India's T20 Cricket World Cup winners were finally heading home Wednesday, officials said, after a hurricane in the West Indies delayed their departure.Their last World Cup victory was at home for the 50-over tournament in 2011 under M.S. Dhoni.
Rob Yates, Alex Davies and Jacob Bethell strengthened Warwickshire’s grip on the third day of the Vitality County Championship Division One match with Somerset.
THE Somerset Pathway Under 18 teams have featured some stand out performances the pick of which were from Ben Church who made 163 and Lola Harris who claimed for six wickets for 12 runs.
The Proteas made their final a contest against India and there is no shame in losing after going toe to toe with a titan
In the Anthony Axford North West Cricket League T20 quarter-finals, Blackrod, Lostock, Ribblesdale Wanderers and Whalley made it through to Finals Day.
A cricket match between Greenock and Renfrew was abruptly abandoned when Renfrew's players walked off due to a disputed umpiring decision.
Newport won the Isle of Wight Cricket Board's Brian Gardener Trophy at Newclose.
Former Yorkshire stalwart, 83, to have operation in second battle with throat cancer
GARGRAVE are just two matches away from retaining the Wynn Cup trophy in the Timothy Taylor’s Craven League after an emphatic victory over Sutton.
The Yorkshire and England cricketing great says he will ‘hope for the best’ as he faces cancer two decades after first overcoming the disease
Jimmy Anderson gave England a glimpse of what they will be missing when he is put out to pasture after the Lord’s Test next week, taking seven wickets for 35 for Lancashire against Nottinghamshire – the best bowling figures in the County Championship this year – in his first game for four months. It all left his long-time Australian adversary turned Lancashire teammate Nathan Lyon aiming a dig in the direction of the England selectors.
Ryan Patel’s brilliant 107 built on Jamie Smith’s 70 as leaders Surrey set Essex a formidable 361 to win their top-of-the-table clash.
Robert (left) and Adam Matravers have hosted the match since 2012
There is life in the old dog yet. That much was clear as Jimmy Anderson tuned up for his Test swansong next week with a stunning seven for 35 in his first appearance of the season for Lancashire.
You do not need to be a county number one to be England’s first choice. This, perhaps, is the theme of the first Test squad of the summer, detectable both in England’s preference of Jamie Smith to Ben Foakes as wicketkeeper and their endorsement of Shoaib Bashir, rather than Jack Leach, as spin bowler.
WITH England’s dismal performances in the recent World Cup, question marks are already been sent in the direction of skipper Jos Buttler and coach Matthew Mott and, although I have always had reservations about Mott, the same surely can't be said of Buttler.
Tonge inflicted a first defeat of the season on Anthony Axford North West Cricket League high-flyers Blackrod on Sunday to hand the initiative in the Premiership title race to champions Little Lever.
Taunton St Andrews' senior teams enjoyed a successful and unbeaten weekend of cricket
Worcestershire Women's Rapids have suffered their first defeat of their ECB Women’s County 50 Over Group Three campaign to Cricket Wales.
Helston Community College's disability table cricket team represented the South West in the Lord's Taverners Table Cricket Finals
The bowlers held sway on day two in south London.
Jonny Bairstow, the epitomy of Bazball, has been left out of England’s squad for the first two Tests this summer
The most significant story of the Twenty20 World Cup was not India’s first World Cup victory for 13 years. Instead, it was Afghanistan reaching their first World Cup semi-final. Inadvertently, they also highlighted how half the nation’s population are denied the same opportunities.
Jimmy Anderson will take up a mentoring role with England’s bowlers this summer after making his final international appearance at Lord’s next week. Rob Key, the managing director of England men’s cricket, said the 41-year-old could be in line for a permanent coaching role if it goes well. “English cricket would be very lucky if he chooses to stay in our game,” he said.
England great James Anderson will join the team's backroom staff as a fast-bowling mentor when he retires from Test cricket following next week's series opener against the West Indies at Lord's.England have included three uncapped players in their squad for the first two matches of a three-Test series against the West Indies, with Jamie Smith selected to keep wicket ahead of both Jonny Bairstow and Ben Foakes.