All posts tagged "Championship"
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County Championships
/ 11 months agoGrounds for concern
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler My local non-league football club were eyeing promotion before the winter flooding. But between Boxing Day...
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County Championships
/ 11 months agoLong live the battle of the bridge, and rip deadly
DARREN STEVENS It was great to see my old team Kent hold out for a draw in the Battle of the...
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The Definitive...
/ 11 months agoThe Definitive Derek Underwood
Derek Underwood, who died last week, was one of England’s most successful spinners ever. A few years ago, he talked us...
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Ben Gardner
/ 11 months agoWhen points and pointlessness combine
BEN GARDNERR NEW COLUMNIST! So was that basically all meaningless then? A fortnight that may as well not have happened? We’ve...
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International News
/ 11 months agoCummins and Sciver-Brunt named Leading Cricketers in the World
Dominant: Nat Sciver-Brunt had a memorable 2023 THE 2024 EDITION of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack was officially launched at the annual...
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County Championships
/ 11 months agoBoland’s spell under threat
Scott Boland is sitting out Durham’s ongoing Championship match with Worcestershire with plantar fasciitis. Boland got through 13 overs on day...
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England News
/ 11 months agoSciver-Brunt named Wisden’s leading women’s cricketer in the world
Nat Sciver-Brunt has become the first English woman to be honoured as Wisden’s leading cricketer in the world, heading an awards...
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County Championships
/ 11 months agoJoe and Jaydn Denly earn Kent draw with Essex
An unbeaten 41 from 18-year-old Jaydn Denly in a solid sixth-wicket stand alongside his uncle Joe helped guide Kent to a...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoFan-tastic!
The death knell for county cricket has been rung many times over the last century but the landscape of almost non-stop...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 12 months agoKashif shows the way
The first of eight South Asian Cricket Academy graduates to get a county contract, Kashif Ali has started the season in...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 12 months agoCA curtails Lyon spell
Cricket Australia’s has capped their star off-spinner Nathan Lyon’s County Championship stint with Lancashire at just seven games. The 36-year-old had...
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Mark Butcher
/ 12 months agoStokes withdrawal paves way for England’s young guns
MARK BUTCHER NEW COLUMNIST! Ben Stokes’ decision to opt out of England’s T20 World Cup defence came as no great surprise...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 12 months agoSimpson eyes south coast success with Sussex
By Dan Whiting John Simpson was in a relaxed but confident mood on the eve of the County Championship season as...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoBurns eyeing threepeat in gaffer Stewie’s swansong season
By Tawhid Qureshi Sitting on the balcony of a plush new stand at the Kia Oval, Rory Burns is a picture...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoElgar and Critchley grind Kent down
By Martin Smith April 12-15, The Cloud County Ground, Chelmsford Essex 530-7d (Critchley 151*, Elgar 120, Garrett 2-80, Parkinson 2-125) Kent...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoHampshire build steadily as Lyon shows his class
By Alex Smith April 12-15, Utilita Bowl, Southampton Hampshire 367 (Dawson 86, Prest 85, Lyon 3-110, Bailey 2-60, Williams 2-49, Wells...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoSomerset collapse leaves dominant Surrey on top
By Mark Baldwin April 12-15, The Kia Oval, London Somerset 285 (Lammonby 100, Renshaw 87, Gregory 50, Steel 4-50, Atkinson 3-57)...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoBears build monumental score as Durham suffer long day in the dirt
By Brian Halford April 12-15, Edgbaston, Birmingham Warwickshire 698-3d (Davies 256, Yates 191, Rhodes 178*, Parkinson 2-206, ) Durham 174-3 (Lees...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 12 months agoNortheast hits the heights
By Richard Edwards “I guess there were times earlier in my career when I threw my wicket away and didn’t kick-on...
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Annie Chave
/ 12 months agoLuddite’s lament
ANNIE CHAVE Our new columnist says that for the good of the game, it’s time to end the civil war It’s...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoThomson tenfer turns it Derbyshire’s way
By Peter Miller April 12-15, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Glamorgan 237 (Carlson 74, Zain-ul-Hassan 35, Thomson 7-65, Tickner 2-57) and 69-4 (Thomson...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoMasood masterclass as Root and Brook fail
By Richard Latham April 12-15, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol Yorkshire 326 (Masood 140, Tattersall 58, Milnes 51, Akhter 5-89, Singh Dale...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoHudson-Prentice the key as Sussex on top of the Foxes
By Jon Culley April 12-15, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester Leicestershire 338 (Patel 87, Trevaskis 82, Hudson-Prentice 5-50, Lamb 2-57) Sussex 282-6...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 12 months agoMasood warming to Yorkshire task
Guy Williams speaks to Shan Masood, a century-maker in Yorkshire’s most recent game, about the year ahead Yorkshire’s promotion campaign to...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 12 months agoOf county and country
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler For many Essex fans, Stuart Turner remains something of a folk hero. Yes, Graham Gooch bullied...
