Ranajit Dhar 
Chennai Super Kings started a run of three home games on the trot with a defeat against Lucknow Super Giants, and having lost the reverse fixture in Lucknow just prior to that, they are suddenly looking at the prospect of slipping down the table. Next up for them: Sunrisers Hyderabad, who were flying high till … Read more
Mady Villiers’ beguiling spin proved too much for an under-strength and out of form The Blaze as Sunrisers raced to a seven-wicket win in a rain-shortened encounter at Chelmsford. The former England white-ball international returned 3 for 18 from nine overs as the visitors, missing the likes of Tammy Beaumont, Bryce siblings Kathryn and Sarah … Read more
Ella McCaughan blasted a half-century to take her past 1,000 Southern Vipers runs and help her side win back-to-back Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy matches. Opener McCaughan was belligerent in her 97-ball 83, with Charli Knott continuing her fine start to life in the UK with 40 – as Vipers totted up 287. Diamonds stuttered in … Read more
Western Storm clinched their first win in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy after defeating Thunder by 66 runs at Emirates Old Trafford. An unbeaten 76 by Sophie Luff capped an excellent fightback by Western Storm who made 252 for 6 from their 50 overs after a superb exhibition of spin bowling by Sophie Ecclestone had … Read more
Ryana MacDonald-Gay’s sensational start to the season continued as she took 4 for 18 to help bowl the South East Stars to a 71-run (D/L) win over Central Sparks in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy match at Beckenham. The Maidstone-born seamer now has 12 wickets for the season after just three matches and a lethal … Read more
Four balls. Four singles. It’s this passage across two Axar Patel overs to Tilak Varma just before the halfway mark of Mumbai Indians’ mammoth chase of 258 that might have cost them two crucial points against Delhi Capitals, in Hardik Pandya’s opinion. Axar, the left-arm spinner, came on to bowl in the eighth over with … Read more
Ben Duckett’s dazzling double-century followed by high-class seam bowling put Nottinghamshire in control against Warwickshire on a rain-affected second day of their Vitality Championship match at Edgbaston. Duckett’s chanceless 218 from 264 balls lifted Nottinghamshire to 400 all out against an attack skilfully led by Olly Hannon-Dalby with 5 for 78. Among interruptions for rain … Read more
David Warner and Ishant Sharma will need another week to regain full fitness, Delhi Capitals’ assistant coach Pravin Amre said after the team’s ten-run win over Mumbai Indians in Delhi. Warner was hit on the finger while attempting a lap shot against Lucknow Super Giants on April 12. He missed DC’s next match, against Gujarat … Read more
A combination of rain and bad light frustrated Northamptonshire after they had taken a solid grip on their Division Two match with Leicestershire in the Vitality County Championship at the Uptonsteel County Ground, where the home side are 356 runs behind on 97 for two in their first innings. George Bartlett, who moved to Northampton … Read more