…minutes before the toss after Gareth Batty suffered a calf injury during warm-up, the second such blow to afflict Surrey this week after Kumar Sangakkara’s hand injury during Saturday’s cup…
…a strong cricketing connection. While the Drax Cup is a long-standing under-nine competition, Ferrybridge and Eggborough both have cricket clubs based at the power stations that compete in local leagues….
…tourists, South Africa. It seems to me that what we all really need now, with full and due respect to the Women’s World Cup, is some Test cricket. I sense…
…One- Day Cup which Ballance’s side lost. After bowling with customary meanness, Coad was hit for more than 20 in an over towards the end of Surrey’s innings – evidence,…
…the neglect of the rest of the cricketing world. In two years after the World Cup, Kenya played a paltry five ODIs. How on earth were they meant to improve…
…the world-wide soccer model in which players are contracted to clubs and only released to their countries for tournaments such as the African and European Champion-ships and World Cup. In…
(Photo: Getty Images) By Richard Edwards Only three England captains have known what it feels like to lift the World Cup – but Charlotte Edwards is backing Heather Knight to…
…for the 2019 World Cup. Lancashire’s highly-promising all-rounder Liam Livingstone is one of five uncapped players in the squad that will contest three T20s against the Proteas starting at the…
…have pleased Imran Khan no end. It is during this game that the world of cricket started to take notice of the precocious talent of the eccentric 23-year-old Hasan Ali,…
…the ICC’s Cricket Committee, wasn’t spouting feminist opinion when she made this statement, merely a simple truth. The Women’s World Cup is just around the corner and with reports of…
…has led to considerable improvements in stability and durability and is being used in the Luzhniki Stadium for the 2018 World Cup Final in Russia. Now the ECB are able…
(Photo: Getty Images) By Tim Wigmore In the 2015 World Cup, New Zealand were intoxicating and unmissable. It was not merely the eight straight games they won, but the élan…
…was no surprise when he dominated the first Anglo-Australian skirmish of this Ashes year. Stokes is no doubt the best player in the world right now and the Durham all-rounder…
…Karachi in a World Cup quarter-final against the West Indies. Brian Lara scored a hundred and that was that. Next came the 1999 World Cup semi-final when the red mist…
…trophy, something I tipped them to do, I would have conceded that they were a better 50-over side than the one which lost the 1992 World Cup final, also to…
…the 2015 World Cup confirmed the time had come to belt them out of the park. Acumen: Mickey Arthur gathers the Pakistan team together (photo: Getty Images) To put it…
…the signing of Yasir Shah, the world’s No1 ranked wrist spinner. Their visitors, sitting eight places below them propping up the table and a massive 121 points adrift, were Durham,…
…last World Cup. The progress Eoin Morgan’s side have made in the two years since then has been based on a powerful batting line-up that is capable of blowing away…
…they do not need to: they have their high-octane rivalries and elongated series with Australia and England; indeed, any nation in the world will do anything they can to accommodate…
…West Indies women’s squad is currently in the UK preparing for the upcoming ICC Women’s World Cup and our most recent information from the squad (who are currently at Loughborough…
…often said of the best players that their biggest opponent is themselves, but it is as if De Villiers, a cheerful, upbeat character previously, has suddenly discovered a cupboard full…