colombo, spin testing may be reduced. Big Picture: Another test for Pakball What are you going to do? What are you going to do when they come for you? Bazooka, Bazooka.. Yes, even this – a preview of a Sri Lanka-Pakistan Test – […]

Fargana Hoque, the country’s first ODI century-maker, admits to panicking in the 1990s but says she was inspired by the greatest men’s hitters. Nigar Sultana believes that the 1-1 tie in the ODI series against India will elevate the Bangladesh women’s team in their own country. “We are quite happy with the overall outcome,” Nigar […]