Tag: Hampshire

Mark Butcher: Ben Stokes uncertainty creates England dilemma

6 October 2024 0 comments

As England prepared for the first match of their three-Test series in Pakistan, they were faced with a familiar conundrum.

Season review: Surrey

6 October 2024 0 comments

2024 was about the threepeat for Surrey as Rory Burns became the first skipper since 1968 to clinch the Championship three years in a row.

Season review: Hampshire

6 October 2024 0 comments

Hampshire’s season didn’t quite reach the heights of the recent past and for the second campaign in a row they ended trophyless.

Season review: Durham

6 October 2024 0 comments

I predicted at the start of the season that Durham would more than hold their own in Division One this year and they did.

Season review: Warwickshire

6 October 2024 0 comments

Just as last year, Warwickshire showed much potential, especially in the white-ball tournaments, but fell well short of fulfilling it.

Season review: Leicestershire

6 October 2024 0 comments

It was a season of mixed fortunes for Leicestershire as the men from the East Midlands put up a solid One-Day Cup defence.

Season review: Derbyshire

6 October 2024 0 comments

After disappointing red-ball and white-ball campaigns, you would have to be a glass full kind of person to find any sunshine at Derbyshire.

SURREY STRUT TO THIRD STRAIGHT TITLE

6 October 2024 0 comments

Rory Burns’ side claimed a historic third title on the bounce as they maintained their grip on the County Championship […]

The ECB Premier Leagues’ top performers in 2024

6 October 2024 0 comments

Hugh Newsome from The Premier League Cricket Show breaks down the stats and the standout players from the 2024 season […]

Return of cricket’s Champions League ‘inevitable’

6 October 2024 0 comments

By Richard Edwards Sydney Sixers win the Champions League in October 2012, the last tournament in which English sides appeared […]

A DAMP SQUIB, BUT END OF REGIONAL ERA FEELS PREMATURE

6 October 2024 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS It was a funny old way to bring down the curtain on women’s regional cricket. Saturday at Grace […]

Hampshire tie up second with huge win

6 October 2024 0 comments

By Richard Latham September 26-29, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton Somerset 136 (Kohler-Cadmore 63, Vaughan 29, Abbott 4-37, Dawson […]

HANDING OUT THE GONGS

6 October 2024 0 comments

Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler Tap. Tap. Can you hear me at the back? Thumbs up? Super. Good evening, ladies […]

Local pride at stake as Foxes build lead

6 October 2024 0 comments

By Jon Culley September 26-29, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester Leicestershire 264-8 (Budinger 87, Trevaskis 57, Lloyd 3-42, Wagstaff 2-24, Reece […]

Glamorgan deny Somerset third trophy

6 October 2024 0 comments

By Jon Culley THE LAST LEG of Somerset’s treble bid went the way of the first two as Glamorgan won […]

Weatherley sends wake-up call over scheduling issues

6 October 2024 0 comments

By Richard Edwards ONE WELL-KNOWN former cricketer from the 1980s once confided to The Cricket Paper that it was “something […]

Yorkshire spinner Jafer Chohan named in England squad for Caribbean tour

3 October 2024 0 comments

Yorkshire leg-spinner Jafer Chohan has earned his first England call-up for the limited-overs tour of the Caribbean in a major […]