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The first pitch of the series with some green grass on it threw up some extraordinary cricket across the first two innings of the final Test. We have become used to England’s Bazballers breaking the laws of cricketing gravity but some things hold true wha...
03.08.2025
Despite England’s incredible recent record of huge chases against these opponents, India are firm favourites to secure a series-levelling victory at The Oval, after a third day that went their way from almost start to finish. England, who were 50/1 at the...
03.08.2025
India completed one of the most dramatic Test match victories ever seen on British soil, squaring the series with a stunning six-run victory after Chris Woakes attempted to carry England over the line with a dislocated shoulder. England arrived on the fin...
04.08.2025
Chris Woakes bravely came out to bat with a dislocated shoulder on Monday as England fell to defeat in the fifth Test against India. The all-rounder entered proceedings at the Kia Oval with his arm in a sling tucked underneath his jumper and winced in pai...
04.08.2025
The Rothesay County Championship is set up for a thrilling finale next month, but until then The Hundred and the less-publicised Metro Bank One-Day Cup take centre stage for August. In the final Kookaburra round of the season, Surrey and Yorkshire were th...
04.08.2025
When Shubman Gill was asked during the post-match presentation what he had learned about his team over the six weeks, the Indian skipper replied with an uplifting smile: ‘That we never give up.’ That perfectly captured the character of this series, write...
04.08.2025
England captain Ben Stokes took his side’s agonising six-run loss to India on the chin at the Kia Oval, accepting a 2-2 draw was the right result for one of the hardest-fought series in memory. Nearly seven weeks of intense battle, fierce rivalry and knif...
05.08.2025
Cricket fans across the country have been blessed with one of the great Test series between England and India – but now it’s time for a different kind of cricket, as a month of 100-ball contests awaits us once more. August in the cricket calendar now mean...
05.08.2025
Head coach Brendon McCullum accepts England have “room to improve” ahead of the Ashes but believes the intensity of their dramatic drawn series against India will help them meet the challenge. McCullum was honest enough to chalk up the 2-2 scoreline as a...
05.08.2025
Few superlatives remain to describe the five-Test series we have witnessed this summer between England and India. At The Oval, the inconceivable happened one more time, leaving cricket journalists around the world scrambling to cobble together flashy head...
06.08.2025
Place on the plane?: Rehan Ahmed has had a breakthrough season with the bat PICTURE: Luke Adams IT’S SHAPING up to be a memorable season for Leicestershire: promotion from County Championship division two looks a certainty, and a clinical six wicket win a...
10.08.2025
SUNDAY AUGUST 10 THE HUNDRED Southern Brave Women vs Birmingham Phoenix Women (Southampton, 11am) Southern Brave Men vs Birmingham Phoenix Women (Southampton, 2.30pm) Trent Rockets Women vs Northern Superchargers Women (Trent Bridge, 2.30pm) Trent Rockets...
10.08.2025
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10.08.2025
THE CARIBBEAN Premier League (CPL) returns this week, with St Kitts and Nevis Patriots taking on Antigua and Barbuda Falcons at Basseterre. Title holders St Lucia Kings will be captained by Namibia all-rounder David Wiese in the absence of Faf du Plessis...
10.08.2025
AUSTRALIA WOMEN’S captain Alyssa Healy made her comeback from injury ahead of the upcoming World Cup in India and Sri Lanka with an appearance for the Australia A side. Opening the batting in a T20 against India A in Mackay, Healy made 27 from 18 balls as...
10.08.2025
New Zealand seamer Matt Henry continued his sensational form in Zimbabwe, bagging another five-wicket haul in Bulawayo. He followed up his match figures of 9-90 in the first Test, including first-innings figures of 6-39, with 5-40 first time around in the...
10.08.2025
THE ECB are wary of the proposed two-tier model for Test cricket’s future, with ECB chairman Richard Thompson expressing his concerns to BBC’s Test Match Special. “We may go through a fallow period, and that means, what, we fall into Division Two and we d...
10.08.2025
Homecoming: Brad Currie took wickets for Dorset PICTURE: Alamy DORSET, NORFOLK, Northumberland and Oxfordshire booked their places at the National Counties T20 Finals Day after they topped their respective groups in the Super-12s round. They will now go f...
10.08.2025
MORECAMBE CRICKET Club created history when all 10 wickets taken by their 4th XI against Carnforth 4th XI were taken by female players. Playing in the fifth division of the Westmorland Cricket League, a senior, mixed-gender league, they bowled out Carnfor...
10.08.2025
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10.08.2025
IT’S TIGHT at the top of the Birmingham & District League with Smethwick and Halesowen tied on 224 points. Last weekend, Halesowen beat Moseley by five wickets. Matt Pardoe took 5-72 to see Moseley restricted to 220-9. Luke Tulacz then made 69 not out to...
10.08.2025
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10.08.2025
Future stars: Watkiss and Young did the business for Ferring PICTURE: Ferring CC IT WAS youth to the fore for Ferring 2XI in Division 12 West (South) of the Sussex League last weekend as they defeated Southwick and Shoreham 2XI by 20 runs. Batting first,...
10.08.2025
Annie Chave on the life-chain nature of friendly cricket tours My ‘good old days’ belong to the innocence and freedom of my childhood. There are many precious moments that we retain from our childhood, and during the past week I witnessed the making of ne...
10.08.2025
Benny Howell is “excited” about the strength of Birmingham Phoenix’s men’s bowling attack this summer. The Phoenix enjoyed a great campaign in The Hundred last summer. After losing their first game to eventual champions Oval Invincibles, they won all but...
10.08.2025
By Owen Myles Third time’s the charm: Ellyse Perry is confident for this year’s campaign PICTURE: Alamy BIRMINGHAM PHOENIX captain Ellyse Perry hopes to “take on the game earlier” as she heads into her third Hundred campaign and second as captain. The Pho...
10.08.2025
WED 6 AUGUST Southern Brave Women 96-4(Wolvaardt 42*) beat Manchester Originals Women 95-8 (Smale 40*, Bell 3-28) by six wickets Southern Brave started life after Charlotte Edwards with a convincing win over Manchester Originals at Emirates Old Trafford....
10.08.2025
August 7, Headingley, Leeds Superchargers Women 141-4Welsh Fire Women 94 Northern Superchargers Women won by 47 runs Toss: Northern Superchargers won the toss and decided to bat Dominant: Georgia Wareham is one of three Aussies on the charge this campaign...
10.08.2025
August 7, Headingley, Leeds Welsh Fire Men 143-9Superchargers Men 147-2 Northern Superchargers Men won by 8 wickets Toss: Superchargers Men won the toss and decided to field SOME 48 hours after the end of an extraordinary Test series, Zak Crawley and Harr...
10.08.2025
August 8, Edgbaston, Birmingham Phoenix Women 148-5Trent Rockets Women 137-6 Birmingham Phoenix Women won by 11 runs Toss: Birmingham Phoenix won the toss and decided to bat RUNS FROM the in-form Emma Lamb and impressive bowling from wrist-spinners Hannah...
10.08.2025
August 9, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff London Spirit Women 124 Welsh Fire Women 122-5 London Spirit Women won by 2 runs Toss: London Spirit Women won the toss and decided to bat Beginning of the end: Sophia Dunkley’s dismissal brought Spirit back into the game...
10.08.2025
August 9, The Kia Oval, Kennington Originals Women 139-6Oval Invincibles Women 137-3 Manchester Originals Women won by 2 runs Toss: Oval Invincibles won the toss and decided to field MANCHESTER ORIGINALS held their nerve to claim a nail-biting two-run vic...
10.08.2025
August 9, The Kia Oval, Kennington Originals Men 128 Oval Invincibles Men 129-1 Oval Invincibles Men won by 9 wickets Toss: Oval Invincibles Men won the toss and decided to field OVAL INVINCIBLES delivered a clinical performance in The Hundred at the Kia...
10.08.2025
All the signs are that this year will be the toughest, tightest edition of The Hundred yet. The availability of frontline players means there are star-studded line-ups everywhere, and there should be plenty of runs scored in particular. The biggest surpri...
10.08.2025
WEDNESDAY 6 AUGUST Leicestershire 179-4beat Surrey 174 (Patel 53, Sykes 50, Green 5-25, Holland 4-37) by six wickets Alex Green’s 5-25 and Ian Holland’s 4-37 undermined Surrey’s batting at Guildford, where Leicestershire then eased to 179-4 and a six-wick...
10.08.2025
August 7, Utilita Bowl, Southampton Essex 285 Hampshire 288-5 Hampshire won by 5 wickets Toss: Hampshire won the toss and decided to field Impact: Joe Weatherley made a match-winning ton PICTURE: Alamy JOE WEATHERLEY classily struck his third One-Day Cup...
10.08.2025
August 7, Nettleworth Worcestershire 312-7Notts Outlaws 326-9 Match Tied (DLS Method) Toss: Notts Outlaws won the toss and decided to field NOTTINGHAMSHIRE CONJURED up an astonishing comeback to grab a share of the points in a tie with Worcestershire in a...
10.08.2025
August 7, Arundel Castle Ground Kent Spitfires 287-9Sussex Sharks 288-7 Sussex Sharks won by 3 wickets Toss: Sussex Sharks won the toss and decided to field Captain’s innings: Jack Carson led Sussex to a win PICTURE: Alamy A REMARKABLE and unbroken eighth...
10.08.2025
By Mark Baldwin August 8, Woodbridge Road, Guildford Gloucestershire 293-9Surrey 208 Gloucestershire won by 85 runs Toss: Gloucestershire won the toss and decided to bat OLLIE SYKES struck a defiant 97 off 94 balls but Surrey were still overpowered by a f...
10.08.2025
By Andrew Stockhausen August 8, County Ground, Taunton Durham 255-9Somerset 258-6 Somerset won by 4 wickets Toss: Durham won the toss and decided to bat How’s that?: Ogmore shows off the match ball PICTURE: Harry Trump/Getty ALFIE OGBORNE returned career-...
10.08.2025
By Jeremy Blackmore August 8, County Ground, Northampton Yorkshire 374-5 Northants Steelbacks 172 Yorkshire won by 202 runs Toss: Yorkshire won the toss and decided to bat Cherry on top: Matt Revis’s blitz propelled Yorkshire to a record 374 PICTURE: Alam...
10.08.2025
Group A DERBYSHIRE Why they can win it: Derbyshire could go deep into the competition if players like Zak Chappell and Australian opener Caleb Jewell fire. Player to watch: Martin Andersson has played some significant innings in the Championship and this...
10.08.2025
A stats breakdown from England’s epic five-match series with India 56 The number of minutes the dramatic final day lasted at The Oval as India secured the tightest victory in their Test history 754 The number of runs scored by India skipper Shubman Gill,...
10.08.2025
There’s been some talk this summer about Test cricket introducing substitutes for injured players, in light of Chris Woakes’ shoulder injury and Rishabh Pant’s broken foot. Spare me, really. If you want fairness, go and follow something else. Cricket is l...
10.08.2025
The unforgettable final scenes at The Oval gave us more drama than we knew what to do with. And at the end of it, as India somehow picked themselves up off the canvas to land the killer blow, we ended up with the result that felt right. It would have been...
10.08.2025
It is a chicken-and-egg dilemma. Is England’s primary role under Ben Stokes to champion Test cricket or to win glory for the team and its supporters? I ask because they are doing a good job of the first but not such a good job of the second, and that ma...
10.08.2025
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10.08.2025
England's Chris Woakes, who heroically came out to bat last Monday with a seriously injured shoulder, has said that rehab "could be a risk he's willing to take" rather than having surgery in an attempt to be fit for the Ashes, which starts on November 21...
10.08.2025
The fifth edition of the Hundred is now well underway and the competition is beginning to take shape, with games continuing to come thick and fast as teams battle it out for a spot in the top three. With each side having two games under their belt after o...
11.08.2025
The Professional County Cricket Clubs (PCCs) have reached agreements to alter the formats of the Vitality Blast men’s competition, the Vitality Blast women’s competitions (Tiers 1 & 2) and the Metro Bank One-Day Cup women’s competitions (Tiers 1 & 2) from...
12.08.2025