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Sussex took four wickets in the final hour to put themselves in a strong position to beat Leicestershire at Hove and consolidate top place in the County Championship second division. Off-spinner Jack Carson removed Foxes’ skipper Lewis Hill, makeshift opener Ian Holland and Lewis Goldsworthy after slow left-armer James Coles …

Kent’s reply did not start well as Williams had opener Marcus O’Riordan caught at first slip. George Balderson struck next, pinning captain Daniel Bell-Drummond lbw for nine, while Compton always looked like being the key wicket but he inexplicably tried to slog Bailey and the ball flew up in the …

ICC T20 world ranking: Fourth Best T20 World Cup performance: Semi-finalists (2009 & 2014) South Africa’s route to the semi-finals The Proteas are unbeaten in the tournament. They won all four of their group stage games, despite a scare that saw them win by one run against Associate nation Nepal. …

Speaking in 2007, Duckworth said he recalled hearing BBC Test Match Special commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins “on the radio, saying ‘surely someone, somewhere, could come up with something better'”. “I realised that it was a mathematical problem that required a mathematical solution,” he said. The subsequent Duckworth-Lewis method was first used …

Alex Hartley speaks to Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Motley. Source link

Warner made his T20 international debut in January 2009 and has scored 3,277 runs at an average of 33.43 in 110 innings. He scored 6,932 runs at 45.30 in 159 ODI innings, including 22 centuries. In Test matches he made 8,786 runs at 44.59 with 26 hundreds, including a top …

Watch highlights as Afghanistan win a rain-affected contest against Bangladesh to reach the semi-finals of a T20 World Cup for the first time in their history. MATCH REPORT: Afghanistan qualify for first World Cup semi-final Available to UK users only. Source link

Captain Rashid Khan says Afghanistan qualifying for the T20 World Cup semi-finals is “like a dream”. Victory in a low-scoring thriller against Bangladesh saw Afghanistan make it through to the last four of an ICC global tournament for the first time. The result also means Australia have been knocked out. …

Watch as Australia captain Mitchell Marsh drops India’s Hardik Pandya for five during their T20 World Cup game in St Lucia. Source link

Watch the best shots of Australia’s Travis Head’s 76 against India during their T20 World Cup game in St Lucia. Source link

Livingstone has played in all of England’s matches so far, overcoming a side injury picked up while batting against Namibia. He has taken two wickets and scored 13 and 33 in his two innings in the middle order. The 30-year-old admitted it is hard to find rhythm playing in a …

Watch highlights as India progress to the T20 World Cup semi-finals as they beat Australia by 24 runs in St Lucia. Source link

Watch as Australia’s David Warner is dismissed by Arshdeep Singh in his potential last innings in international cricket against India in St.Lucia. Source link

Watch as Australia’s Josh Hazlewood gets the big wicket of Virat Kohli for a duck during their T20 World Cup against India in St Lucia. Source link

England Test bowler Ollie Robinson has been signed by Trent Rockets as a wildcard pick for this summer’s Hundred. Robinson, 30, is yet to feature in the competition despite being signed by Manchester Originals and Northern Superchargers in 2021 and 2022. The wildcard selections – two for each men’s and …

Find out who is set to play for each team in The Hundred for the 2024 season. Source link

Watch as Moeen Ali’s diving catch removes Steven Taylor to give Sam Curran his 50th T20 international wicket, leaving USA on 43-2 in their T20 World Cup match against England in Bridgetown. FOLLOW LIVE: England v USA – ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Available to UK users only. Source link

Adam Lyth continued his Scarborough love affair with a fourth County Championship hundred on his home ground as he and opening partner Finlay Bean shared 307 to ensure Yorkshire dominated day one against Gloucestershire. The 36-year-old former England opener also scored his fourth hundred of the season as Yorkshire closed …

Fast bowler Olly Stone’s unbeaten 74 led a Nottinghamshire recovery from 190-7 to 326-8 on the opening day of their Vitality County Championship match against Somerset at Trent Bridge. Stone, who began this season with only one half-century to his name in 46 first-class matches, now has two in his …

Captain John Simpson scored his third century of the season to put Sussex in a strong position against Leicestershire at Hove. Simpson came in at 34-3, and scored a chanceless 180 not out in a Sussex total of 431-7, batting almost all day and hitting 29 fours from his 251 …