Tag: Leicestershire

Patel powers past Lancs

13 August 2023 0 comments

By Paul Edwards RISHI Patel made a career-best List A score of 161 to help Leicestershire Foxes go to the […]

Cobb’s on top as Kibworth go top

6 August 2023 0 comments

By Adam Hopkins KIBWORTH have gone top of the Leicestershire and Rutland League after winning their top-of-the-table clash with Rothley […]

County scalps for Northumberland and Staffordshire

6 August 2023 0 comments

By Paul Bolton In vain: Colin Ackermann’s ton wasn’t enough for Leicestershire against Staffordshire PICTURE: Alamy NORTHUMBERLAND and Staffordshire claimed […]

Fixtures

6 August 2023 0 comments

SUNDAY AUGUST 6 One-Day Cup • Somerset v Worcestershire (Taunton, 11am) • Northamptonshire v Sussex (Northampton, 11am) • Kent v […]

He was just a scrawny kid, but you knew he was something special

6 August 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS It was always going to finish with Stuart Broad. Those cricketing gods… There I was thinking I’d had […]

Where stars are born (and swansongs sung!)

30 July 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS The return of the One-Day Cup this week stirs some happy memories from last year. Having previously lost […]

From Hinckley home to Headingley haven

23 July 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS What luck I’ve had to have played at so many different cricket grounds all over the UK and […]

Rain robs Tykes of big victory chance

23 July 2023 0 comments

By Graham Hardcastle There was no play possible due to rain on the final day of the County Championship match […]

A thrilling finale awaits

16 July 2023 0 comments

VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN What a time it’s been for England Ashes fightbacks. After the first […]

Middlesex and Northants end with scores level in thrilling draw

14 July 2023 0 comments

Middlesex’s first century of the season courtesy of Sam Robson was not quite enough to secure victory after their LV= […]

For a county cricketer, nothing beats Finals Day

9 July 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS When I played for Leicestershire in the first-ever T20 Finals Day in 2003, few of us knew what […]

Kent pipped by Eagles in last-round drama

9 July 2023 0 comments

Group stage round-up… Results NORTH GROUP JULY 2, DERBY Worcestershire Rapids 222-5 (Santner 64, Haynes 44, Hose 42*, Khan 2-29); […]

Results

25 June 2023 0 comments

NORTH GROUP NORTHAMPTON, JUNE 18 Northamptonshire Steelbacks 177-5 (Vasconcelos 51, Patel 2-23); Notts Outlaws 99 in 14.3 overs (Sanderson 3-29, […]

Quick-footed Yates keeps Bears on track

25 June 2023 0 comments

Midweek round-up… Reports from the ECB Reporters Network North Group Birmingham Bears put one foot in the quarter-finals of the […]

Master Malan sees off Foxes

18 June 2023 0 comments

ENGLAND white-ball star Dawid Malan’s fifth fifty of this season’s Vitality Blast – asuperb 79 off 45 balls – helped […]

KP show was the shape of things to come

18 June 2023 0 comments

Scott Oliver charts the club experiences of another cricketing legend, this time a player who divides opinion like perhaps no […]

Stalwart Stevo’s as good as ever

11 June 2023 0 comments

By Adam Hopkins Evergreen Darren Stevens once again showed that age is but a number after smashing a century for […]

Naseem helps to dig Foxes out of a hole

4 June 2023 0 comments

By Saj Sadiq A chance to play once again in England and hone his T20 skills is something Pakistan pace […]

My all-time blast XI (Please forgive me, Azhar!)

4 June 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS The Cricket Paper asked me to pick my all-time XI for English domestic cricket and it’s been a […]

Steelbacks look to Lynn for a pick-up

4 June 2023 0 comments

By Jeremy Blackmore Chris Lynn made a spectacular return to form with a blistering 106 not out to power a […]

Vitality Blast results

4 June 2023 0 comments

NORTH GROUP OLD TRAFFORD, MAY 27 Lancashire Lightning 208-4 (Mitchell 85*); Nottinghamshire Outlaws 186-5 (Munro 60, Montgomery 41). Lightning won […]