Northamptonshire 152 for 4 (Zaib 37*, Willey 31, Lynn 31) beat Derbyshire 151 for 6 (Madsen 57, Guest 49) by six wickets David Willey‘s return to Northamptonshire as an all-action T20 Blast captain got off to winning ways at the third attempt with a hard-won six-wicket win at Derby with two overs to spare. Predictably,

International cricket will have to find a way to “co-exist” with the continual emergence of franchise-based T20 leagues, ICC’s general manager of cricket Wasim Khan has said. One of international cricket’s showpiece events, the World Test Championship (WTC) final, is less than a fortnight away but is being played at a time of growing uncertainty

Australia have pushed Mitchell Marsh and Matt Renshaw into their reserves for the upcoming WTC final against India, trimming their squad to 15 members in the process. Josh Hazlewood, meanwhile, has been retained after scans had revealed no substantial damage – he left the IPL early after complaining of side soreness. Josh Inglis, who is

Ireland 232 for 0 (Moor 118*, McCollum 100*) and 419 beat Essex 343 and 307 for 8 dec (Adair 85, Buttleman 65, Hume 3-50) by ten wickets Ireland openers PJ Moor and James McCollum produced an unbroken double-century stand to steer their side to a ten-wicket win on day three of their tour match against

In the 2022-23 Ranji Trophy, he scored 315 runs in five matches, averaging 45.00, with one fifty and a century. He followed that season up with 213 and 144 in the Irani Trophy for the Rest of India against Madhya Pradesh. His aggregate of 357 runs in the match was the most for a batter

Lancashire 208 for 4 (Mitchell 85*) beat Nottinghamshire 186 for 5 (Munro 60, Wood 2-29) by 22 runs Shaheen Shah Afridi is the glamorous signing who Nottinghamshire hope will sweep them to glory in the Vitality Blast. He still might, but his debut figures were symptomatic of a losing Nottinghamshire night as Lancashire turned in

Big picture: Dhoni vs Hardik, one more time IPL 2023 has come full circle. The season started with Hardik Pandya’s Gujarat Titans taking on MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in Ahmedabad. In the final on Sunday, the two teams will once again be face-to-face at the same venue. Titans had come out on top in

Surrey 223 for 5 (Abbott 110*) beat Kent 182 for 7 (Muyeye 59, Bell-Drummond 52) by 41 runs Sean Abbott‘s first thought about a glorious night he could never have envisaged was that he is no Andrew Symonds with the bat. That made his intervention at the Kia Oval all the more remarkable. He now

Gujarat Titans 233 for 3 (Gill 129, Sudharsan 43, Chawla 1-45) beat Mumbai Indians 171 (Suryakumar 61, Varma 43, Mohit 5-10) by 62 runs Shubman Gill‘s majestic 129 off 60 balls powered Gujarat Titans into the final of IPL 2023 with a 62-run win over Mumbai Indians in Ahmedabad. Titans will face Chennai Super Kings

Shubman Gill slammed his third IPL century in four games to help Gujarat Titans to 233 for 3 against Mumbai Indians in the second Qualifier. In the process he overtook Faf du Plessis as the highest run-getter of the season. “I went to the washroom to set my hair, didn’t think I’d been wearing this,”